altered states

been reading about this stuff for my work and from what i found the neurological research is pretty limited on specific planes like you mentioned. Most studies focus on general meditation states rathe…

Global Policy Journal: “Don’t look up?“ – Why it is past time for serious holistic research into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — Karin Austin, Michael Bohlander and Kimberly S. Engels have contributed an excellent article to the Global Policy Journal. Two of these people I've met personally and they are experiencers who are doi…

Everything we know about shifting is probably false — So much of our communities take the knowledge we spread to be fact, when in reality shifting isn’t a science. At all. This has been said before but I NEED you guys to actually read and internalize thi…

NHI that Stop Time and Timelessness of the Oversoul; More Research that Supports how Aliens Obscure Human Memories. — Hi everyone. This is [me](https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/comments/1ai4nzi/i_had_26_physical_contact_events_with_grey_aliens/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_c…

Started gateway this week. I’m confused — Hello! I admittedly don’t have the most knowledge about the gateway tapes. I’ve listening to a couple podcast episodes about them but it sounded like this intense experience where you will astral pr…

The most serious use of lucid dreaming that nobody talks about: training to die — Most people start practicing lucid dreaming to fly, explore, have experiences physics won't allow. I did too. But I've come to think that's the most superficial application of the practice, and ther…

New here — Hello friends! I’ve been researching altered states of consciousness for some time now and found myself here. I’ve always felt there was more to life than what meets the eye and I feel called to explo…

I cut wood from an ancient burned tree, watched it burn on LSD, and 100s of grey alien faces emerged from the embers sending me 🫶. Has anyone else experienced this? — I need to share this because I can’t stop thinking about it and I want to know if anyone has had anything similar. A friend and I went camping in the Australian bush. Before the trip started, we chai…

I cut wood from an ancient burned tree, watched it burn on LSD, and 100s of grey alien faces emerged from the embers sending me 🫶. Has anyone else experienced this? — I need to share this because I can’t stop thinking about it and I want to know if anyone has had anything similar. A friend and I went camping in the Australian bush. Before the trip started, we chai…

Stuck for years? A tip for the overthinkers/hyper analytical types — I’ve just made a breakthrough that I believe can help other people in the same situation. I’ve been trying to AP for years now with mild success, and I’ve just realized that one of the things that ha…

Insatiable curiosity about an occurrence from the past — I’m not really sure how else to phrase the title, so I apologize for that in advance. As it stands right now, I’m not a huge psychonaut. It’s an aspiration to be able to be one when and where it fits…

Try to meditate and breathwork, like easy rythms, maybe later controlled hyperventilation. So u get a hint of what altered states might feel like. Know what you wanna experience if you alter your sta…

EVERYONE dreams. It's a believed part of neurological function. It's how you wake up, in phases which determines if you can rescall them or not. Dreaming has absolutely nothing to do with Aphantasia…

It's possible to astral project with some degree of OCD, because I have. It's helpful if it doesn't bother you all the time though. For instance, mine typically bothers me when I'm going to go out and…

All the time lol. But a thing that helped me was altered states of consciousness.. when i'm sober it feels like playing pretend... when I'm very sleepy or drugged, it all feels a little more out of my…

Your questions: Future instances/Priming your mind? Yes. Retrocausal activity is something that i've experienced and it appears that something beyond our linear arrow of time is involved in our growt…

YES! This!! The altered states definitely feel more in tune vs waking consciousness. Even sober if I play binaural beats and meditate some crazy things can happen lol. Did you take the vaccine or no…

NDE’s, ancient history, quantum mechanics, geometry, neuroplasticity, the list goes on. I’ll give you two examples, one can you try for fun right now. Look up at your cieling or a blanket or something…

My safeword since day 1 has always been "Come back home," and it works instantly. I say my safeword, and instantly my eyes pop open in my CR. My shifts have mostly been through luck and chance. When…

I could see them like right in front of me. At night and day too. But only in altered states.

Show me a "true shifter" who has shifted from "doing nothing." There are no credible success stories that come from "I just decided to shift and did it, I didn't need to do anything." Pretty much all …

The focus levels are tokens for learning, I think once you’re in that initial deep meditative state then just go with what ever comes along. The initial practise is to make that first step easier and …

There is a series of tapes intended for OBEs no? The gateway series is meant to teach you how to induce altered states of consciousness required for OBEs and such to occur by yourself. OBEs are not my…

I come from that community. Honestly, their main focus is on shifting through lucid dreaming, astral projection, altered states of consciousness, meditation, and other methods. Yeah, obviously the Law…

I think I will! Although I’m still a bit scared of it tbh. I knew what lucid dreaming was and I’m interested in these kind of topics but I just never thought I would be able to experience it. I’m very…

Your question about how we actually find that out made me think of a scene from doctor strange. “But… even if my fingers could do that, My hands would just be waving in the air. I mean, how do I get…

I completely understand where ur coming from. I’d say (and this is my approach too as a neurodivergent person), forget about convincing ur mind and focus instead on altered states. The only thing u sh…

You’re describing a limbic system overload. After 5 years with the Gateway Tapes, your brain has automated access to altered states, but you've lost your 'neural grounding.' The dread and panic are ph…

What they should preface in school is everything you learn there is secondary knowledge. You don't really know until you've experienced it yourself. The rest is faith. Far too many base their life on …

So I don't know specifically about Machine Elves kicking people out specifically, but one thought occurred to me as to how / why such a thing could conceivably happen... I don't remember where exactl…

Oh yeah my ears ring 24/7 and I have achieved altered states of consciousness by focusing my attention solely on it.

I think it's understandable that everyone experiences and believes something different regarding altered states of consciousness because of their personal experiences and belief systems. What's aggrav…

It's like two totally different worlds. A Dream you have various degrees of control over your surroundings , like a video game. A project is like traveling somewhere you have likely never been. But …

From Google: Gateway patterning is a technique within the Monroe Institute's "Gateway Experience" that uses focused intention, visualization, and altered states of consciousness to manifest desired ch…

begin your journey with the gateway program, it’ll cover everything you need to understand (on the most fundamental level, without distortion) it’ll teach you the concepts, techniques, and practices…

In addition, this person's AP advice is also bad AP advice lol. For the majority of people you don't just "meditate and let go" to AP. Most reliable methods use altered states of consciousness/mind aw…

I wouldn't refer to what's taught in the books as 'his methods' as he's a student of Rosicrucianism and the methods / techniques taught are thousands of years old, but yes people have had a lot of suc…

This is not the "classical psychedelic" sub as far as I know. It is a sub about exploring altered states. That being said, you are right, they should not do it. It is potentially dangerous and unhealt…

For me, these kinds of posts and comments give me an uneasy feeling and a bit of anxiety. It makes me wonder how so many people can struggle for years without any real success. I like to think that so…

Just want to hop on here and say that the being high in my opinion is actually argument FOR this having actually been telepathy as opposed to against. Altered states, like the dream state or drugs, r…

I'd just keep working at it and practising, and as you do, your level of awareness will increase and you'll get more used to working with different altered states. When you astral project, you're on d…

i’ll probably get downvoted for this but it’s because shifting is a practice that requires tremendous amounts of mental training, meditation, effort and focus despite what people say. at the end of th…

This is basically a guide to inducing altered states and calling the result “alien contact.” Hypnosis, regression, channeling, CE5, “quantum healing,” “cosmic internet,” “Arcturian frequencies” — none…

You sound like an AI, honestly. It might not even be the case that you’re ACTUALLY using AI for posts/responses, but maybe it’s that your very own mind has become computerized, robotic, AI-like: Why…

Why can't people stop themselves from making ad hominem attacks when you disagree with them? Eh ? But you're practically pathologizing the demand for clarity, when it should be the primary criterion i…

OK, points respected and understood, including that I’d like to apologize, in response to the opening words of your response, if I *did* employ an ad hominem attack on you just for you disagreeing wi…

It is a lot easier for ETs to contact us in those altered states. It might lead to ET contact but it isn't a guarantee. I think a lot of research went into these methods. And a lot of them ha…

There was a Western buddhist meditation teacher who was musing that maybe him and his generation of meditation practitioners should come clean about how they discovered meditation: by doing psychedili…

As per my experience, psychedelics reinforced my [neo-atheist ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism)stance. Especially after my most recent experience with psilocybin. As for what happened, le…

I'll be honest.... even reading a war and peace sized trip report is boring AF (to me) let alone watch someone. It's like listening to someone's dream only that someone is a stranger. Nope. But aga…

Thank you so much for this response, genuinely. Its you, and only a small handful of others who actually engaged with what I was saying. Everyone else seemed to read "watched a movie on mushrooms" a…

(Here’s a post I wrote about this a while back)  How to turn an LD in to an AP: So last night I wanted to AP just from intention, no exit from body method like I normally do. I find that the “method…

For me, this was the most useful breakdown in terms of focus that I've come across so far. Thank you for sharing. I have been having a hard time with the particular things you describe, because my s…

Gateway Tapes are Kind of self hypnosis. You use them to set triggers in your mind a) u can utilize to quickly enter altered states of consciousness and b) u can use in waking life to have better Cont…

Through my own empiric research, I've come to the conclusion that psychedelics, psychosis, and other altered states of consciousness, give course to certain emergent phenomena in the brain, that shows…

I actually started a whole project based on my experiences from meditation and altered states. These days I spend more time on daily entries than features and full illustrations. Here is the section o…

So. Fucking. True. I also have noticed that a good number of people who are into LOA are younger folk, sometimes even teenagers. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but they are literally k…

I can't really help you with that. I still hadn't managed to shift to my DR completely. But I think the key is in altered states. That's what I'm trying to reach. Unfortunately, all my shifts were acc…

I can definitely relate to all your pain points. First, remove the need to “do” anything. Minds like ours struggle with things like this because we thrive in step-by-step actions that have clear feedb…