Ego dissolution
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Intimately related to the ‘unitive experience’ — a profound sense of personal, interpersonal, and existential ‘oneness’. Stace1961 Nour2016 Carhart-Harris2018b
The psychedelic unitive experience is thought to be the core component of a mystical Stace1961 or ‘peak’ experience Roseman2017.
Related to the Buddhist eternalism.
Can be differentiated into two types:
- Incomplete → experience of high anxiety & distress due to psychological resistance or insufficient dose
- Complete → state of surrender, bliss, and union with all things