The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 21 of 254
Spiritual selflessness as a freak pathology
The environment seems real but unfamiliar, but they know that they are. What is it that Descartes said? I know that I am, but what is this I that I know?’ This sounds very similar to Suzanne Segal’s far longer-term experience, and to the kind of state of selflessness that many spiritual seekers aspire to. Isn’t it strange, however, that the very same state which people aspire to achieve through spiritual discipline can be created by what, under the lens of neuropsychology, is a freak pathology?