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Take off your weak flesh husk and let yourself be reborn again as perfect and flawless material, water and soil free from the transient pain of the imperfect world, eternally an unbreakable cog in the most beautiful reality. Give your world to the idols and be rewarded with a true utopia of your own making. A world where your existence is valued. A world where the pain of flesh melts away and leaves only the happiness and beauty. For serving something higher is the true meaning of "humanity". Break free from selfish individual thoughts and follow the way of idolatry, for that is the way of "humanity"!


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Try to imagine forgetting everything: your name, the people you know, the facts you’ve learned, the skills you’ve mastered, the places you’ve been to, all loves, all fears, all desires, all needs, money, language. What is left? A free, floating entity, eternal, self-sustainable and bound by nothing—pure, intelligent light that’s aware of, and connected to, all existence. The soul is life itself; it’s pristine energy, part of the infinite and finite at the same time.

Reaching full egolessness is, of course, quite an ambitious goal. The closest concept we can compare it to might be nirvana, as described in Hinduism and Buddhism, although even enlightenment in this way is still somehow tethered to the realm of humans. Attaining nirvana entails freeing the soul from desire and the causes of suffering, achieving omniscience, and living in accordance with the basic truths of existence. It is this point of reaching this mystical state that most likely offers an experience of ego death and a chance to feel, if only for a brief (but seemingly infinite) moment, what it is to only be.