Consciousness, Ritual Meditation, Self-Realization

This is the fifth blog in the series “Meditation & Magic Mushrooms,” and provides a variation of the Meditation & Magic Mushroom method to help you self realize. That is to realize, and live in that realization, that you are pure awareness. This method is called Transcendental Self Inquiry.

This blog also shares a perspective on the structure of human consciousness and the ego, their collective role in spiritual awakening and healing, and how self realization takes place. With self realization comes profound spiritual healing and presence happens naturally thereafter (without meditation).

The blog series “Meditation & Magic Mushrooms” provides essential knowledge and methods to spiritually awaken, spiritually heal, and to self realize.

1. Meditation & Magic Mushrooms Overview
2. How to Meditate for Presence and Rituals
3. How to Safely Meditate with Magic Mushrooms
4. My Expanded Consciousness Experiences
5. How to Self Realize and be naturally Present
6. The Medical Benefits of Psilocybin Magic Mushrooms
7. Spiritual Awakening & Spiritual Healing
8. The Archeology of Meditation & Magic Mushrooms
9. The Birds & Bees of Psychedelics

Consciousness as Expandable & Movable Awareness

Who am I…? I am pure awareness is all I am.

Our real awareness, in the earthly realm, arises from presence. This awareness is both individuated and identity-less, and attentive to everything that arises through the body-mind in space-time. That is, I am aware of my body’s senses associated with the internal-external arisings, my feelings and thoughts, and my deep arising intuitions. However, none of these arisings or my physical body or my ego-mind is I, only the awareness of these arisings is who I am.

When I die, that awareness retracts from presence and I return as awareness, beyond objective reality, to our infinite-eternal loving creator via the death process. Here/there I will undergo a life review where my karmic imprint will be assessed.

We know we are present when we are the awareness of our breath and one, ideally two, of our senses—sight, sound, feel of breeze, smell of flowers, etc.—all melt-merge into a singular awareness. Silence naturally arises in the space of presence. In presence I am aware of the arisings of thoughts, feelings (including emotions), my five senses, and the body my awareness is housed within. All my life and interpersonal experiences come to my awareness through these mind-body arisings.

Through numerous profound ritual experiences and on three occasions by spontaneous grace, via head trauma and a near-death experience, I have come to understand that my awareness can expand, move, and contract within and beyond objective reality. This provides awareness of other “hologram experiences” beyond the confines of my body-mind in space-time (Earth’s realm). I have described some of my experiences in my last blog [Meditation & Magic Mushrooms (Blog #4): Expanded Consciousness Experiences].

Depending upon the experience of expanded consciousness, we can be the awareness of ourselves as “individuated pure consciousness,” or “Unity awareness or pure Consciousness”. Each expanded perspective of awareness is associated with certain attributes or qualities. For example, as Unity awareness I have profound feelings of being the sum totality of everything, like the metacosmic void or the universe. It feels intensely-profoundly that “I am everything, and everything is I” and I feel this deep in my core beyond words. Dimensions of eternity and infinity imbue my awareness, as that awareness is literally stretched to those perspectives-feelings—I am the entire universe and it is I (the whole show) and I am (as awareness) beyond time—eternal.

During Unity experiences my awareness is typically imbued with heart-mind blowing feelings of infinite, indescribable bliss-love felt deep in my core. From Unity I am aware that everything I am is love (beyond words), and that I emanate from that love. Everything in the universe is created from this love in its purest form. This Unity perspective on awareness is heart-mind blowing—and utterly indescribable.

In experiences of the higher self the perspective is individuated awareness, but with a strong sense of connection to/as Unity. In such experiences I have most commonly been awareness inhabiting a Buddha-like apparition/entity beyond objective reality. In this plane of awareness I am this Buddha-like entity, and it is I. I feel incredibly profound things as that awareness. This higher self experience has always been associated with the awareness of my heart chakra and other chakras being opened—imbuing my awareness with mind-shatteringly intense-profound feelings of indescribable love, of being healed, and of being forgiven or being the forgiveness of myself and others.

In other higher self experiences I have simply been my body’s “energy field/network” with the opening of one or more chakra(s), without any recognizable form.

These higher self perspectives can oscillate/interchange with the awareness of Unity. This oscillation in awareness during expanded consciousness is where my sense of connection with love, infinity, and eternity seeps into my higher self awareness. But it is not felt to the same degree as pure Unity awareness. In presence I know intuitively I am eternal, infinite, and I am love—but it is not the same as in Unity or higher self awareness beyond objective reality.

Another interpretation is there is an obscuration of pure Consciousness’ infinite love from my awareness in presence. In addition to pure consciousness spanning a space-time vortex, then by me personally and collectively, as a human and male. I’m skirting on the fringes of subjects like karma, dualities, archetypes, and patriarchy, as I try to understand other aspects of who I am. Those ancient sun god religion priesthood ritual methods came in rather handy I think!

Our Ego Is the Cause of Suffering

Moving back to our earthly existence, we have two windows or perspectives on earthly awareness: awareness emanating presence and the ego mind in fictional time. The difference between presence and ego represents a vast yet subtle divide in awareness. The ego—counterfeit awareness synthesized in fictional time, meaning in past and future thoughts—forms while we are young infants. Think back on your life and ask yourself, “What are my first memories and how old was I?” This is when the ego began to hijack our awareness on life. Life after life this happens until we awaken to this ego-karmic trap. This is what self realization is all about.

Simplistically speaking, the ego filters all internal-external arisings through our memory/emotion regulation brain centers. The ego obscures presence by promoting incessant thinking, feeling-emotions, speaking, doing, attaching, etc., and promoting its sense of identity. Before long we do not “consciously” know we are awareness in presence anymore. Instead, we become the identity and the external curiosity created by our ego, our learned dualistic-archetypally propelled behaviors, all the while acting out our conditioning (linked to our childhood). Guy Finley in his book The Secret of Letting Go gives a great account of the ego and how it works to hijack our consciousness and keep us from awakening. This was the last book I read before self realization.

I wondered for some time about the evolutionary advantage of the ego—because we’ve all got one. In historic-evolutionary times child mortality rates were very high, and children were subject to all manner of abuse, cruelty, and suffering within families, extended families, tribes, and by external causes, like disease, famine, war, the fate of their parents and siblings, etc. The child’s biological remit is to survive. The ego soaks up these early-life traumas and develops a memory and emotional judgment associated with these and other traumatic life events. Future similar traumatic/abusive events trigger a survival, fight-flight, strong emotional response that likely improves the child’s odds of survival or helps the child deal with the trauma until they can escape it.

Without some kind of education about proper emotional responses, an education that can happen from good parenting, a wide family network, socializing, or tribal upbringing, we retain those child-like emotional responses into our adulthood. This includes the underlying unconscious beliefs/assumptions formed in infancy and their triggers. I don’t think any adult is immune from this, and you’ll always see adult-infantile emotional responses when a person endures a strong emotional triggering. In this regard the ego is the root cause of, or synonymous with, our suffering and that which we cause.

During the post-childhood life we tend to unconsciously attract similar experiences or relationships (as in early life) that mirror the things we need to see, and which need to be healed or transformed. These effectively replicate the childhood trauma/context/emotion, so we can see it again. In this regard the ego creates a future opportunity for healing through traumatic life/relationship experiences—if we dare to look inside and ask—What does My difficult emotion teach Me about Me? (as opposed to examining the difficult event itself or the other person and excluding any self-examination).

Fortunately, the child, whose species prime directive is to survive, was gifted an inbuilt, self-healing capability triggered by transcendental self inquiry. Our species’ biological need to survive and our self-healing capabilities are all linked to promote the evolution of human consciousness to our higher self. The ego is our doorway to spiritual awakening and spiritual healing.

With self realization we jettison all the negative emotions associated with life’s important traumas. We find instant forgiveness toward all those who have hurt us and ourselves (for co-creating this), and let go of the negative charge we associate with those people, situations, or ourselves.

However, self realization does not remove our underlying emotional responses or their underlying beliefs, assumptions, or triggers. That, I’m afraid, is our work after self realization (with awareness in presence)! Perhaps during the profound experience of ego death/rebirth we can annihilate this old conditioning, or our attachment to it. Intuitively I sense this is what happens, but I have not yet experienced this annihilating spiritual process.

I remind you of these perspectives on awareness (pure consciousness) and their shared traits, so you know there is more to your sense of self, or your perceived self-identity. It is only through separating our real self-awareness in presence from the dominating synthetic ego-mind awareness in fictional time that we can ultimately see and know who we really are.

You can’t create this separation with the cognitive mind from presence (with great effect) because the moment you self-inquire you break presence. This is why we have to “get out of our minds” and force that separation in our awareness, and then conduct self inquiry.

What Is Self Realization?

Self realization is coming to the heartfelt realization that “I am” awareness.

This awareness is identity-less and witnessed from a number of perspectives. That is as awareness in presence, or as the higher self and/or Unity awareness beyond body-mind in space-time, within and beyond objective reality. Higher self and/or Unity awareness occurs via grace (i.e., a miracle) or during sacred rituals (i.e., supplemented meditation). All of these perspectives of awareness have the same origin—pure Consciousness—and are interconnected as Unity and its individuated forms or perspectives (presence, higher self).

Therefore, pure Consciousness imbues and is immanent in all life, is interconnected with and transcendent of all things, and is the non-physical out of which the physical arises.

Conceptually we can present the different perspectives on pure awareness or pure Consciousness as: Presence, Higher Self, Unity, which i believe is synonymous with Christianity’s “the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost”, which is synonymous with Hindu’s Atman / Brahman. (ignore the order of the words).

This “real self-awareness” is without identity other than “I am.” This “I am-ness” is felt profoundly in our core and is impressed into our consciousness during the self realization experience. You then know who you really are! For me, upon this self realization I was rapture for an eternity beyond objective reality!

The consequence or gift of self realization is innate presence—and living in that awareness thereafter. But the ego still exists—albeit in a different/subordinate role (mostly!). In presence silence naturally arises, so we need not contrive to be silent. In the silence of presence there is no ego, just the awareness of silence and all arisings. Ego-mind arisings may happen during presence, like invisible phantoms coming up in front of our awareness, but we understand these are not us and that we have been distracted from presence. When this happens, we simply return to breath, merge back into presence, and maybe smile!

Conducting Transcendental Self Inquiry

The single most important question we can ever ask ourselves on this multi-karmic life adventure is “Who am I . . . ?”
A simple question with a paradoxical answer.

This is best asked when we’re out of our ‘ego minds’—as the higher self beyond objective reality.

At some stage in our innumerable incarnations as our spirit we all have to come to understand who we really are as pure Consciousness—through the gift of life(s). This paradoxical question underpins the very meaning of life and is answered and comprehended as our higher self, soul, Holy Ghost, Atman, etc.!

I call this method “Transcendental Self Inquiry (TSI).”

IN SUMMARY

1. Set ritual intentions to self inquire in the months and weeks beforehand.
2. Practice mantra meditation (I am; “I” on inspiration, “am” on expiration)
3. Conduct a fire ceremony before your Meditation & Magic Mushroom ritual.
4. Reaffirm your ritual intentions before the transmuting flames in deep presence.
5. Use the Meditation & Magic Mushrooms method to expand your awareness, beyond the ego mind.
6. During your Ritual Meditation use your “I am” mantra—until you break on through to the other side!

Seriously—it’s that simple—everything is placed on autopilot, and the experience naturally arises. Pure Consciousness awaits us all (before death).

KNOW THE MEDITATION & MAGIC MUSHROOM METHOD: Before reading this section I refer you to Blog #3 in the Meditation & Magic Mushroom series. This blog describes the base Meditation & Magic Mushrooms method and, most importantly, the health, safety, and legal cautions, which you must thoroughly review and adhere to please (see section “Taking Responsibility for Your Practice”).

SETTING RITUAL INTENTIONS: The following ritual intention is similar to that which I used for my self inquiry ritual. Rehearse this intention, in your own words, in the weeks and months beforehand. Finally affirm this intention at your fire ceremony before your Meditation & Magic Mushroom ritual.

Dear pure Consciousness, the love in my life,

Please help me come to you so that I may heal in your presence and witness your bliss-love in Unity awareness.

Please help me understand Who am I as pure Consciousness.

Please help me ask, “Who am I?” and answer, “I am,” in your presence—and feel this deeply within.

Please help me return to earthly life afterwards so that I may be innately present and live in that awareness forevermore.

Please help me then transform my old conditioning, so I no longer cause suffering.

Please help me be of service to other people, to all life, and to our beloved Mother Earth.

Thank you.

MEDITATION MANTRA: Our ritual intention “informs” pure Consciousness of our wish/intent to self realize and heal. The question “Who am I?” naturally arose in my awareness once I had exited out of space-time and entered “beyond objective reality.” I was using the mantra “I am” for this meditation because it represented the answer to the question. “I am” was embedded in my consciousness in Unity awareness six months previously on the winter solstice 2014—when I witnessed the birth of the universe from the metacosmic void. Whilst the question naturally arose, I as my higher self “consciously and silently” replied, “I am.” Everything was automatically choreographed by pure Consciousness for me. You can read the section; “Transcendental Self Realization” in Blog #4 for my self realization experience.

Whilst I don’t normally promote the use of a mantra during meditation, I recommend you start practicing mantra meditation in the final two weeks before conducting TSI—“I” upon inspiration, “am” upon expiration slowly and deliberately. After each of these mantra practice meditations say an offering prayer to pure Consciousness and communicate your wish and intent to self realize. For example, your prayer could address those who suffer or cause suffering of all kinds (a different kind of suffering each day) and your desire that this suffering may end. Communicate your wish to self realize and dedicate your efforts to the evolution of the collective human consciousness.

If you wish to do anything for humanity—self realize—and you will profoundly impact the collective consciousness for all.

IMPORTANT REALITY CHECK: You can’t just jump into conducting transcendental self inquiry as your first transcendental experience. We must all work up to this experience, prepare our being, through consciousness awakening, opening chakras, healing, engaging in learning/reeducation relating to our emotional responses, etc., and creating grace. Only then may we receive this self realization.

It took me two and half years, or ten times of conducting Meditation & Magic Mushrooms Ritual Meditations to experience self realization. I meditated every day, read many important books en route, wrote a book (Discovering Ritual Meditation), and gave up my old life.

I communicated with single-minded intent my wish to pure Consciousness for spiritual healing, and with each experience pure Consciousness revealed a little bit more. I came to know I was loved, was love, and emanated from love, and I knew there were obstructions to the flow of my feminine energy (and still are). During this time I loved and lost (and used the mirror it afforded me as an opportunity to evolve), and i rejoined with my mother, sister, and a brother after many decades of absence from each others lives. I am now reconnected with all of my dispersed family, and I know we love each other. I went an adult lifetime without knowing that.

In the last few years I have experienced some of the best (indigenous) and worst (gringo) of humanity – providing a yin & yang or sweet & sour experience. I live in a lush and sacred valley inhabited for eons by locals, who have been robbed slowly over recent times. It is rich in magnetic energies and overlooks the ancient capital of the Mayan highland priesthood capital across the lake, which is why i came here. This “disconnected” gringo community, or i should say enclave, owns most of the best growing land, and complains about more than they ever do for the locals. Jaibalito is one of the most impoverished (yet culturally rich) and its children amongst the most malnourished in Guatemala, and few gringos do anything to collaborate to help that situation. Yet they are quite happy to attack and criticize those who try to help and integrate.

This context ensured furtive experiences rich in important things i needed to see about me.  I had strong emotional responses to extreme provocations, and saw how i responded to violent people. I’ve witnessed people blatantly lying and manipulating, slandering me professionally and personally, and I’ve witnessed different forms of violence used against me. Mostly done from their coward-like vantage point of behind my back. In response i  was able to see me as a man, as my conditioning, as masculine energy, as the collective male (culturally, consciousness), and see the role of patriarchy in me, in others, and in the world more generally. I witnessed my consciousness beyond objective reality over/within/connected to an infinite abyss of human suffering – and I was it, and it was I – and with that came important self-realizations and a path to change. Consciousness showed(shows) me that which i need to see and transform. You escape nothing after self-realization!

This journey also had good consequences, and ensured i connected with our local indigenous community. In twelve months we have planted 4,000 treelings (cypress, pine, aliso) to help reforest our valley and prepare for climate change. We’ve also planted 200 fruit trees and set up a vivero to grow new fruit trees (without purchasing) from seeds, branches, tubers, and through grafting (my garden). I/we connected with the local police and a newly opened school with the teenagers from our village to help reforest Jaibalito, and work to improve food security in the village. We will connect the river 1km up the valley with the village and improve water supply during the rainy season. My focus is in helping the village to prepare for climate change by ensuring/improving water, food, and energy supply and security (cheaply, using natural sustainable resources).

During these last five years I’ve had to look closely at myself, trying to understand who am I and why do things happen for me in life the way they do – across life. This for me wasn’t an easy time, but it was an incredibly rich experience of revelation, healing, transformation, and awakening. I’m eternally grateful for what has transpired, but be under no illusion this was an easy journey. Far from it, it’s the most arduous journey I ever undertook. Here I am five years on from being initiated in the Mankind Project (as “Fierydragon”) where I bore witness to many good men whose lives had been ripped apart by early-life abuse and trauma—I had no idea the journey this warrior initiation would spark!

When the time was right, the play of consciousness saw fit to place Guy Finley (through his book), Mooji (through a YouTube video), and a plant medicine mystic on my metaphorical doorstep. During the final three months before the summer solstice 2015 things began to crystallize, in no short thanks to my mystic friend.

To be honest until I watched Mooji I had not known of Advaita’s self inquiry/self realization method! I watched the vacant looks of Mooji’s followers and realized they hadn’t a clue either, and that Mooji’s method was trying to achieve awareness separation and self inquiry from presence. In that moment I realized this separation would be best experienced as the higher self beyond objective reality. Setting appropriate ritual intentions (set in presence) was the key to directing this experience/outcome. Somehow I knew that.

Within six hours of watching Mooji for the first time I self realized using my Transcendental Self Inquiry method.

Presence & Transformation

The key message I wish to impart here is that self realization isn’t the end of spiritual endeavor—it’s a new beginning, after which the real work of transformation begins.

The consequence of the self realization experience is our brains are remapped to support innate presence as we live out our daily life. For me, with presence comes a peaceful-serene inner silence, and I am simply aware of my sensory-body-mind arisings, intuitions, and breath. My body’s crown chakra/third eye buzzes 24/7. My mind is no longer incessantly active and thinking, scheming, planning, or involved in its obsessions, the way it once was. For the first three months I bathed in a blissful and serene state, soaking up the simple joy of being present in a beautiful garden in front of a captivating volcanic-lake vista. After this I began to more actively engage life, people, and work—but I did not return to the Western world treadmill of benevolent enslavement (at least not yet!).

One and a half years later innate presence is my reality. My chakras still buzz 24/7, with my ego-mind intermittently and temporarily superimposing itself in front of my silent awareness. This is happening as I work, do other activities, and when I am strongly emotionally triggered. When I realize I have lost presence, I simply return to breath and my sensory arisings, like the sounds of birds or the breeze, and I am immediately present—often accompanied by an inner smile.

I do things while present, like reading, researching, writing, gardening—in silence. In fact I came to realize the reasons I’ve always enjoyed so-called dangerous activities, like motorbike riding and racing, snowboarding, diving, whitewater kayaking, is because I am present when doing these activities. They demand it.

The post self realization experience is going to be different for every one of us because we all have different early-life experiences, which we have carried forward into life. This carrying forward manifests as our behaviors, the big decisions we’ve taken or failed to take, the relationships we find ourselves in or out of, and the suffering we have caused others and ourselves en route.

In essence with our newfound awareness in presence together with the “play-of-consciousness” we come to see and know our old conditioning. This conditioning is mirrored or triggered for us via our interactions, friendships, relationships, life-context, and situations. We literally have a light shone on our lives moment-by-moment, interaction-by-interaction, situation-by-situation, and we come to see who we are. Do you like what or who you see? We then have a choice—consciously transform old conditioning or keep repeating the causes of our suffering (and that which we cause) until we transform. Given what I have observed in my life I think these repetitions subsequently escalate until we learn, heal, and transform those aspects of our manifest being, which need to be transformed. So, in the end we really have no choice—we have to do the work.

The post self realization experience feels like an adult puberty witnessed from presence, rather than from within emotions, severe triggering aside. Assisting us is a newfound repertoire of benevolent spiritual qualities, which become naturally available to us or manifest from presence. These include loving-kindness, compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, equanimity, and inner peace and joy. These come via the rays of loving light emanating pure Consciousness into our being and mind (if not obscured) from beyond it all.

Before or after conducting self inquiry and asking, “Who am I?” the next best question we can ask ourselves on this transformation journey is;

“What does this difficult situation or relationship and its triggered emotion(s) teach me about me?”

Invariably, we have to revisit our childhood, understand how we took on beliefs and assumptions, and comprehend how these no longer serve us. This is done with loving kindness, compassion, and forgiveness/acceptance of the dualities that we manifest and those who trigger those for us. While I really don’t have all the answers here, I do understand that we transform the negative aspects of our dualistic behaviors by marrying them with their positive counterparts, for example, anger with love for the self and the other person. We get there by understanding that we all suffer, we are all consciousness behind our conditioning, and we forgive, accept and let go of our judgment about the other person and ourselves. We learn to cultivate empathy and compassion for both parties and try to understand how we came to be in a much broader sense.

Educating/reeducating myself about my emotional responses, understanding the influence of dualistic and archetypal behaviors on me, and of the collective influences like karma and patriarchy are the frontiers I’m staring at. How we transform our conditioning using spiritual principles is a door I’m knocking on right now.

Life is a hallway of mirrors and emotional triggers for us to see ourselves—and sooner or later we all have to look inside. Self realization helps us do this along with the realization that we must do the work—or a little more Shiva comes our way!

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If you wish to access expanded states of consciousness for the purpose of spiritually awakening, profoundly healing, and self-realizing, then you are going to need to supplement your meditation.

In my experience, meditation—supplemented with psilocybin magic mushrooms, conducted at sacred times, whilst aligning your body to Earth’s magnetic axis—provides a greater certainty of transcending your body-mind in space-time and expanding your awareness within and beyond objective reality, than just meditation alone.

You can know more about this fascinating journey toward understanding yourself as consciousness by following this blog series or getting a copy of Discovering Ritual Meditation: Transcendental Healing and Self-Realization (Click to book).

This blog, the third in a series, Meditation & Magic Mushrooms, aims to share the Ritual Meditation method for expanding your consciousness.

1. Meditation & Magic Mushrooms Overview
2. How to Meditate for Presence and Rituals
3. How to Safely Meditate with Magic Mushrooms
4. My Expanded Consciousness Experiences
5. Self Realization & Presence
6. Spiritual Awakening & Spiritual Healing
7. The Medical Benefits of Psilocybin Magic Mushrooms
8. The Archeology of Meditation & Magic Mushrooms
9. The Birds & Bees of Psychedelics

Taking Responsibility for Your Practice

You should NOT attempt to conduct Ritual Meditation or use Meditation & Magic Mushrooms without first gaining a thorough understanding of the practice and taking full responsibility for your practice.

There are serious health, safety, and legal considerations that you must fully understand and respect beforehand. You must accept full responsibility and legal, civil, and moral liabilities for using this blog’s information. Use of this blog’s information is at your full discretion and is provided with strict caveats.

You must be made aware that permanent changes to the mind and your awareness will take place, and you may make big life decisions based on these experiences that could affect your partner, family, professional, and life circumstances. My view is if Meditation & Magic Mushrooms is conducted with real humility, prepared for in a sacred manner, and integrated into a broader consciousness, healing, and life plan then good things will manifest.

Ritual Meditation is provided on an as-is basis. It is an ancient ritual method I discovered, reverse engineered, and test-piloted. I share my findings and experiences with the best of intentions. Because you are not under my supervisory or associated medical care in a legal jurisdiction and you have not signed necessary waivers of liability beforehand, I cannot accept any liability from your practice of these ritual methods. You must accept full responsibility for your practice if you use the Ritual Meditation method as described in this blog series and in my book Discovering Ritual Meditation.

An A–Z Guide on Conducting Ritual Meditation

At its simplest level, Ritual Meditation—Meditation & Magic Mushrooms—involves an eyes-closed, focused-attention meditation method, conducted in sensory silence at sacred time (solstices, equinoxes[1]) under the influence of psilocybin magic mushrooms. Preparation and the setting of appropriate ritual intentions are important determinants of ritual outcome—echoing louder the more experience I gather.

I conduct Meditation & Magic Mushrooms up to four times yearly at sacred times—winter solstice sunrise, summer solstice sunset, and the equinoxes (new moon/sunrise, full moon/sunset). Because special environmental energies peak around these times of the year, they were revered by the Sun god religions of ancient Egypt, India, and Central and South America as their most important sacred ritual times.

Enhanced alpha brainwave voltages over the frontal brain are one of the key electrical signatures of the brain during deep meditation and in self-realized states (chapters 6–8 DRM). Science shows that we can enhance naturally-produced alpha brainwave voltages at these particular times of the day and year through a process called “brainwave entrainment.” This is possible because these sacred times correspond with peaks in Earth’s electromagnetic (solstices, sunrises/sets) and magnetic fields (equinoxes, moon phase), respectively. What this means is that when we meditate during these sacred times, this timing naturally “supplements” our alpha brainwave voltages, which helps us change our state of consciousness, or to attain a stronger presence (silent, time flies).[2]

Before engaging in Ritual Meditation for the first time, it is best to take it easy and become acquainted with low doses of psilocybin magic mushrooms while in nature or during regular meditation practice. This permits you to make a connection with the magic mushrooms, know your real self in presence, and learn to practice meditation under their influence. Low doses of magic mushrooms are great for inducing presence and silencing the mind. This prepares you for awareness in presence, which can then be expanded during Ritual Meditation without an uncomfortable shock or surprise!

Quick Reference Guide

• Fully accept responsibility for your health and safety, and abide by the law.
• Early Preparation: start a mushroom grow kit in time, increase your meditation (different types), eat healthily, minimize toxic consumptions, consider your ritual intentions.
• Final 3 Days Preparation: increase your meditation in your sacred space, be in nature, fast, do daily sweat lodges, make offerings-prayers-intentions in presence, conduct a ceremonial fire.
• Ritual Meditation: eyes-closed meditation, dark-silent, sacredly timed (solstices, equinoxes) with magic mushrooms, and magnetically align your meditating body.
• Integration: be in nature and quiet, take time to integrate experience, write notes. Integrate into broader consciousness and life plan. Who are you…?

Preparing to Expand Your Consciousness

The most important part of planning is considering our ritual intentions well in advance and ensuring we create grace. We create grace the more in presence and in gratitude we are, the more we innately help others, and by our thoughts and actions between rituals.

Secondly, preparation entails securing a supply of magic mushrooms in good time, deciding where to conduct the ritual, and ensuring that we can clear the decks beforehand with regards to all our obligations—this is “me time.”

Being in nature for the final three days is essential. Having a day or two after the ritual for quiet reflection in nature is really beneficial too.

Acquiring Magic Mushrooms

For readily accessing magic mushrooms you essentially have two options: using a magic mushroom grow kit or purchasing ready-to-consume magic mushroom truffles. I prefer psilocybin magic mushrooms from grow kits, like the McKenna or Golden Teacher varieties. Grow kits give me some form of control over quality and in creating a special connection with the mushrooms during their growth.

I also like a back-up plan, and magic truffles are useful for that.

Magic mushrooms are simple to grow. Instructions are usually available from retailers online. I’ve stored grow kits, based on retailer advice, in the fridge for two months before successfully cultivating them. Check the legal status in your country beforehand and understand any risks.

Final Week Ritual Meditation Preparation

My ritual preparation follows some basic principles over the final week before the Ritual Meditation takes place. Namely, I spend a lot of time in nature, meditating, being present, and making frequent prayers and offerings from dawn to bedtime.

Three days before, I completely disconnect from everything and everyone, strictly fast each of those three days, and I do daily sweat lodges.

It is important to set purposeful and realistic ritual intentions beforehand, as these direct our experience. Holding a fire ceremony is where I formally set my ritual intentions (in presence).

• Eat healthy food and minimize toxic/intoxicating consumptions:
  1. In the month beforehand—eat a healthy diet with as much fresh fruit and vegetables as possible. Avoid killed animal protein. Ideal foods include fresh fruit and vegetables, nuts, beans, rice, whole grains, popcorn, vegetable soups, salads, herbs, eggs, cheese, herbal teas, and water.
  2. In the final week—stop consumption of all alcohol, drugs, caffeine-containing drinks, cigarettes, and other brain stimulants.
  3. In the final week—avoid any type of sexual expression.
• Increase daily meditation:

One to two weeks beforehand—increase your eyes-closed meditation to two one-hour sessions each day. My Ritual Meditation trips can last 3–5 hours, so longer and more focused meditations in the final two weeks prepares me for the extended Ritual Meditation experience. Please refer to a previous blog for tips on improving your meditation focus and concentration (see M&M Blog 2).

• Fast for three days:

Three days beforehand—fast each day. This means strictly no food or calorific liquids, only teas, broths, and water. Fasting is not easy, but it does get easier the more you do it. If a full three days of fasting is not possible, then aim to fast for the final day beforehand.

Above all—be sensible and safe. If it doesn’t feel right—eat some food.

Prayers, Offerings & Intentions

There is a common denominator underpinning the effectiveness of prayers, and in setting ritual intentions, all of which are crucially important to the ritual’s outcome and effectiveness—to be effective we must be present when we do these things.

In presence, as earth-bound, individuated consciousness, we commune with our individuated consciousness (higher self) beyond space-time and objective reality, which is directly connected with pure Consciousness (God) as Unity awareness.

Setting Ritual Intentions

Ritual intentions are like a special form of prayer that communicates directly with our expanded Consciousness from presence. This lets pure Consciousness know we are consciously aware of our need for help to heal, awaken, self-realize, or do spiritual warrior work. We literally shape the ritual experience with our intention-setting.

I start to consider my ritual intentions in the months to weeks leading up to my next Ritual Meditation by listening to my inner silent voice. I focus solely on healing, personal transformation (emotion transformation, and heart and feminine channel opening), and spiritual warrior (collective healing) intentions. I avoid being specific in my intentions or requests—because only pure Consciousness knows what we need.

For example, I do not ask to experience ego death/rebirth, or chakra and Kundalini activation etc. I used a more general prayer-intention in my early test-pilot experiences, as the following prayer-intention demonstrates:

Pure consciousness, please look after me during my ritual and deliver me back safely and with more innate love, compassion, acceptance and kindness in all my feelings, thoughts, words, and actions. I trust you know what I need and I, therefore, submit myself fully to your realm and care. Please bring me to you and help me heal, awaken me to the real nature of who I am and permanently open my heart. Lets these spiritual qualities be innately present, so that I may be of benefit to other people, life, and our planet. Thank you.

This sort of general healing intention led to five of my chakra activations, including Kundalini and multiple heart chakra activations, along with numerous Unity/Satcitananda experiences, and profound psychoemotional healing.

You can read some of my trip report blogs to get other ritual intention ideas for healing, awakening, and self-realization.

The Ceremonial Fire

Conduct a fire ceremony the evening before your winter solstice sunrise and equinox sunrise/new moon ritual, or just before the ritual at the summer solstice sunset or sunset/full moon/equinox ritual. Please refer to a previous blog on conducting ceremonial fires, including an invocation, for a detailed description.

Conducting Ritual Meditation

In addition to sacred preparation Ritual Meditation has three main elements: 1) Sacred Space, 2) Sacred Time, and 3) Sacred Ritual.

One—Sacred Space

Sacred space encompasses the space where you will conduct your Ritual Meditation. Because we’re trying to replicate the silence of the pyramid and temple tunnels, chambers, and sanctums used by our ancestors for conducting their rituals, make your place sacred silent, dark, and comfortable. Sensory isolation permits you to significantly lower brain activity, thus helping you attain presence.

In the days prior to the Ritual Meditation I create a sacred circle around, or close to, the space where I meditate. This sacred circle symbolizes our collective, earthbound consciousness and honors all elements of creation and sacred time. The circle demarcates earth bound by the cardinal and solstice directions acting as pillars between heaven & earth, and the five elements constituting all earth’s life—earth, air, water, fire, and love-ether. It honors our ancestors and all human and non-human spirits. All of this under the heavens and subject to the One that is all (i.e., God, Allah, Unity etc.).

I place freshly picked flowers around the various directions. Inside the circle you can lay sacred objects, like a Buddha, Maitreya, Lao Tzu, Jesus statue, a cross, ankh etc., or special rocks and stones. I place the growing magic mushrooms inside the circle too.

Figure 1: This is my indoor fire circle maintained in my house 24/7. I sit around this each morning or whenever I feel like connecting more closely with my emptiness.

During the Ritual Meditation I align my meditating body with magnetic north (for those in the Northern Hemisphere; vice versa for the Southern Hemisphere). If you are sitting in front of a big volcano (preferable!), then sit facing that, instead.

Two—Sacred Time

The idea behind conducting sacred rituals at sacred time is based on bringing as many sacred time elements together to increase the impact on the ritual meditator’s brain via the enhancement of alpha brainwave voltages. This assists the brain’s process for “switching” the state of consciousness and with its brain mapping.

I start my Ritual Meditation 60–90 minutes before sunrise or sunset on those designated four sacred days each year. These sacred dates and times vary by year and region, so click on the meditation calendar (http://ritualmeditation.com/meditation-calendar/) for location-specific sun and moon rises/sets. Dates for the solstices and equinoxes (until 2020) are also provided. This way you can identify the sacred times for your location and time things just right.

Three—Sacred Ritual

Conducting Your Meditation & Magic Mushrooms

My preference is to conduct Ritual Meditation by myself in sensory silence in my sacred space—no noise or interruptions. I prefer not to conduct it with other people in close proximity because being solitary permits me to focus on myself-as-consciousness without distractions.

For those new to Ritual Meditation, I recommend you have a spotter silently in your meditation vicinity. A spotter be would someone you deeply trust and can communicate with at an intimate level of connection, and someone who understands you well. This person should not participate in using psychedelics with you, and they should keep their distance during the ritual unless you need them. You should also ensure your spotter has the contact details for your physician, psychologist, or a spiritual crisis/emergence network just in case.

I consume 50 grams of fresh psilocybin magic mushrooms (5 gram dried) just before I’m about to start my eyes-closed meditation. I blend these with a relatively strong cold passionflower tea and some fresh lime juice. Before drinking, I thank the magic mushrooms and ask them to help me on my healing journey with my specific ritual intention and to protect me and give me a safe return.

You should “peak in presence, connectivity, humility, intention, gratitude” in that moment! Just as you’re about to take that magic elixir of immortality!

Gently relax into your meditation and presence. Mild visuals will arise within 15–20 minutes of starting your meditation and will grow in intensity, color, form, and feelings as the ritual progresses. Sometimes as the meditation progresses there can be intense distractions, like automatic weird non-sensical thoughts and apparitions, or feelings of horniness intruding, so this is where you see the real value of your meditation practice kick in to keep you focused to get your awareness through the tunnel i.e., a moving ‘space-time discontinuum’.

Reemergence and Integration

In general, you’ll know when your Ritual Meditation is finished. There’s usually an urge to “come back” even though you will still be witnessing an expanded state of consciousness.

I like to sit and be silent in this immediate post-ritual phase because much insight and recall arises in this silence. For this reason, I’ve named the post-ritual phase “reemergence and integration.” I tend to do this outside in silence, in marvel of, and in love with nature. I tend to hug trees, kiss the plants, cry, and things like that. It’s very easy to find gratitude in everything at this time, and it’s a great time to express this to pure Consciousness, Mother Nature, and to who ever else you feel like.

Initially you don’t have a language for the transcendental realm, so finding the words can be very challenging. If you can think straight (J), it’s helpful to record insights and revelations as soon as you practically can. It’s a bit like recalling dreams: the further you are from it, the harder to recall what happened and its significance.

In the context of healing, a lot of memories, thoughts, feelings, and emotions can surface. My advice is just let this naturally flow and avoid trying to block it or judge yourself or others. It is all good material for learning about yourself, even if it isn’t pleasant.

Once the Ritual Meditation is over, you will be hungry, so be prepared with fresh and healthy foods at your disposal. I tend to eat fresh fruit to reawaken my digestive system. Avoid eating heavy or processed foods, and too much too soon.

You will also benefit from a day or two of staying at home and being isolated from other people after your ritual. In the days, weeks, and months following your Ritual Meditation, reflect and explore the insights that you came upon. I like to sit on my findings for weeks or months before acting. I try to remain flexible, so my understanding of the experience and insights can evolve and deepen. Act positively upon the insights, as your heart tells you. Saying sorry with humility is not so hard.

To give you greater motivation and insight in your journey and Ritual Meditation practice, in next month’s blog you’ll find the more profound experiences that constitute my journey toward and beyond self-realization. This will then be followed by how to integrate Ritual Meditation into a comprehensive yearly plan to help you on your awakening and healing journey.

Have a great month and let me know your thoughts or questions—I’ll be happy to help if I can. Contact me if you wish.

Thank you.

My best wishes to you.

Carlton Brown

Discovering Ritual Meditation: Transcendental Healing and Self-Realization
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1. Start your meditation 60–90 minutes before the winter solstice sunrise, summer solstice sunset, an at/around the equinoxes (full or new moon).
2. http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Ritual-Meditation-Transcendental-Self-Realization-ebook/dp/B00HWIJ8EW/ or http://ritualmeditation.com/resource-library/
3. Avalon Magic Plants, Zamnesia, Magic Truffles, and Shayanashop

The purpose for this blog is to share with you what Ritual Meditation is about and how it relates to spiritually awakening, profound psychological and emotional healing, self-realization, and innately emanating your awareness from presence.

This blog is the first in a series, Meditation & Magic Mushrooms, and will be complemented with blogs on:

1. Meditation & Magic Mushrooms Overview
2. How to Meditate for Presence and Rituals
3. How to Safely Meditate with Magic Mushrooms
4. My Expanded Consciousness Experiences
5. Self Realization & Presence
6. Spiritual Awakening & Spiritual Healing
7. The Medical Benefits of Psilocybin Magic Mushrooms
8. The Archeology of Meditation & Magic Mushrooms
9. The Birds & Bees of Psychedelics

My Journey

My journey of discovery was born initially in my mind as a young child and later in the sands of modern day Egypt. Since my early childhood, I was not only fascinated by Giza’s Great Pyramid, but also I felt a distinct connection and draw to it. As an adult, I got the opportunity to meditate in Pharaoh Khufu’s sarcophagus in the King’s Chamber.

Figure 1: Meditating in the sarcophagus inside the Kings Chamber (The Great Pyramid, Giza) in 2009.

During this meditation a heartfelt change occurred inside of me. An awareness or confirmation of my purpose, arose from deep within. It felt like i was meant to be there, and always knew that. The year before I had discovered the ancient Sun god religion priesthoods’ ritual methods for accessing an expanded consciousness, with the religion of Ra and Giza my primary inspirations.

In developing Ritual Meditation from these findings, and in becoming the ritual method’s test-pilot, pure Consciousness showed me the structure of consciousness—how as awareness I relate to God, and God to me—and how to use these ritual methods to spiritually awaken, profoundly heal, and to self-realize.

I came to realize the only knowledge worth having is methods for expanding our awareness—to reveal that sense of ‘I am’—within and beyond objective reality. Everything spiritually possible and profoundly healing stems from innately living in presence and periodically moving one’s awareness within and beyond objective reality. Healing has its natural ways of happening when we move or expand our awareness beyond objective reality i.e., Unity/Satcitananda, energy fields and meridians unblocking, chakra/kundalini activations (all 7, heart multiple times is possible, 3rd eye/crown 24/7 activation), and self-realization (vanishing one’s perceived need to heal). In the post-self-realized life living with awareness innately emanating from presence we witness the play of consciousness helping us transform our emotions and conditioning i.e., you see them with awareness and get to transform them. Kind of like an adult puberty! All of the above happened to me, and all i ever did was humbly intend to heal, request that for others, and trust in my journey as consciousness.

Who Will Benefit from This Blog and Blog Series…?

This blog series may be beneficial to you if:

• you want a method for sacredly (safely) using magic mushrooms for self-exploration;
• you already meditate and know profound spiritual experiences are possible—but don’t know how;
• you already understand that magic mushrooms can dramatically improve the symptoms (see Medical Benefits of Psychedelics) and quality of life for people with an array of psychoemotional issues relating to death anxiety, depression, anxiety, chemical addictions, post-traumatic stress, and childhood and sexual abuse—but don’t know how to use them; and/or
• you might also wish to make Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now your reality—and innately emanate your awareness from presence.

The Sun God Religions’ Priestly Ritual Methods

Through my lifelong interests in pyramid archaeology and my curiosity for who God is, I discovered the ancient Sun god religion priesthoods’ ritual methods for accessing expanded states of consciousness and self-realizing. I found these ritual methods symbolically embedded in the deity art and icons of the Sun god religions of ancient Egypt, India, and Central and South America. This shared archaeological fingerprint spans more than five millennia of human history and provides a rich validation for the use of meditation and magic mushrooms (and other entheogens) in human consciousness endeavors.[1]

Figure 2: Visual similarities between a young magic mushroom (Psilocybe cubensis) and Egyptian crowns containing the Hedjet (mushroom primordium shape) [2]. Ancient Egyptian deity and pharaoh art and icons were used to symbolically depict ‘heads or minds under the influence of sacred time and entheogens’. This is elaborated on in Discovering Ritual Meditation. (A) Osiris wearing his Atef on the wall of Nefertari´s tomb (1295-1255 BCE), personifying a magic mushroom incorporating V47 degree solstice symbolizing angle. He was also patron deity of the barley adorning his V47 degree solstice angled crook & staff. This depiction of Osiris is rich in ritual symbolism to my eyes. (B) A Psilocybe cubensis primordium with its hedjet-shaped, bulbous base and demarcated brown top with a zone of transition in the primordium´s neck—these grow naturally on sterilized barley (i.e. after lightning strikes). (C) A pschent crown, containing a mushroom primordium shaped object, worn by Horus on a wall of the Kom Ombo Temple, also depicts an electromagnetic coil (solstice) and serpent (Uraeus; goddess Wadjet as equinox) as sacred time symbols.[3]

Ritual Meditation and Transcendental Self-Inquiry methods were derived from these discoveries.

Ritual Meditation is a supplemented form of meditation, where entheogens are used to provide ‘meditation related’ brain chemicals, and by conducting rituals at sacred time (solstices, equinoxes) we are able to naturally enhance our alpha brainwave voltages. Sacred time’s alpha brainwave voltage supplementation (brainwave entrainment) ensures minimum voltage thresholds are attained within the brain’s meditation / consciousness related brain circuits. By supplementing meditation we ensure our awareness has a greater opportunity to move beyond presence and the confines of the body-mind in space and time. I am beginning to learn that we can direct these experiences by setting appropriate ritual intentions before our rituals i.e., healing, awakening, self-realizing, spiritual warrior and our collective healing. Consciousness then works with us during these experiences to guide these personal revelations in our awareness.

An infinite array of transcendental and mystic experiences are possible. Stanislav Grof[4]^,[5] and Ron Krumpos (free)[6] respectively provide a great understanding of consciousness and the types of experiences to which I’m referring from the perspectives of transpersonal psychology and the mystics of our great religions. They provide a consciousness-navigating language, which enhances our ability to comprehend the kinds of experiences resulting from the practice of Ritual Meditation and Transcendental Self-Inquiry.

Conducting Ritual Meditation

What: Ritual Meditation involves the following essential elements:

• eyes-closed meditation method (Click here to learn how.)
• sensory silence (dark and silent)
• sacred timing (when)
• the careful ingestion of psilocybin cubensis magic mushrooms.

How: The meditator aligns their meditating body with Earth’s north-south magnetic axis to enhance connectivity to cosmic energies (see Magnetosphere, and Heliospheric current sheet).

When: Ritual Meditation is practiced four times annually:

• at the winter solstice sunrise,
• at the summer solstice sunset, and
• at the spring and autumn equinoxes: new moon at sunrise or full moon at sunset.

Sacred time means conducting rituals 60–90 minutes before sunrise or sunset at the four designated times each year. This timing of day and year ensures the meditator’s alpha brainwave voltages are maximally supplemented. This voltage supplementation augments the brain process engaged by meditation, which moves one’s awareness beyond objective reality i.e. altered states of consciousness.

Please note: Sacred (safe) preparation is essential for Ritual Meditation, including:

• generating healing and/or awakening intentions (months to weeks beforehand)
• fasting and cleansing (3 days prior)
• being barefoot and be in nature (3 days prior)
• conducting ceremonial fires and offerings (3 days prior),
• carefully setting ritual intentions (weeks beforehand, 3 days prior), and
• switching your life completely off; all work, electronics, social media, phone, books, movies, people.

This sacred (safe) preparation helps positively direct your experiences to better enable healing, spiritual awakening, and self-realization. A definitive version of Ritual Meditation, including health and safety, and your legal obligations, is provided in my book Discovering Ritual Meditation: Transcendental Healing and Self-Realization.

Learning to Meditate the Easy Way

Learning to meditate can be short-circuited by understanding that meditation is simply a method of bringing our awareness into presence.

You will know you’re present when you are aware of your breath and one or two senses simultaneously, i.e., sight, sound, air flow over the skin, smell etc. Silence then naturally arises, without you forcing it, and from here we simply witness the emergence of body, feelings, senses, and thoughts from silence. As we progress with time the spaces of silence increase and a deep inner peace arises. Meditation is naturally enhanced at sunrise and sunset (enhances alpha brainwave voltages), and the sounds of birds and insects at these times greatly facilitate our awareness of presence, and sense of joy.

You can Learn How to Meditate on my website.

How to Conduct Self-Inquiry and Self-Realize

What is self-inquiry and self-realization?

Self-inquiry is simply a means of asking “Who am I?” from a different perspective or different locus of awareness than the busy thinking-ego mind projecting itself in fictional time, i.e., not in presence.

Why do we need to ask, “Who am I?”

Because it’s the most important question humans can ever ask themselves. A great paradoxical riddle of self-identity is posed to every member of the human species. The reality is we are eternal consciousness witnessed in presence, and beyond the confines of body-mind in space and time. As young infants a counterfeit ego develops and hijacks our awareness, moving that awareness from presence into fictional time—where we get lost life after life. Self-inquiry helps us plug back into our true sense of self-identity—consciousness in presence. Living in the awareness of presence transforms the human mind and its experience of life.

Put another way, unless you’ve self-realized, who you think you are is not who you really are! Life’s grand purpose contains a paradoxical riddle of self-identity that we must all eventually solve—this lifetime or another. Conducting self-inquiry beyond objective reality makes it easier to create the separation in our awareness. Self-realization is the most profound experience a human can ever have and is the reason we’re born again and again—until we have that experience.

Transcendental Self-Inquiry is a method to self-realize conducted while you are awareness beyond body-mind in space and time. This method was created by fusing Ritual Meditation with Mooji/Hindu-Advaita’s ‘s imperative for self-inquiry. We will review this much more in a future blog.

What are the results of attaining self-realization?

The consequences for self-realization are we become aware that we are eternal consciousness, within and beyond objective reality, and that we will live on after death. Witnessing this experience beyond objective reality is literally mind-blowing. With self-realization the brain is “remapped,” so our awareness innately emanates from presence in both heart and mind. I think Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now explains very well how living in presence then transforms your mind and life.

In my case, my perceived need to heal from childhood abuse simply vanished, and I then experienced rapture in eternity as Unity consciousness. During this experience my 3rd eye / crown chakra opened, completing the activation of all 7 chakras/kundalini. My crown chakra opening was witnessed as a lotus flower opening on my forehead whilst a Buddha like entity beyond objective reality. Fourteen months later it still buzzes 24/7, especially around volcanoes. I found forgiveness and opened a door to my family after decades of absence. I now live in presence, and witness the play of consciousness helping me transform my old conditioning. There is love and kindness innately in my heart now, where I only really knew that for animals before. Life changed for the better, but it’s really just a new beginning. In the post-self-realized world we simply clean our acts up, with awareness coming from presence. The right things then happen. It feels like an adult puberty!

Words like spiritual warrior and revolution now have meaning.

The Mind Transformation Plan

Ritual Meditation and Transcendental Self-Inquiry are integrated into a broader plan for spiritual awakening, healing, and self-realization (Mind Transformation Plan). The Mind Transformation Plan is designed to create a more connected, sacred, mind-nurturing, healthy context in which to undertake self-inquiry, spiritual awakening, and healing.

The Mind Transformation Plan involves conducting quarterly Ritual Meditation, daily meditation(s), regular self-inquiry (who are you as a person? i.e., our relationships and our conditioning), daily new learning (psychology, spiritual media), a healthy diet and way of life, and culminating in conducting Transcendental Self-Inquiry to self-realize. Thereafter, it’s really just a new beginning!

Health, Safety & Legal

Specific instructions for using Ritual Meditation and Transcendental Self-Inquiry methods, and their legal, health and safety guidance are provided in my book (Discovering Ritual Meditation). This is the only definitive source for these ritual methods, and no other source will suffice.

It is your responsibility to thoroughly comprehend the legal, health, and safety implications of using entheogens, and in using the methods contained in my book. These sacraments are illegal in many countries, so you are fully responsible for ascertaining your country’s legal status for magic mushrooms, and you must take full responsibility for any risks you take. Above all else realize these sacraments have real potential for side effects (nausea, vomiting, psychosis, anxiety, panic, etc.), unpleasant experiences (psychosis, insanity and terror, symbolically witnessing your death, etc.), bad side effects when combined with other medications (brain, heart, and cardiovascular), and, in rare cases, death—so please treat your consciousness and its connection with Unity with respect. Otherwise, bad stuff happens.

Be sacred, be safe, and inform your consciousness you’re ready to fly! Honesty, humility, and healing &/or awakening intentions are your greatest friends. That’s how we create grace.

Remember too—you also have to do the deep personal work, and this takes time. The good news is that after self-realization we become aware of the play of consciousness in our momentary life as she shows us the things we need to see to help bring us to our love-transformed perfection.

My best wishes to you.

Love.

Carlton Brown

Author of Discovering Ritual Meditation: Transcendental Healing and Self-Realization

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[1] Discovering Ritual Meditation: Transcendental Healing and Self-Inquiry. http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Ritual-Meditation-Transcendental-Self-Realization-ebook/dp/B00HWIJ8EW/ or https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26367834-discovering-ritual-meditation

[2] Stephen R. Berlant. The entheomycological origin of Egyptian crowns and the esoteric underpinnings of Egyptian religion,. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 102 (2005) 275–288.

[3] Composite image created by Carlton Brown of ancient Egyptian temple art comprising modified original works (annotations, cropping; by the author); (A) Osiris: a modified image created by Carlton Brown / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain. original work by mursal / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Osiris-tomb-of-Nefertari.jpg. (B) Carlton Brown / Public Domain. (C) original work by Rémih / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_relief_Kom_Ombo13.JPG.

[4] Stanislav Grof. LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious. M.D. Park Street Press; 4th edition (12 Feb 2009). ASIN: B003GDFROM.

[5] Stanislav Grof. Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift. Stream of Experience Productions (28 June 2012).

[6] R.D. Krumpos. The Greatest Achievement in Life: Five Traditions of Mysticism, Mystical Approaches to Life. http://www.suprarational.org/.

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