by Gabe

Created on: February 20, 2010   Last Updated: February 21, 2010

There are many ways to expand consciousness. Innumerable ways. Some of them are more fun than others. Some of them involve ingesting chemicals. All of them produce changes in the way the brain makes chemicals. I expand my consciousness everyday, by leaps and bounds. You expand your consciousness too, also by leaps and bounds. But it happens all the time. Consciousness expansion comes from heightened awareness. The less you think, the more you observe. The more you observe, the more aware you become. In a sense it's like growing younger, widening perception, returning to a state of wonder.

Meditation

Meditation is a fairly general term for stilling the mind. There are several types of meditation that a favor highly.

1) Brainwave entrainment - You can download Binaural Beats or Isochronic tones to slow down, speed up or synchronize your brainwave patterns which helps induce a meditative state. You can use these tones in combination with other meditation techniques as well.

2) Breath counting - This is an easy way to immediately relax. Become aware of your in and out breath's, counting each while paying special attention to the feeling of air flowing in and out of your nostrils and mouth. You can count your breaths in any manner you choose. The point is to keep the mind focused on your breathing and the counting. Deep breathing is known to lower blood pressure and cause brain waves to slow down.

3) Mantra - Chanting a mantra, which is repeating a word or phrase over and over is an excellent  way to clear the mind. It forces runaway thought processes from the brain and can gradually and quickly lead to changes in consciousness.

Lucid dreaming

Lucid dreaming is the art of becoming aware within your dreams. By learning how to become aware of dreaming you can then learn how to control the dreamscape. Many have compared becoming lucid within a dream to "An orgasm without the mess". Lucid dreaming expands consciousness because only through expanded awareness can one become lucid in a dream. Lucid dreaming leads to lucid living.

Drugs

Drugs are a faster, but temporary way to achieve consciousness expansion. There are too many drugs to list that affect consciousness and I do not advise the recreational use of any drugs, legal or otherwise.

1) LSD - One of the big consciousness expanders of the 1970's. It will lift you up out of the rat maze of ego games into a higher perspective where you can then create your own reality.

2) Psilocybin mushrooms - Less potent than LSD with similar effects on consciousness.

3)Dextromethorphan - DXM is the active ingredient in most cough medicines and also a powerful dissociative. The trick is to avoid chugging massive quantities of  of syrup by doing some simple chemistry to extract the active ingredient from the liquid.

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