![]() ![]() This consciousness can result from a brush with one's own death or that of another. Yielding to ego-death leads to this consciousness, whether it comes through therapy or a spontaneous near-death experience (N.D.E.) or a closely witnessing death. ![]() It reaches our awareness through dreams (Hypnos) and the flow of our imagination. It is the energy we can use to recreate ourselves in every instant of time. This unformed consciousness-which we often mistake for death- is really the essence of our vitality and life force. We are it and it is our death when it dissolves into the infinite possibilities of chaotic consciousness. It ultimately means the dismemberment of our former personality and life patterns. It is a death because at the deepest levels we define ourselves by this image and what it has created and frozen into our lives. It is in this state that old primal self images dissolve, and from it the new ones form. The crux of this consciousness process is reaching the creative state of undifferentiated consciousness. It heralds a change in the form of consciousness. Ego-death is a requirement for opening to the broader realm of transpersonal reality. The dance of Death is a whirlwind of transformation. The imagery of apocalypse and natural disaster surfaces as the ego glimpses its immanent doom. Thanatos-consciousness may be an encounter with an apocalyptic whirlwind which rends one limb-from-limb, then fragments the sense of self even further down to cellular, genetic, and atomic consciousness. This state of nothingness feels different to individuals, depending on their personal experience with various aspects of death. In consciousness journeys, the dreamer may be sucked through a swirling vortex into a profound blackness-black that is blacker than black-cold and utterly empty. Contemplation of death conjures up images of disintegration, dismemberment, flying apart. ![]()
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