“You know—we always have this part of ourselves which is always judging, which is always looking at ourselves or other people, over-monitoring,” he told me. “And I was [at that moment] in this place where my ego was just gone. I mean, they describe [it as] ego-death. But ‘I’ didn’t have any place in this. It was just totally shut off.” And for the first time in his life, Mark could feel “there’s no judgment. There’s compassion, an incredible sense of compassion for yourself and everyone
