The Ego’s Death Trip – The New Inquiry

Recent neuroscientific findings have lent new credence to this fundamental Freudian psychoanalytic concept as well as to the therapeutic value of psychedelics in dealing with it

Recent neuroscientific findings have lent new credence to a fundamental Freudian psychoanalytic concept and to the therapeutic use of psychedelics in dealing with it ONLY recently has “ego death” escaped the shopworn tropes of an appropriated Eastern spirituality. The ego's association with LSD dates to 1964 (if not before) with publication of The Psychedelic Experience , the indispensable acid-trip guidebook penned by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Ram Dass (né Richard Alpert). With the recent renaissance in vetted studies on psychedelics, which has come after a decades-long dark age of Sc

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