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| This matrix is related to the stage of delivery, the actual birth of the child.[34] The build up of tension, pain and anxiety is suddenly released.[34] The symbolic counterpart is the Death-Rebirth Experience, in which the individual may have a strong feeling of impending catastrophe, | This matrix is related to the stage of delivery, the actual birth of the child.[34] The build up of tension, pain and anxiety is suddenly released.[34] The symbolic counterpart is the Death-Rebirth Experience, in which the individual may have a strong feeling of impending catastrophe, | ||
| - | This experience of ego death seems to entail an instant merciless destruction of all previous reference points in the life of the individual.[35] | + | his experience of ego death seems to entail an instant merciless destruction of all previous reference points in the life of the individual.[35] |
| According to Grof what dies in this process is "a basically paranoid attitude toward the world which reflects the negative experience of the subject during childbirth and later." | According to Grof what dies in this process is "a basically paranoid attitude toward the world which reflects the negative experience of the subject during childbirth and later." | ||
| - | | + | ...ego death means an irreversible end to one's philosophical identification with what Alan Watts called skin-encapsulated ego." |
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