“Ontological shock” has been a term thrown around since Grusch’s statements.
It is a phrase that seems to hold heavy meaning, but I’m unsure if any of us truly know what it means without experiencing it.
The only thing that comes to mind for me is my own experiences with DMT and LSD. Through those experiences I have felt an ego dissolution, as well as complete disassociation. Those experiences, in themselves and within my own opinion, I would consider “ontologically shocking”. Within those trips I experienced encounters with other entities, complete euphoria, and a firsthand slideshow of a foreign entity showing me how life and everything we know it to be as a malleable form of slime.
Everything about my life completely folded in on itself and became a ball of small green slime. It was then spat into a giant pool of slime and I knew that that pool of slime was a cesspool of experience/consciousness itself.
I woke up the next morning and I was completely shook, and that feeling lasted for months because it felt so real.
But also, that doesn’t make any sense. Or at least I couldn’t make any sense of it. It broke my brain for quite a while and I still hold onto that specific experience as well as other trips.
Yes drugs were involved. But, that is my only example of something that truly shook me to my core and had a lasting effect on my consciousness.
What comes to mind when you think of “ontological shock”?
How do you interpret that phrase?
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