In the case of “physical” death, the process of destruction occurs as a result of the exhaustion of the possibilities for the existence of consciousness in the picture of the world, and the Universe “displaces” the consciousness that has become useless beyond its limits, however, in the case of a “crisis,” the initiative to destroy coexistence and the “old” world comes from consciousness itself , which can no longer perceive the hierarchical relations of values ​​established in this world

The state of liberation from various roles, relationships, from the world and from oneself is a form of symbolic death, which is well known to various spiritual systems as the main goal of internal development, while the Death of the “ego” can occur gradually, over a long period of time, or it can happen suddenly and with great force

Resistance to such change and the disintegration of the normal structure of existence have always been an integral part of the transformation process and that is why they form at least some aspects of any initiation ritual, such as the Pagan Mysteries, which were associated with the Great Mystery, where the ritual of ritual drama is combined with ideas about the "eternal" bliss" of the initiates who "joined" the deity through contact with him

In the process of such symbolic death, existence itself changes, and the most fundamental change is the leap from three-dimensional to multidimensional perception and experience, because the very paradigm of existence changes, this is the death of a limited way of thinking or way of life