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Non-Drug Experiences/Techniques

 
 
PatrickMM
21:03 / 01.12.03
I'm not much of a drug person, but I'm really interested in trying to reach the same place that drugs take you, but without drugs, so that I'd have more control, and would not be in as much danger. So, does anyone have any good techniques, such as meditation, etc. that would help you get deeper into your mind, without using drugs.

The main thing that I use is something I picked up from a friend, a form of trance/shamanic meditation. Essentially, you completely relax all your limbs, and your body, so that you don't feel anymore, and sort of daze out. It may not sound like much, but I've gotten pretty deep, and after one of my friends tranced, he was ice cold, so it's definitely not just almost going to sleep.

Anyone else gotten to a good mental place without drugs?
 
 
Gavin Rossdale
22:23 / 01.12.03
Yoga and Zen meditation have done wonders for me.
 
 
Quantum
09:16 / 02.12.03
Hell yes.
Guided visualisation,
Lucid Dreaming,
reading evocative poetry or prose so you lose yourself in it,
a frenzy of dance or physical exercise like a Dervish,
strobes,
singing/hyperventilating,
any type of meditation,
sleep deprivation,
emotional distress,
fasting
drumming and
looking at the sky

are all drug free ways to go deeper. Read Aldous Huxley's 'Heaven and Hell' and 'Doors to Perception', in which he details many techniques and shows how they effectively do the same as taking psychedelics.
 
  
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