What is consciousness?
When we fall asleep where do we go?
What is happening to our brain while we're in the land of subconscious?
Building Awareness was created to bring to attention these against the grain questions and ideas that are deeply stimulating and hopefully inspiring to contemplate. Concerns that are directly involving our current world views, economic threats, other forms of reality, questioning life as we know it and genuine, interesting, awareness invoking topics. Although some cannot be 100%, factually answered, they are more posed as questions for psychological thought and pondering minds.
Due to the nature of some of this post, I want to lay out at the onset that I do not condone the use of illegal drugs, especially not in the right atmosphere and not when it has the capability of harming others. I do, however, condone personal experimentation and the having the sovereign right and choice to decide what you want to do with your own body if it is having a positive effect on your life, without negatively affecting someone else's.
This article is in reference to, but not wholly regarding, a certain substance classified as a Class 1 drug and can induce jail time if found on your person, named Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, other wise known as 'The Spirit Molecule'. Many books and even a film have been made on this most peculiar of chemicals which is found in all sorts of plant and animal life and is speculated to be produced in the area of our brain named the Pineal Gland (Epiphysis Cerebri) and released while we sleep.
There are many other names for this most among various cultures...Mind's Eye (Modern), Eye of Horus/Ra (Egyptian), The Third Eye (Hindu), Seal of the Soul (French)..etc. The general idea though is that DMT is released into our brain when we are born, die and while we sleep. This can be the reason behind people having extraordinary Awakening, Near Death and even Alien Abduction experiences.
It has been said by many including Graham Hancock, a world famous author well known for his deeply inspiring and thought provoking books such as America Before and Magicians of the Gods, that our brain and consciousness could be related to a TV set and a channel it is tuned into; if the TV set breaks, the signal, or frequency, remains. Although this concept is not new, his extremely controversial but flawlessly descriptive, banned TEDx talk (link provided at the bottom of this post) and 20+ years of researching ideas revolving around intelligent, ancient civilizations predating the Egyptian era, has brought a rapid acceleration of attention to modern audiences around the world. Some of his books have been scrutinized in the past as preposterous pseudo science, although he himself never has claimed to be a scientist. But with the amount of new evidence constantly growing around the subject matter, it is less pseudo and more in line with a certain kind of spiritual knowledge and awakening.
Another side of reality.
If you have had the opportunity to go through an 'awakening experience', then the ideas which Graham promotes - the use of DMT as a tool for learning more about ourselves, the mind, universal wisdom and evolution - become mind blowingly obvious and probably in line with your profound, post-experience beliefs. For those that haven't had this, ancient cultures all over the world have known of these mystical and trans-formational plant properties for thousands of years. Some people may consider these new understandings to be parallel to the concept of 'waking up'.
People who have experienced a high dose of DMT or that have had a near death experience have vivaciously expressed visuals of extreme geometrical shapes and patterns that all seem to pop up out of nothing and everything at the same time, as if geometry itself is manifested into your vision. Vivid colors and lights bleeding in and out of the walls that line your room, the floor disappearing altogether, eyes transforming from the tips of your finger tips, meeting life forms that seem to want you to come and 'play' with them like they're happy you finally were able to make the journey to see them. These other life forms that the late Terrence McKenna coined Machine Elves. He described the elves, not like we might imagine elves, but as squeaking, jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs made of grammar and light. Mother Ayahuasca has been coined by Graham Hancock, referring to an entity that he has met in the DMT realm that is always concerned for his well being and has led him to less addicted lifestyle having used marijuana daily for 20 years of his life. These other life forms may be the higher dimensional beings just trying to make us understand that life as we know it, is not the end all. That this is really just one plane of existence and the one they reside in is the next evolution of being and our utopia. On top of all this, an unparalleled feeling that you are in tune with a universal frequency, not confined by the brains interpretation of the signals it usually would receive from the three dimensional matter universe we reside in. Even with our advanced understanding of language, it remains extremely difficult to express this outside dimension with words alone. Feelings of obscurity, euphoria, love, fear and extreme joy are some nice descriptive words to relate to this lack of definition via words.
There have been controlled scientific studies pertaining to ideas that this may be the reason people have alien abduction experiences. Countless stories around the world describe similar traits in their stories: other life forms, experimentation's, angels and demons, mother ayahuasca, meeting god, the light at the end of the tunnel ....all pointing toward a unified, but broader understanding or, idea rather, that there is an existence of life in a higher dimensional realm.
Most Entheogens, a class of psychoactive substances that induce any type of spiritual experience aimed at development or sacred use, permit doorways into the mind where the brain no longer acts normally as a reality filter built for biological survival. If you take away the brain from the equation, all the 'data' that our universe vibrates to us is redefined, re-imagined and reshaped into something far less obvious. Something less definable. Something where an experience can lead you to a path of pure enlightenment, wonder, childlike exhilaration and love...or something of an adverse nature where effects such as fear, nausea, ego death or throwing you down a rabbit hole of negativity that seemingly gets deeper and darker the more you think in a negative way. The reasons behind these happenings are far more subjugated by the situation you are in and the people that surround you but also, how far down the rabbit hole you are willing/unwilling to go. That being said, most experiences have led to far more positive outcomes than negative ones. Some people coming out of these transcendent states of mind have said that they were Atheist and Agnostic, but have instead gained an astounding appreciation of life, cosmology, esoteric wisdom, nature, animals, family and other loved ones and a relationship with themselves on a spiritual level that they did not engage with before. Attaining faith of a universal kind instead of man made religions. Faith that all life, human kind, animals, flora and fauna all have their role to play in the world as we know it. That thriving in a co-existant master ecosystem will drive us to a higher state of evolution.
Outside of scientific experiments, people from many different cultures and walks of life have found these experiences in festivals such as Shambala in Canada that are designed to not only stage an amazing variety of music and art, but to promote awareness, well being, relaxation, connection with nature, healthy eating and incredible talks on topics such as spirituality and entheogenic exploration. The people that visit these kind of festivals all have one thing in common: love. Love for music, love for arts, love for animals and nature, love for the life they live and breath.
If this all seems a bit far fetched, you are not alone.
Blind Faith
There are countless religions world wide who all devotes their lives to the existence of a God in one form or another depending on their cultural standpoint. Some believe out of blind faith, some via forms of meditation, some through hallucinogenic substances and some claim that after multiple, completely transformational Ayahuasca sessions - a plant based concoction with the active properties of DMT, made using 3 separate plants/trees out of the 150,000 varieties in the Amazon - that they have met God and found peace and meaning in their lives not previously present. The idea that there is a higher, imperceptible dimension is extremely fascinating. It seems as though all of reality is more than we are able to 'tune' into with just our human senses, we are perhaps only joyriding through the third dimension in these biological bodies.
The TV set and signal are the perfect metaphor of how consciousness is perceived. Take away our bodily senses and that signal or frequency is still there. When we fall asleep or when we have the occasional daydream or when people experience NDE's or DMT....the reality that awaits is far different and consciousness becomes far more discombobulated, mysterious and one of pure existence compared to what our human senses, here in the 3rd dimension, are aware of. But if we are fully aware of this state of consciousness while we are experiencing it, even though our body is undeniably unconscious, then how do we define at that point in time what is the real reality?
As the famous line in the Matrix, spoken by the great Morpheus goes...
“What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”
What if the other dimensional beings created this universe as a game... a game to posses life forms that evolved a brain capable of thought and the universal mind at biological conception, just so they could re meet themselves via us to learn what they need to do to further their own evolution? There are two other reality theories I would love to discuss - Simulation Theory and The Holographic Universe - but I think a whole new post is required to journey down that rabbit hole.
Maybe our minds and thoughts are part of this other reality, breaking through the seams to this 3rd dimension simply trying to navigate us to the higher frequency of understanding, the true nature of the self and the one coexisting, multi dimensional reality. In any case, it's great food for thought.
I don't know if I actually answered the questions put forward at the onset of this, but hopefully I have defined or outlayed some of the thought processes to think of your own answers to these questions. For it's better to have unanswered questions, than no questions at all.
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Further reading on the Pineal gland, consciousness and DMT
https://www.psypost.org/2019/07/study-provides-evidence-that-dmt-is-produced-naturally-from-neurons-in-the-mammalian-brain-54051
https://www.gaia.com/article/ancient-civilizations-knew-third-eye
https://grahamhancock.com/books/
https://www.newscientist.com/round-up/consciousness/ Graham Hancock's TEDx Talk on consciousness and DMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w Watch the Ad for DMT: The Spirit Molecule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8YwnVelFm8 and the full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtT6Xkk-kzk #thoughtsofawareness #spiritscience #thespiritmolecule #grahamhancock #reality #DMT #Ayahuasca #Aliens #Spirituality #Awareness #subconscious #Consciousness #beyondthethirddimention
