The Time of Your Life

The Time of Your Life

If time is so valuable, why are you so unaware of it?

We experience being self-aware almost all of our waking lives. Sometimes we space out, but even then we feel that we were present somewhere. Most likely you’re only here less than half the time...

We “tick” along. The ticks are rather brief, around a tenth of a second for most of our functions, and between these ticks we’re on automatic pilot...

Speed yourself up with amphetamines and your teeth will fall out. Expand your mind with hard drugs and you may be dead before you’re 40. There is an undeniable attraction to living more fully, and, for some people, whatever the cost, it's worth it.

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How The World Changes

We are changing the world using our minds.

Everything I know about insight, intellect, psychology, and the brain’s structure has little effect on how humans act to change the world. We still act the same way, we just do different things...

If I could change the patterns of my thoughts,I might change how I perceive the world. I don’t mean the kind of fluff that passes as “free will,” which I don’t much believe in, but rather how ideas come to me. I’m referring to the voices of insight, inclination, intuition, or similar guidance that precedes intellect, reason, and volition. I’m interested in learning as an abstract thing: the question of how we change when, left to ourselves, we can’t...

I want to talk about what’s going on beneath your thoughts and feelings. I believe you can operate there in an altered state of mind.

Here is a little equation relating our stimulation to our consciousness... Actually, it’s not a simple equation... This equation, and others of this sort, are the source of deterministic chaos, fractals, self-similarity, and phase transitions.

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Your Brain’s Frequencies Are You

This is the last lecture in the course on brain frequencies in which I describe the importance of controlling your brain frequencies and how this affects your mind and health.

Understanding frequencies is the key to self-awareness. Consciousness begins with rhythm. When you learn to manage your rhythms, you become more conscious.

The brain frequencies course is free, prerecorded, and under 2 hours long. It’s available online at the neurofeedback page of https://www.mindstrengthbalance.com, or you can get there directly by going to http://bit.ly/brainwavecourse.

Psychedelic’s Anti-Therapeutic Promise

Psychedelic's Anti-Therapeutic Promise

Psychedelics are quickly becoming a new drug of promise, not for what psychedelics can do, but for what mental health practitioners want.

 

People want various things. Certainly, some do want healing, and some want entertainment, but some also want liberation from the normality that psychology aims to restore.

 

I support the renaissance in mind-altering drugs. They will help those people whose mental realities are stuck. Some of these people are labeled mentally ill, others are labeled psychologists, but most of these are just normal people.

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Deprivation, Meditation, Psychedelics, and Hypnosis

Deprivation, Meditation, and Psychedelics

My approach to trance work grew from my interest in having new experiences and my questions about learning. From this outline you may see how our views compare.

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What makes a vision meaningful?

What Makes a Vision Meaningful?

Meaningful visions require both a transcendent perspective and the addition of your own meaningful ingredient. You have to bring something to add to the pot. If you don’t the pot just offers you visions of the transcendent without any way for you to place yourself in it.

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The Fundamental Question

The Fundamental Question

What would you say is the most fundamental question? Would it be the origin of the universe, or the meaning of life? What about, “Does God exist?” or “Is there other intelligent life in the universe?”

I suggest there is a deeper question that underlies them all. I suggest the most fundamental question is, “How do we understand anything that we don’t already know?”

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How Do You Feel?

How Do You Feel?

It takes a lot of thinking to feel emotional about something. Even the simplest emotion, such as the startle reaction, requires knowing what you’re seeing...

You don’t really remember any “thing,” you build memories on demand to represent experiences you’ve stored away in some coded form. You may think you remember a red car on a dirt road or a friend’s face on a summer evening, but you really don’t...

Here is the crux of the matter: there is much that you are missing. There is much more that you could feel. How do you feel? By exploring the depth and breadth of your emotional repertoire. Can you expand your emotional repertoire? Yes, you can.

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What Psychedelics Can Do

What Psychedelics Can Do

Before moving into the practical territory of preparing for the use of a mind-expanding substance it would be worthwhile to consider what these substances do. I believe that they do just about anything.

Psychedelics can reframe your concept of reality. They can do this to a greater or lesser extent. They can challenge or disable you, or they can do nothing at all. Their potential is largely determined by what you allow yourself to experience, and what novelty you can manage to build into your understanding of the world...

Psychedelics are the parachute jump master that shouts you out the airplane’s door to the open sky. It’s your job to have your parachute packed and to take it from there. What they can do, then, is to show you a larger and older world. This can be a rite of passage or a waste of time.

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Preparing For a Psychedelic Experience

Preparing For a Psychedelic Experience

When you take a psychedelic you are enlisting in a struggle that’s much larger than you can imagine. Depending on who you are and what you take you may find yourself well beyond anything you expect...

You may be responding to an advertisement that says you’ll visit paradise but, once the ship leaves shore, where it goes is not up to you. You will be sent where you are needed...

I’ve written a list of aspects of mind and character that can be approached as separate issues. These are piers on which we build our character. Like a foundation, each pier bears a separate weight...

Each of these aspects can play a role in the psychedelic experience. Each of them should be under your control. You can strengthen each of them through focus and exploration. Consider them as questions and spread the answers out in front of you like a hand of cards...

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