Dissolving the ego: you don’t need drugs or a church for an ecstatic experience that helps transcend the self and connect to something bigger

in phobosanddeimos •  7 years ago 

Read "ego" as "repetition compulsion", or "small mind", and you start to see an overlap between Buddhism and psychoanalysis.

https://aeon.co/essays/religion-has-no-monopoly-on-transcendent-experience

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