psychognosis

[Forkbender]

Go for it.










But don't expect results like this within 20 years. :wink:

 

[Dantediv86]

i barely take death seariously do you think i was serious, however we should never "misunderestimate" the power of the mind...oh my god Bush is gonna kill me now

 

[Nomada]

geometry, specially the simplest one
simulating your own death
meditation
writing random words
painting in random forms and colors
not sleeping in over 30 hours
wraping your eyes and dont seeing anything for a whole weekend
writing a nightdream journal, with discipline
no speaking a word for a day
simulating a nervous breakdown :twisted:

 

[????????]

wraping your eyes and dont seeing anything for a whole weekend

hoho I've done this! but not for a whole weekend... I'll give it a try when I'm bored.

If everyone agrees sight is the most important sense (according tot hat pic posted by Random) then the one that would follow would definitely be hearing. When there's no visual input you really appreciate the sound realm.

I have wrapped my head with a shirt tightly so I can't see anything after smoking a joint and after 20 minutes I started feeling like Daredevil

 

[druglessdouglas]

Nomada has some interesting techniques. some of those definately work.especially in combination.
whatever works

 

[Nomada]

isolation tanks, what about those? havent tried though, expensive they are.
unless maybe if you could build one....
thoughts?

i have built a relationship with nightdreamin for the past months. its very interesting. after some time i started getting really strong visuals in bed, and sleeping has ceased to be perceived as inactivity.
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lots of occidental cultures have privileged sight indeed. other cultures have elevated other senses though. amazon cultures hearing for example, take a "look" at ayahuasca...

 

[Nomada]

were all psychonauts. we use plants and potions as tools, am i right? but there are other tools in our tool box. tell us which tool, non chemical, you find most usefull.

i knew instantly what you meant by "non-chemical" but, here's a question.
are there any non-chemical tools for wandering in hyperspace?
for example,
meditation and all of its emanations and shadows can be tools for pychonauts but, is meditation chemical or non-chemical? will lying still, in silence, with the mind focused on a single, or whatever, bound to have chemical reflections in the mind and body in general?
same for not sleeping for 30 hours or so, or sensor deprivation, or studying, or any other activity written on this post.

is a psychonaut chemical in nature? drugs, in this sense, just work different in the causal sense of an altered state in that they have the formality of being ingested through mouth or vein, or whatever.

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has anyone worked with disease for psychognosis?
having fever can make you hallucinate... :shock:
chronic diseases, flu, etc?

i have moderate asthma, and symbolically speaking it has become a friend, a master, a source of pain and fear. for example:
sometimes the asthma's attack is so strong, that i thought i wasn't going to live through it. my heart was racing so hard, i was soooo high from the experience and the medications, hallucinating terribly for short minutes until it would go away.
the hint that whispered to me that this moments could be used for space explorations was that it didn't felt like 5 minutes, it felt like an eternity.

 

[druglessdouglas]

the entire universe is chemical in nature.
what if your in a space/place where no external sources of chemical change can be found, but you wish to continue with the exploration? how do you trigger the internal changes you desire~~?
reliably. not just an effect, but a specific effect. there are as many ways as there are mind sets.
makes for a long title though, dont you think?

 

[GOD]

Consciousness can be changed by using sensory deprivation or sensory flooding or drugs and drugs is the only quick , easy, reliable way .

 

[Nomada]

indeed druglessdouglas

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and yes GOD, you're right. what is so special about 400+ mics and some really nasty dark psytrance that gets the job done?

as hard as i've tried, i cant make any other activity beside psychedelics my psychonautic center

"non-chemical" activities seem to complement this center.

 

[Enivid]

I'd say my tool is intelligence

But there's soo many, too many to mention. I just recently discovered that a cool tool is cannabis and n2o, also Cannabis alone is a good tool. I learned that from Carl Sagan .