The Larger World of Altered State Thinking (podcast)

Altered states, dreams, hypnosis, and psychedelics can expand creativity, deepen self-understanding, and reshape how we think.

“In the final stage of ego-lessness there is an ‘obscure knowledge’ that All is In all – that All is actually each. This is as near, I take it, as a finite mind can ever come to ‘perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe’.”
― Aldous Huxley, from The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

I’ve edited and republished a piece titled “The Larger World of Altered State Thinking,” subtitled “how altered states, dreams, hypnosis, and psychedelics can expand creativity, deepen self-understanding, and reshape how we think.” This version is written to be a faster read. You can find it on psychedelic.support: https://psychedelic.support/resources/larger-world-altered-states-thinking/.

The piece explores our two common, conscious modes of rational and emotional thought. It emphasizes we are less familiar and less adept in using our associative mode of thought. Associative thought is the stream of unpremeditated thoughts and feelings that jostle for attention in the backs of our minds. Associative thought is going on more often than our conscious thought but it’s subconscious. Associations are the origins of the words we speak to ourselves.

• Associative Thinking
• We Can Think Better
• Hallucinations as Insight
• Let the Batter Set