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Everything Is Mind (w/Dr. Bernardo Kastrup)

The ZDoggMD Show

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The Effects of Psychedelics on Ego Death

Psychedelics are the best model of death we have because it seems to reduce the dissociation. When you're released from the ego and join the sense of unitary consciousness, which mystics report it, people have had peak experiences with they report it randomly. It's a deep bliss and release. So I take very seriously ego dissolution as the best gas we can have to what death will feel like. Psychonauts know that if you don't resist ego dissolution, if you just let go, is very easy to say, very hard to do. But you can get to a point where that's natural. Even neuro-science itself is telling us today that there's not absolute time

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