TIPS ON LEARNING TO ENTER AN ALTERED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

For the work being done on this site, it is necessary that you enter a neutral altered state of consciousness not confined to your body.  By that I mean that you have not concentrated on your body and gone within it to gain knowledge.  This puts you in a box. 

There are many ways that one can enter an altered state of consciousness.  I am going to list as many of them as I can think of.

1. TRADITIONAL MEDITATION:  By traditional meditation I mean going to one’s body and concentrating on the hands, feet, legs, etc.  Some people use meditation daily.  If this has allowed you to see spirits, other worlds, species of other worlds, etc. and you are able to communicate with them, then you are fine.  Be careful that your intent is neutral.

2. NON-TRADITIONAL MEDITATION:  This method follows the traditional form in that you begin by feeling awareness.  This time you don’t go to your body, but to the Earth.  You replace your hands, feet, arms, legs, and etc. with the Earth’s oceans, streams, mountains, deserts, and as your deepest center, her magma.

3. USE OF THE EARTH’S HEARTBEAT:  For those of you that can feel the Earth’s heartbeat, use that as you would a drum.  Go to the beat and allow yourself enter an altered state.  Sit on the Earth and let her heartbeat rise within you and go with it.

4. UN-FOCUS:  In this method, you do not concentrate on anything.  You just let go and un-focus.  You let what needs to come up, to do so.  At first it may just be junk from your mind/ego that you need to let go of.  How much of this comes up depends on how much baggage you are dragging.  At some point, you will cease to have this static and find that you aware in a totally different manner.  You are in an altered state.  This is the method I use.  I just un-focus and go.

5. USE OF CDS AND MUSIC:  Michael Harner’s Center for Shamanic Studies sells a series of CD that are geared to put you in an altered state.  You can find them here: Audio CDs .  Sometimes, you can find them for sale in New Age Stores or other Music Stores.  The drumming tapes are the biggest sellers, but I personally prefer the Didjeridu CD.  You can also use tapes of sounds of nature such as the Ocean, Waterfalls, Whales, Jungle, etc.  The most important thing is that each part be about 8 minutes or longer.  Listening to them via headphones with a blindfold on helps.

You will know that you are in an altered state as your reality/awareness shifts. When you are able to see spirits, deceased relatives, and non-Earth species then you have learned to put yourself into an altered state.  At first you may find that it appears that you are looking through a very thin veil or gauge at these, but with time the veil will disappear and you will see them as clearly as anything else you see.

The most important thing to realize is that these spirits are not going to harm you as long as you have formed neutral intent and remain without fear.  Those two are very important.  You communicate with these souls via telepathy. 

These are the methods I can think of now.  If any of you use another one, feel free to share.  Remember—neutral intent and lack of fear.  If you fine yourself afraid of what you see, go back to the audio that talks about letting go of fear and work on that for a bit. 

You are going to see things that do not look anything like what is seen on Earth.  If your intent is neutral and you are not afraid of differences, you will be fine.  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and some species are quite different than we are.  I always wonder what we look like to them?  We must appear quite ugly.

Above all, don’t let your mind/ego throw you back down into fear mode.

Have fun.  Learn acceptance.  Show compassion.  

diana

Tashina said:

D,

What I do is plunk my self outside and just let myself relax and drift. Would this count as as altered state? You mention seeing  other beings , This has happened for quite some time, usually as I'm drifting off to sleep, I see images sometimes not clearly and I swear this is the truth , a few weeks back I saw an Egyptian statue, this was almost clear and I jumped a foot in bed and let out some remark.

Now to the other new menbers  lets give this new web site a chance to grow , don't be afraid to post your thoughts, we can all learn and grow together. ( my Grammieness is coming out ) D has alot to share with us .

Tashina:

Yes, it sure does.  That is an example of going to the Earth and letting go.  Absolutely.

Also, right before you drift off to sleep you are in an altered state of consciousness and you will/can see things that are quite extraordinary.  Usually when you are doing something by rote memory such as: driving, riding, gardening, rocking a baby, doing dishes, etc. you are likely to be in an altered state of consciousness.  It can be very interesting what comes to you seemingly out of the blue when you are driving.  Don't dismiss these occurrences as your mind playing tricks on you as it is your soul that is talking to you.  

As you become more adept at entering altered states, you will begin to see more and more things that you would not normally see.  That is a good thing.  Remember that everything doesn't look like it does here on Earth, so don't get scared if you see something very strange.  Just say “Hi.”

d

Allen,

You are very welcome.  I am happy that is beneficial to you.

There will be more content coming along regularly.

Be sure to ask questions if you need to because the question you ask is probably the same question others have.

d

Tashina said:

Well  put a dunce   hat on me. I think I also need  a chair facing the wall. I think that it's great you guys are having these break throughs , but for me.. mmm. What has happened to me is I took  three Apache Tears , I larger one tugs at my third eye.. the other two I wanted to see if they wanted to work with me , they don't. So now I will make a necklace to keep the larger stone  in my energy field. I 'm still just over the door stoop, but I can see me standing there sooo… maybe like the turtle that is my sign I'll get there , I'm determined.

Tash,

The Obsidian is just to put a neutral field around you.  It has nothing to do with entering an altered state.  Just keep trying, you will succeed.  I promise.  It is good that you are determined…just let it happen as it should.

d

DanubePilot said:

webmaster said:

(5) Entering Altered States of Consciousness; A very basic introduction:

http://mp3s.beyondvibration.org/5-2011-07-04at03_29-entering-altered-states-BeyondVibration.mp3

Diana,

I've read through a lot of the posts today after I listened to step 5. You talked about people's animal guides in several of them. One of my main totem animals is Coyote, and I was hoping you could help me understand her role in my life. Others walking with me are Hummingbird, Snake, Hawk, Spider, Owl, but I feel close to most animals that I encounter. Thank you. I must add that the forming of neutral intent is a big revelation to me and I will do that when I practice opening a portal. It's easy for me to be in an alterend state and see other beings. However, I did not approach them with neutral intent or enough respect in the past. I thought since they showed up that they came to interact with me. Then when I lost faith in my abilities/experiences, I began to question the validity of information that these encounters produced. Lacking neutral intent and approaching without permission – I understand now that those were part of the problem. Thanks for guiding me to this.

DP,

I saved this one for last because it is dear to my heart.

You are very lucky to have Coyote with you.  I also have a male Coyote.  His name is Yotee Coyote.  He has protected and taught me so much over my life.  Probably the most important thing is to learn to laugh at myself when I something up.  Coyote is often said to be a trickster.  This is not true.  Coyote loves to give you what you wish for and then watch you try and handle it.  That in itself is a great lesson.  When people say he tricked them, they are throwing the blame back on Him rather than themselves.  They are not taking responsibility for their own actions.  Also, Coyote teaches you that while everything is sacred, nothing is sacred. It is a balance lesson that once you understand opens a whole world up to you.

Hummer not only will bring your joy and happiness, but it has great endurance over long journeys.  It is able to heal using its tiny beak as a laser.  It can get into places that other larger animals don't have access to.  It is great for sealing leaks that spring up.

Snake brings you transmutation…physical change.  This means not only physical changes to yourself, but your environment.  I also work with Snake.  Snake will bring change at a moment's notice.  You will find yourself making major changes in a very short period of time.  This often is not liked by those around you because they do not understand that this is part of your nature.  Many people fear change, but change is absolutely necessary for growth.  You don't change, you don't grow.  You don't gain new knowledge.  You stay in a static state.

Hawk sees the overall picture from its place high in the sky.  This is very useful because most people look from detail to detail and are never able to put the whole picture together.  Hawk does that for you.

Spider is wonderful.  Grandmother Spider wove the fabric of the universe and controls your fate.  You may feel, at times, that someone is pulling on you to do something.  That is Spider dancing on your web of fate.  She is subtle and fearless.  She will guide you to places you never knew where open to you.

Owl sees in darkness.  Owl moves without sound.  It has the ability to teach you see in complete darkness…and that can include the ability to see clearly in shadow.  If you do any healing work, you must be able to see in shadow as that is where most of those needing healing are. You have to have the patience to teach them to leave their fear behind and move into the light.

I understand about your affinity to all animals.  You can have from one to hundreds of lifelong animal spirits.  Some will come into your life for a short period of time to teach you a specific lesson and then leave.  Your lifelong animals NEVER leave you.  You may not feel them around you, but they are there.  They may step back to allow another animal that needs to work with you to come forward.

Let me know if you have any questions.

d