How to Rediscover Motivation After Ego Death

Carl Jung on what to do when life feels worthless after spiritual awakening

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What Comes After Ego Death?

So you’ve just experienced what many refer to as an ego death. It may have happened during a spiritual awakening, a crisis, a breakup, a psychedelic trip, or after years of suffering, with the ego breaking open and the light of grace entering you.

However it happened, you felt it. Your old self, the identity you clung to for so long, collapsed. It’s gone. And for a moment, it was peaceful. Even freeing.

But now?

Now you’re stuck in the silence.
No goals. No drive.
No clear vision to strive for.

Just this internal spaciousness that your mind judges as emptiness.¹

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Carl Jung explains why you feel numb, lazy, and hopeless after a spiritual awakening

Why You Lost Motivation After Spiritual Awakening?

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The Void After the Ego Collapse

This is where most people get lost. We think spiritual awakening means glowing forever in some cosmic bliss. However, reality is messy and disorienting. It can leave you lying on the dark, wet floor of your life, internally realizing why nothing matters anymore.

Before planning or pursuing anything, you know that even if you reach that goal, it won't bring you happiness.

Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist who reshaped our understanding of the psyche, understood this state deeply. He called it the persona's death when the mask we wear for society falls away, and we see how much of our lives are scripted by fear, conditioning, and approval-seeking.

But Jung didn’t see this collapse as an end. He saw it as the beginning of something far more real than the persona ever was.

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