How to Open the Doors of Perception At Will, Without
Psychedelics
“The door to the soul is
unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is
yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.”
-Robert Bly
What if you found out there was a key that would enable you to
open and close your doors of perception at will, void of psychedelics? What if
you found out you not only held the key, but you were the key? Would you unlock the
doors, or keep them shut?
Well, you are the key, and whether or not you choose to enter
through the doors is a choice that, although invisible, is life changing. You
are the vehicle for the trip, consider this but a mere travel summary. And for
a detailed itinerary? Well, that can only be fetched by you -not the part
of you reading this, but the altered dream state part of your consciousness
that will travel beyond the doors of perception to the wildness of the world
where there is a livingness to all things- as it can only be found in a place
with exclusive access. A place where you can travel, but no one may follow -not
even the conscious, waking state version of yourself scanning these very words.
If you have experimented with psychedelics, you most likely know
what it is like to sense the type of “livingness” to all things of which I
speak. Even if you haven’t used psychedelics, though, you almost certainly have
still experienced this same livingness to all things in the world around you to
a noticeable degree at least once, but probably various times as a child -a
moment where the world around you took on a shimmery glow, colours suddenly
appeared brighter, sounds louder and clearer, physical sensations amplified
and, most notably, you could FEEL the world around you.
I am not referring to the physical, touching type of feeling, but
to the intangible, energy sense of feeling where you could almost feel the
luminosity of the world around you within, and you and the luminous rested in
harmony as if you were one. You were present, your perceptions altered, your
senses heightened. In short, your sensory gating channels opened to some
degree, a process more commonly referred to as opening your doors of perception.
Sensory Gating Explained: The Science Behind the Doors of Perception
The
“doors of perception” are the part of our brain and central nervous system responsible for
filtering input from all external stimuli, involving all of your senses
-feeling (both physical and nonphysical), sight, sound, taste and smell. This
process, known as “sensory gating,” enables us to decipher the difference
between “me” and “not me.” Through sensory gating, we are able to manage and
comprehend the constant stream of sensory data from the external environment.
Without it, we would be unable to filter out what matters and what doesn’t, and
all sensory data would touch us deeply and ultimately, we would become
overstimulated and overwhelmed and go “crazy” -according to modern medicine,
that is.
You
see, many of the people who are now referred to as “schizophrenics” have wide
sensory gating channels that they do not know how to close, causing an overload
in stimulus. In indigenous cultures, these people would have instead been
called SHAMANS, and would have been taught how to control their doors of
perception and open and close them as need be. There are ways to begin opening
the doors of perception, or sensory gating channels, without using
psychedelics. Of course, the experience will not be as intense or immediate,
but nor will it be short lived.
Rather,
by utilizing practices that help open your sensory gating channels to some
degree by altering your state of consciousness, you learn to open the doors of
perception into the metaphysical background of the world and continuously
uncover deeper truths to yourself and the world around you. In essence, playing
with the doors of perception in this manner, rather than through the use of
mind altering substances, allows you to do more than have a life changing
experience in which you see the deeper meanings to life for a brief period of
time (i.e. a “trip”), but to change your life where every moment is an experience
in a continuous journey into further, unexplored depths of life.
Listen to Aldous Huxley’s in depth description of the doors
of perception, and the mechanisms through which the mind opens and closes
them here.
Hypnosis and Meditation
“ …those who have experimented with hypnosis
find that, at a certain depth of trance, it happens not too infrequently that
subjects, if they are left alone and not distracted, will become aware of an
immanent serenity and goodness that is often associated with a perception of
light and of spaces vast but not solitary.”
(Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudon 99).
Practicing
hypnotherapy and/or meditation on a regular basis is an excellent way to begin
dabbling into the metaphysical backgrounds of yourself and of the world by
tapping into your subconscious, into otherwise ignored parts of your mind.
These practices help open doors in the mind where things such as past traumas
that are holding you back have remained imprisoned for years, desperately
waiting for you to free them and thus yourself. Meditation and hypnotherapy are
also great tools for getting in touch with your intuition, helping you to see
the bigger picture of current problems, allowing you to focus on the deeper
truths and lessons they withhold rather than getting trapped in the mundane
surface details of your problems. In fact, when observed in this light, they
eventually cease to be problems and are instead rendered avenues of inner
exploration and growth. Here are some guided hypnosis and meditation sessions that
may be of benefit.The Sixth Sensory Channel: The Feeling Capacity
The 6th sensory channel, also known as the feeling capacity, refers
to the ability of humans to feel, as opposed to touch. It refers to the
invisible
type of feeling, as opposed to the feeling sense of physical touch embodying
the ingredients of the five senses of human beings. One is invisible and
subjective, the other solely portrays the mostly objective experience of
physical touching, of feeling the texture of a person or object. The feeling
sense referring to the ability to feel the invisibles describes the feelings
that stir within as we encounter various experiences in our day to day life,
sometimes called a sixth sense, or the sixth sensory channel. To better
understand the sixth sensory channel, consider the following example: you come
home from work and ask your partner what’s wrong.
“Nothing,”
they brashly reply.
But, by the tone of their voice, you know nothing means
everything, and that you better respond with something along the lines of, “please tell me what’s wrong,”
unless you want to endure a silent dinner -one that also evokes a feeling
sense, as the silence speaks volumes and is filled with tension, making you
uneasy- and sleep on the couch that night. Simply put, awakening to the
feeling sense that is not often spoken of as it is not included in the five
senses that we are taught we have, cultivates your feeling capacity, your
ability to feel the invisible, unspoken and unseen meanings of situations, and
of things both yourself and others do and say.
In order to develop your feeling capacity, pay attention to the
way things feel. Interpret situations with your heart first, then your
thoughts. For a deeper understanding of the sixth sensory channel and how you
can begin to reclaim your feeling sense, consider listening to this in
this interview with Stephen Buhner.
Sources
‘Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of
Perception into the Dreaming of Earth,’ by Stephen Harrod Buhner
‘The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell,” by Aldous Huxley
From Collective Evolution @ http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/12/22/how-to-open-the-doors-of-perception-at-will-without-psychedelics/
How to
Detox Your Mind:
Simple
Technique That Can Be Used Anytime, Anywhere
Detoxing
the mind is a very important process. It helps to rid the mind, as well as the
body of potentially deadly poisons that can bring on bad health and other
negative consequences. The awesomeness of meditation is known to quiet down the
“monkey mind” and can reduce depression, make mental functioning better, assist
stressfulness and anxiety and help your brain to age smartly. This helps to
lessen any toxins, which are patterns of random thoughts, or bad emotions that
can strongly afflict chemistry.
Getting Comfortable
and Breathing
Find
a good chair and sit up with your back straight. Make sure that your feet are flat on
the floor. They should be up underneath your knees in position. Place the palms
of your hands on your thighs and then relax your arms totally. You should then
look straight ahead and you don’t have to focus. Take in and notice everything
that is in the room where you are. Take one deep breath and permit yourself to
feel your feet.
Allow
yourself to feel everything from the temperature of the room to your feet
touching the floor, from the interior of your shoes to beyond. Don’t think
about your feet. Just focus on feeling and sensing them only. Look Over Your
Body with Great Attention Take a few breaths and then move your attention to
your calves. Sense their presence with a few breaths. Then move on to other
body parts.
Some
of the other body parts that you should focus on and sense are your thighs,
your bottom against the chair, your abdomen and lower back, your chest area and
upper back, shoulders, arms and hands, then next on to your face and head. You
should let awareness cover your whole body at the very same time. The whole
idea is to scan all of your body with all of your attention. You should also
stop to do a few breaths with each part of the body that you do focus on
specifically.
This
practice is perfectly ideal to help you strengthen your ability to hold not
just your attention, but also, to be able to hold that same attention overall.
Be Thankful To Your
Body for Sharing Your Monkey Mind Thoughts
The
minute that you decide to sit down and get focused you will find that
you may begin to start remembering things and have an urge to act them out.
This can threaten to take away attention from your body. If this does start to
happen to you, what you can do to combat is easy, and that is to silently tell
yourself thanks for wanting to share. Then you should go ahead and divert your
attention back to your body.
If
you somehow get frustrated, your attention gets away from you, and you feel
like you want to quit. Just remain sitting still and stay silent. This
discomfort you feel isn’t from the exercise – it comes from your baseline state
and your underlying illness. This is something you aren’t aware of at first,
when you are away from your body, but the reality of it comes back when you
start to feel your body again. When you become aware of the underlying state,
you are able to fight back and dissolve to get back the energy that you had
lost.
Where Do These
Thoughts Come From?
If
you ever find yourself getting consumed by your monkey mind, the very best thing
to do is to separate your attention away from your thoughts. Try to re-focus on
the present and ask yourself the following question: Who is the one deciding to
think these thoughts? If you had the choice, would you be making these thoughts
for yourself? If the answer is no, you should then say thanks for sharing and
focus on something in the present.
If
you decide to focus your attention on your feet, this doesn’t mean to think
about your feet. It means to feel them and sense them. Attention should be
anchored into your present moment as much as possible.
Use This Technique
Anytime and Anywhere, All the Time
This
technique is something that can be used right in the middle of any stressful
type of situation.
This type of stressful situation can be all about a business meeting or a job
interview. When we tend to get nervous, the unconscious thoughts are being
judgmental, measuring, expecting, and interpreting. This unconscious process
completely zaps our energy and builds up anxiety. Conclusion: Even if you only
take five minutes a day to practice meditation, it will significantly benefit
both your body and your brain. You are psyching yourself up for good things,
and these good things will ultimately improve your health. Having good health
is everything. Remember that it is all about coming back to the present moment
and being able to experience life to the fullest and happiest that is possible.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kelly
Everson (@kellyeverson12) is an American author and MA in English literature.
She is a health article writer who has written numerous articles/online
journals on stretch marks, pregnancy, sleep disorders, female health and joint
pain problems. She is also passionate about health, beauty and fitness. She is
contributing to Consumer Health Digest from 2011. Examiner from 2013, Epochtimes
& Healthline from 2014
From Learning Mind @ http://www.learning-mind.com/how-to-detox-your-mind-simple-technique-that-can-be-used-anytime-anywhere/
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Hello, Really well written blog about meditation.
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