ConsciousnessShifting

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This stuff must be approached with caution, as talk of consciousness-shifting tends to attract the woolly and deranged, and is arguably of limited value outside concrete practices (see The Gate) of such shifts.

However. 'Something drastic' can take many forms: rituals, shattering experiences, psychotropic substances.

CarlosCastaneda talks about moving 'the assembly point' of consciousness as a way of moving people from their habitual kinds of awareness. Opinions are divided as to the literal/metaphoric nature of his work but perhaps (in more ways than one) that discussion is academic in this context.

Certainly there seems some value in the notion that novices at the practice need elaborate rituals, whereas more seasoned travellers can do it with a flick of the wrist (or of some more subtle body, perhaps...)

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