Meditation force, experiences

To return to the data from the meditation experiment, it may be that the simpler perceptions of color, light, energy force, and movement represent a shift of the normal perceptual processes to aspects of the stimulus array previously screened out—or it may be that these percepts are registered through the operation of new perceptual processes. In the... 

Of course the Tree of Life system does bear within it certain underlying philosophic and religious structures which may make it unsuited to those individuals who do not wish to work within this Kabbalistic current, and it is not in itself essential for such pathworking or inner journeys. There are other systems for understanding inner polarities and archetypal forces which arise out of the hermetic alchemical tradition and are equally valid. In the longer term I hope to be able to articulate and describe such a map of inner work which can be used to find our way easily through the experiences gained in meditation on hermetic emblems. 

The concept of d-SoCs comes to us in commonsense form, as well as in terms of my initial research interests, from people s experiences of radically altered states of consciousness-states like drunkenness, dreaming, marijuana intoxication, certain meditative states. These represent such radical shifts in the patterning, the system properties of consciousness, that most people experiencing them are forced to notice that the state of their consciousness is quite different, even... 

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