Is this the road to happiness?
Away from "hyper self-awareness", shame, guilt, and negative self-esteem?
>>27547724
OP's /fa/ meet-up pic really shows clothes do jackshit to make you look attractive.
>>27547724
Pretty much being at your lowest point, which happened to me my senior year of high school. Unfortunately I never got to show off my newfound self-confidence.
>>27547724
>>27547795
Thats not what ego death means. All it is is a term used by people who have taken high dosages of psychedelic or dissociative drugs to describe the experience of temporarily forgetting who or what anything especially including yourself is.
>>27547724
Dylann and long neck guy gets me every time.
>>27547724
Yeah I saved this edit a while ago. I chose it because even though they look totally ridiculous I'm kinda jealous they walk around in public like that. I wish I had the courage to let go of my ego like that and just do /something/ without feeling like a piece of shit.
>>27547795
I have been pretty low for about 15 years now. Something this year has sorta clicked and I just don't give a shit anymore and it's pretty freeing to just be able to say all kinds of shit to people and get laughs and feel social. I wonder though if there is another step to losing more layers of negative self-consciousness.
>>27547832
Thats stupid, drugs are stupid.
>>27547767
no, it's just a bunch of autists wearing clothes they can't pull off. if you aren't a moron you can find stuff that will make you look better
Ego death is sort of a spooky temporary feeling that can be achieved primarily through psychedelic drug use. If you've ever hydroplaned in a vehicle, it's kind of the spiritual equivalent of that feeling.
>>27547879
That does sound pretty spooky.
Try reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Also there's lots of him on YouTube .
Here's the cover of his book.
>>27547724
Sounds more like you're talking about being in a coma.
>>27549698
The past has a whole hell of a lot of power over the present moment, given how much it's done to shape your personality and outlook. Eckhart Tolle and other spiritual gurus spout lots of empty-headed rhetoric that sounds meaningful until you actually examine it, and then it's clear that it's nothing more than wishful thinking. It's basically "just b urself," except that instead it's something like "just b present." Both concepts are equally ill-defined and useless.
>>27547835
who's dylann
By doing a lot of drugs. At one point I was convinced my emotions manifested itself into different people and all the things I've done in the past that made me hate myself was a result from one of those people hijacking my body. Other moments, I was convinced I was one of those manifestations and that I was free from the burden my sober self carried. It was temporary but it felt like I achieved true happiness.
Try to get into Buddhist meditation, OP.
There are so many different types of this and I'm only barely beginning so I won't post anything because I'm probably wrong. Hit up /lit/ though, there are some people there who really know their shit.
awww babby's first trip
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>>27552033
whats going on with these names
>>27547832
/thread
This is the correct answer. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't had an ego death and is simply ignorant of what an actual egodeath is/feels like.
I've had a thing while under hypnosis where I wasn't really consciously thinking or self-aware, just experiencing a stream of sensory input like how an animal must feel, not making any logical thoughts or judgement, just feeling/seeing/hearing/smelling/tasting
shame and guilt aren't exactly my problem lets just say but it does put things into perspective that there's more to existence than your own identity
