Absolutely: no
The "ego-death" is one of the most beautiful/terrifying sensations I have ever experienced in life.
I had only ever felt this way one time before having DMT and that was on the verge of death.
At the moment of truly feeling like my physical form was going to end, something beautiful but terrifying happened. after a silly inner dialogue, Family.. Friends.. Those were the two thoughts that came in.
Then suddenly,
nothing.. I was surrounded by an empty space. Like a grenade went off and all I could hear was ringing (ironically DMT does this! sometimes). literally empty space.
What if this is who I am? I thought........................................................................................................A moment of utter-stillness inside of me --devoid of the chaotic (literally crumbling) external world-- came forward.
The scary aspect of this realization was faced for about a minute or two, I was suspended in a kind of limbo between being free/horrified at what the implications of being no-thing meant.
once this terrifying feeling left, what was left was this space. Like my body was on a stage, and my whole life I thought I was the body, but after this experience I saw how I was the stage that was temporarily manifesting as a form, body.
This lasted about three days until someone told me numbers were important to being happy. Almost immediately, upon believing that numbers are actually real rather than a linguistic convention, that this peace left.
No joke, DMT took me back to this place.
in truth, it was not it.
But it was the closest pointer back to the source I have ever found.
"The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon."
It takes you somewhere ineffable, but it is
not the place.
My personal, purely anecdotal, unofficial, off the record (think I covered all the bases lol) opinion is that The spice takes you to the point where you feel like you're dying for real. Facing it for the first time, in the first person! i.e. The death of every form you have ever held onto.
Spice does this so many times you can't possibly even comprehend or remember it all. A switch that basically reads:
"All your thoughts are impermanent!"
gets Switched on, and you get taken somewhere else.. Shocking, Beautiful, terrifying. Every single sense-perception at once, and none of them experienced at the same time. Direction, space, time, combining, and separating simultaneously.
That's the closest pointer I can say about it in words, and it's pretty meaningless lol
How could I regret this? It brought me back.
Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.
-Eckhart Tolle