You could think of ego death and ego transcendence as transforming the interpretative software of your brain.

Your are born with this default software program, which is constantly trying to make sense of your sensations, emotions and thoughts in order to stitch it into a coherent narrative of your self and your life.

You can upgrade the software that runs on your brain.

All of your life you have added new apps from the App Store of societies’ conventional institutions: school, tv, friends, family, work.

But did you know you can upgrade your entire operating system and have an entirely new experience of reality?

This is the perennial aim of spiritual practice in 21st century technological metaphor.