Ty, can you elaborate on this "dying to self" you mentioned? I find it alien to my Judaism. It sounds "Eastern". I think I can get it through drugs or meditation or numerous other ways. But I don't see it as the Holy Spirit. My feeling in Judaism is like an establishing/integration of my ego/self in relation to the separate God. I wonder if when you have died to self, does this mean that you have merged with God? I can also ask this to Jews who are involved in Kabbalah.
Thank you.