Chapter
Exploring the Role of Ego in Our Lives
1:42:00 - 1:46:52 (04:52)
The speaker reflects on a powerful lesson about the role of ego in our lives and how our ego keeps our unconscious at bay, but realizes that there might be another ground to plant our feet besides our self-interested ego. The speaker experiences a sense of dissolution in their identity, leading to a lesson that personal identity is not a fixed category.
Clips
The speaker describes a moment of losing their ego and sense of self, but remaining calm and unaffected.
1:42:00 - 1:43:50 (01:49)
Summary
The speaker describes a moment of losing their ego and sense of self, but remaining calm and unaffected. They compare it to their identity being scattered like slips of paper or spread out like paint.
ChapterExploring the Role of Ego in Our Lives
Episode#313: Michael Pollan — Exploring The New Science of Psychedelics
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker reflects on a powerful lesson learned about the role of the ego in our lives and the idea of finding another ground on which to stand.
1:43:50 - 1:46:52 (03:01)
Summary
The speaker reflects on a powerful lesson learned about the role of the ego in our lives and the idea of finding another ground on which to stand. Although they have a mystical experience with music, their ego quickly returns to its usual ways of keeping the unconscious at bay.