Psychological Death

What does it mean to die before you die?

Focus:

• Psychological fragmentation (e.g., trauma, grief, ego death)

• Fear of annihilation vs. the relief of surrender

• Rebirth through breakdown (shamanic death, dark night of the soul)

• Psychedelic and spiritual experiences as simulations of death

• Dissolution of personal narrative and social identity

Optional Cheatsheet: “The Death of the Self: Collapse, Crisis, and Renewal”