O.K....so y'all are comparing this event to everyone going thru a Shamanic Death.
This I can understand, and I think I have something to add to this end of the discussion.
About the Shamanic Death, and not only recognizing your 'shadow self', but embracing and learning to live with it...I have had this experience.
It happened in 1998...and yes, it was scarey, created fear, but when it happened, it was the most awesome experience, I've ever had, and it changed me forever.
It happened after I had 'won' a major battle in my life.
I stood up to people that had had me 'living in fear' for years.
I knew this was a major showdown and would require much of my Spirit, because the battle was so vicous.
It would have been easy to let Shadow take the lead....but I made the conscious decision to confront that which I feared the most, and to 'stand in the light', while doing so.
It was a 3 year ordeal, of having to do this...not an easy time to keep one's balance, esp. for such a long time.

The Shamanic Death came after it was all over, and I had 'won'.
It was exhillerating, orgasmic, estatic...I've never felt anything like it.
Like suddenly, all the weight was lifted from me, and I felt Joy, like I never had before. A true, deep, inner Joy, and knowledge of who I truly was.
My Spirt soared, and for the first time in my life, I felt 'weightless'. I felt free, and so loved...I've never felt such love before. It was much like being wrapped in a warm loving blanket, and lifted up, into Creator's embrace.
For the first time in my life, there was a light that filled me up, completly...all the pain from the past just melted away like a Winter's snow on a bright sunny day.
My joy could not be 'contained'. I walked around smiling , everywhere I went...and other people noticed it too.
It got pretty creepy for a while, because when I'd be out, strangers would just come up to me and start talking like they had known me forever, and before I walked away from them, they would either kiss my hands, touch the side of my face, or stroke my hair.
It was like I was radiating some sort of Inner Light that others would sense, and be drawn to, like a moth is drawn to the Light.
It was such an overwhelming experience, it had me questioning my own sanity for a year.
It just wasn't possible to explaine to other people what had happened to me, and for them to understand it.
I suddenly realized that my path was not of this 'material world'...it was the path of Spirit, and I was to let 'Spirit guide me', from then on.
I completly abandoned my old life, gave all my worldy posessions away, and started a new life....one that centered around Love, helping, healing,Spiritual life...things 'not of this World'.

This is what everyone will have happen to them, when we feel the full effects of this energy.
I know that it had me questioning my own sanity, so I can see where the experience may be more than what many humans will be able to handle.
It is a profound experience.

I wonder...what will happen to those of us that have already had a Shamanic Death?
Will we go thru another 1?
Is there yet another 'level' to this that is going to happen to us?
I can't imagine anything else that could possibly be more profound than what I've already been thru.....but then, I never knew about the Shamanic Death until it happened, never could have imagined that a Human could have such an overwhelming, life changing experience.