by Adrian van der Meijden

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Try this as "meditation" or detaching consciousness for those who like their proof. Alternatives To Meditation We don't need to sit down and practice meditation. When we go to sleep a mechanism dislodges body and senses from awareness so we slide into a black darkness where we don't know. There's between 5 and 8 phases to it, although only insomniacs do this slowly enough to count them. One of these is Freud's coffin or armour experience. One is innerly aware of the body without any need or urge to move it. Call it detached or dissociated. If we can sustain this state it shifts into something like an oceanic experience of the Wordsworth kind. Half an hour to an hour of this and one hardly needs any sleep. Thus the trick lies in putting the body at rest awarely, rather than unawarely. Too much attention and one does not go to sleep and too little attention and one slides off into sleep. An image for it is as like pedaling a bicycle nudging the pedals each stroke to speed up and slow down, rather than use the brakes. Being mildly pickled can help too. I won't go into the 52 varieties of inner experiencing. That depends on which of our senses we habitually exercise. But it may be worth to test that we can dissociate 'the mind" from the body. The issue here is that some of those sensations can be validated and other cannot but that's like the screen play on a video. It fills, it empties and John Lilly's sensory deprivation shows that our mind likes a filled up screen over and blank one.

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