20-01-2014, 07:57 PM
Keith Millea Wrote:Every now and then I am reminded about Aldous Huxley's deathbed injections of LSD.To me,it has to be the greatest experiment ever on consciousness at the time of soul transformation.And,takes more guts than I ever could have.The one problem though,is that nobody will ever know what the experience was,except of course Aldous.
I've never taken DMT before.So,this is an interesting web page on the effects of DMT by people most of us can all recognize.
A quote from Alan Watts
Quote:It's like loading the Universe into a gun, and shooting it into your brain.
~ Alan Watts
Check it out....
http://dmtsite.com/dmt/experience/descri...ience.html
It's a soft spot for me too, Keith.
I agree with the Terence McKenna quote at the top of the page btw, that "one cannot be heard". Deep experiences of this nature cannot be conveyed except to others who have also walked in both worlds. That is why past travellers speak in mysterious terms and symbols. In doing this they are leaving behind them a journal of their travels - although few would be able to see that.
Personally, I disagree with using any sort of chemical or plant substance to act as a "propellant". It's a personal thing, but also a teaching. The problem I have with this approach, is that conscious control of the here and now is lost once you are on your journey. There are - and so far as I can discover, have always been - techniques that one can learn in a disciplined way that achieves the same, or even better results, without any loss of consciousness. You can be fully "there", but also "here" at the same time. There will be no "bad trip". But there will be plenty of trips.
I say better results, because you can control which part of the Collective Unconscious you visit. You need a roadmap to do that, but with training, this is achieveable.
It is a complex subject. One last thing to add, I think, is that there are people who are born with this ability close to the surface. Travelling in that other world is not a particularly difficult transition. For these people it like falling in a swimming pool. Jung developed his own technique for doing exactly this; he called it "Active Imagination". But it's been around in one form or another for thousands upon thousands of years.
Just a personal perspective is all.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14