A toast to the next dimension! As it approaches, closer and closer, to the thin surface which divides us from the inner worlds and their perception. The number of words required to describe a graph of higher dimensionality outweigh the ef
fort of simply drawing it, to be seen. The effort required to draw this graph outweighs the simple act dropping ( Read more... )

The miracles and visionary states which form the basis of most of religion have roots in a set of non-ordinary states of consciousness (Grof, 1997).  Many of these non-ordinary states were induced using psychedelic substances (like the amanita muscaria mushroom), many occurred by means of other tools or techniques (like fasting, or meditation), and ( Read more... )

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Because brain volume and the thickness of the cortical layer is positively correlated with intelligence ( Ref...) it is tempting to assume that EEG power, too, is a measure that reflects the capacity or performance of cortical information processing.

It is the meditative radiant selfhood accessed in those moments of ascent which are contained in ( Read more... )

The literal power of the breath is in the combustion of expiration, itself - a process which creates energy and can be focused. The attentional “dive” of a focused exhale can be overwhelmingly powerful; the slower and of greater capacity the breath, the more fueled the combustion, flaring bright and intensely through attention.  In this way, I ( Read more... )

Meditation , I learn more and more, is a practice which can be interpreted very broadly. Any activity, it seems, can be called “meditation” - it seems the state is defined, not by that activity, itself, but by the state of mind one maintains while performing that activity. So walking or sweeping, for instance, may look identical while being ( Read more... )

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Inward mental, the environment as an internal state, a hand within a puppet ( Read more... )