When Experience Challenges the Deepest Sense of Self
Cuando la experiencia desafía el sentido más profundo del ser
A reflection on how profound experiences can unsettle one's most fundamental sense of identity, and the ways the ego attempts to contain or control what has been encountered.
When Experience Challenges the Deepest Sense of Self
A reflection on how profound experiences can unsettle one's most fundamental sense of identity, and the ways the ego attempts to contain or control what has been encountered.
You could then just spend a lot of time denying the experience, going down the rabbit hole. For some people, it was incredible, but they are not going there again. It challenges the most profound sense of self.
Right, because it can hit you in a good way or a bad way. How do you know? You can't know for sure. I guess something tells you intuitively that it's the right time.
It could not go well. It depends on the person who is receiving it.
I don't have enough experience from the side of responsibility to know the effects and how well it can go.
The ego's containment strategy
At worst, the experience can be contained within some interpretation, controlled and explained by the ego, mapped in a way that keeps it under control. By "under control" I mean not really questioning very deeply what that was, and what you really are. Because it is basically one of the closest experiences you can have to something that is divinity.
Beyond humanity
And "divinity" is a word, of course. It points to that which is beyond and above humanity. So it is still within a dual perspective, but it questions the sense that what you are is known as your current experience.