# Ego Death Created On: 06-07-2023 06:55 pm Up:: [[Mindfulness (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics: [[Personal Enlightenment]], [[Psychology (MOC)]] Related:: --- From a conceptual perspective, an ego death is the distancing of the Freudian and Jungian ego, which is the representation of one’s self-image and dominates how we navigate our lives, and our super ego, which represents the conforming conditions of society and mankind’s manufactured existence. **From an actualized/experienced perspective, it *feels* like the ability to see the world and everything for more of what it truly is**. And from this new lens, **the affordance to then amplify the value of simplicity and alignment with nature in our mind through thought and in our lives through action**. Living outside of an ego death state thrives on the foundational conflict between [[Conforming vs Transforming|conforming or transforming]] influences on our lives.