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First question: If your consciousness is a manifestation of who you are, is it somehow attached to your ego?
Psychedelic experiences would indicate no — a big part of the fear and anxiety that can manifest in a bad trip results from the dissolution of one’s ego — a profoundly disorienting experience for those not prepared (set and setting, folks; these aren’t recreational drugs).
If true, this would seem to open up a deeper question, one that will send us down a very deep rabbit hole indeed.
If consciousness is not attached to our ego, and can be fully experienced separate from our ego, then what is it?