This happened about 7 or 8 years ago. Honestly after that event happened, I did not really hang around him as much and we grew apart. Not sure what he is doing now.....

I guess my interpretation of ego is with a slightly layered approach. When I think ego I beleive it can be divided into 3 parts, the ego, the super-ego and the id (unctrollable self). The very first one, the ego, is the core of a person, their identity, IMO. So when I think ego-dissolution, I am thinking of the complete disconnect with your very core, ones very identity. I am interpreting what you are desiring to attain in ego-dissolution retains ego, but clears out the super-ego and id components so that you are open to a new venues of logic and thought. More of a breaking the shackles of your current state of mind.

Sorry if I muddied the waters a bit with my first post.

I think that using a drug overdose to attempt to alter perception in a positive manner is a shortcut through the hard work and time that must be put into the same goal via meditation. I had a music instructor that told me whenever I try to use short cuts in my learning, I could get burned. Drugs are bad, mmmkay?