Dear Christy:

Thank you for your threads, it is a learning experience for me, therefore I hope this thread stays active for a long time. (Thank you Peter, again, for your input, it is helpful to my understanding).

This is what I understand at this point about the term “ego death”-

Death is the permanent ending of something (by definition). Ego is the attachment one has to  beliefs that are not objectively true.

Ego death then is the permanent ending of one’s unquestioned attachment to one’s beliefs that are not objectively true.

This means that the beliefs that are not objectively true still exist in one’s brain and sometimes a person feels attached to them, but the attachment is no longer of the unquestioned kind. It has been questioned and a space has been created between the beliefs and the self (who I was before I believed what is not objectively true and who I am when not believing in what is not objectively true), a space of calm, and so the person already has the calm experience of that space and can return to it.

Do you agree with my understanding?

“The day of my ego death started like any other. I was ‘Christy’. I knew who Christy was.. I had to adhere to all the beliefs of Christy. If another challenged those beliefs I had to defend them. Then in a blink of an eye all that was gone.. It’s been about two months.. since my unexpected ego death”.

I wonder, Christy,  how ego death has affected how you view your parents, if you’d like to share?

anita