Joe Rogan Describes A Glimpse of His True Self

Category Death, Ego, Enlightenment, Surrender

What would it be like if you fell into a pitch black void?

Your eyes couldn’t see anything in the darkness. Your ears couldn’t hear anything in the silence. Your mouth couldn’t taste anything in the emptiness. Your skin couldn’t feel anything in the blankness. Your nose couldn’t smell anything in the nothingness.

It would be just you and your thoughts… but “you” are your thoughts so if the thoughts then started to subside, what would be left?

What’s beyond physicality, beyond thought?

Joe Rogan, stand-up comedian and commentator for the UFC, talks about such an experience.

Check out this video of him talking about being inside a flotation tank.

One of the biggest and most central aspects of his experience, IMHO, is how he mentions that “he” literally disappeared the more he surrendered. It wasn’t “him” having the experience for there was no “I” there any longer.

The separate self falls away and he becomes One with the nameless. In this experience arises the fear of death, which is really “death” of the illusory separate self, a false self which was never real in the first place.

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7 Responses to “Joe Rogan Describes A Glimpse of His True Self”

PeaceLoveJoyBliss said:

This reminds me of an experience I had several years ago with Holosync, second level, where I lost all sense of boundaries, relaxed into a moment of sheer terror, before settling into a unitary, eternally-felt experience with the pure witness.

Ariel Bravy Reply:
December 26th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Ah, cool Christopher. I’d heard about Holosync before and it’s cool to hear what kind of results you’ve gotten from it.
Jonathan said:

So nice, so much space, it’s so utterly beyond what I can describe. There is the feeling of no identity that’s typing the words, then a flash back in to the identity, then disassociation. So hard to convey what I’m trying to say, gratitude and love for what is right now loll

Ariel Bravy Reply:
December 26th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Florian said:

It’s funny to hear how Joe keeps repeating that once he let go and relaxed into oneness, “it’s not you anymore” when, spiritualy speaking thats as close to the real “you” as it can get

Ariel Bravy Reply:
December 26th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
lol yeah, it’s such a perfect example of identification with the false self.
Davidya said:

Thanks for sharing this. And that’s the key point here – he had the experience of being without ego but remained with it, relating to it from that. Had he shifted from being a person experiencing the silence to being the silence experiencing the person…

It’s noteworthy how he described fear and it being like death. Given the discussion over on “Kill Your Ego”, I was amused. ;-)

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