"This talk page is actually a fine example of how ego manifests itself and what abandonment of ego would entail.

Ego manifests itself as separation and requires conflict.
It believes that it contains a unique or sole definition of what constitutes truth.
Acceptance or understanding is its antithesis.

For instance, I could look at an entry on this page and believe that it is wrong.
That would be activated by a prior memory and could possibly be accompanied
by a feeling of tension or hostility due to a strongly held contrary belief.

Belief is nothing more than an identification with a thought.
The creation of a sense of 'self' from a belief is one way that ego is created and sustained.

Ego death is not an altered state of consciousness.
If you want an altered state of consciousness then continue to perceive the world through ego.
It will create states of elation, depression and enemies where none exist.
You do not have to look far to see that egocentricity is becoming a national epidemic.

Whereas reality is simply seeing the world without a 'point of view'"

"when the lamb opened the seventh seal" :)