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**DuePew** · 01-18-2008, 10:47 PM

Going back to ego death, I am going to make a bold statement and prob. everyone here will disagree with me, but to me the 'fear of ego death' is something the ego has created to cement it's belief in self-existence.
I really don't think you can have ego-death- you can evolve your ego to the point in which it realizes it doesn't have the type of reality it thinks it has, but it can never be destroyed in the sense of ceasing to exist. If your ego really dies it had to be objectively real in the first place, and it never was.
I believe this is why Carl Jung spoke in terms of 'ego emergence' instead of 'ego death'. But I could be wrong about that.
JMO, don't throw things at me.

01-18-2008, 10:47 PM	#9
DuePew Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 634 Senior Member	Going back to ego death, I am going to make a bold statement and prob. everyone here will disagree with me, but to me the 'fear of ego death' is something the ego has created to cement it's belief in self-existence. I really don't think you can have ego-death- you can evolve your ego to the point in which it realizes it doesn't have the type of reality it thinks it has, but it can never be destroyed in the sense of ceasing to exist. If your ego really dies it had to be objectively real in the first place, and it never was. I believe this is why Carl Jung spoke in terms of 'ego emergence' instead of 'ego death'. But I could be wrong about that. JMO, don't throw things at me.
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