Inyash Brodsky

And they're like, no, we are the anti of that.

The ego is important and we need to be sober minded, non-ego killing, non-falling back into the mass of the rest of society.

Die first, kill the ego.

I don't know if I've experienced it because it still seems like such a strange concept of ego death.

But a lot of people say they get ego death under psychedelics.

It's interesting because we were just saying how we don't want to kill our ego permanently.

And yet it seems to be an important part of many religions.

Yeah.

Andrew, have you ever seen the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion?

No, I haven't.

Okay.

It was a formative anime in the history and still considered like a huge cornerstone in anime.

But spoilers for something that's over 25 years old now.

Ultimately, it's a story about...

reverting all of humanity to a pre-Eve consciousness, like just merging back into one.

And it actually has two endings, a happy ending where the main character accepts this and merges into the full pre-Eve consciousness gestalt, and a sad ending where he rejects this and is left back on the shores of humanity as an individual in his own body, and with most of humanity having moved on

past him but has extremely heavy christian themes all throughout there is there is lilith there is eve there is the angels are the enemies that are always coming to humanity to try to reunite our consciousness maybe in some interpretations there's a lot of interpretation you can put on this anime uh but i i i thought of this when you quoted uh joseph campbell the the writer of the um

The Hero's Journey, that there's a primary polar tension of consciousness of duality against an earlier but lost knowledge of unity that is still pressing for realization and may indeed break through under circumstances in a rapture of self-loss.

And I want to rewatch that anime now, thinking explicitly of the Eve Theory of Consciousness and our early human roots.

And it seems like we still have... Like, we aren't all the way evolved yet.