danabanana2
Rising Star
Here goes...
I don't know where to start and this will likely be a complete mess until I/we can sort it out but I have faith we can do it.
I think a good to think about it is to consider the body as an antenna. If you have taken dmt before, you have likely changed physically going into the trip - your back has straightened, your heart is beating faster and harder, and your breathing has intensified.
I think these 2 things are hand in hand - The DMT experience and the making of your body and mind into a suitable thing to tune in.
Consider the mind to be something that can be tuned and made into a more receptive antenna to see accurately how things really are. I.e. if you think harming innocent sentient beings is a good thing, by holding this view your antennae is crooked or broken and you will not see how things really are. As for changing your view into the correct one, I point you towards the Buddhas teachings. The 4 noble truths, the Eightfold noble path. Any questions regarding this might be better done on a Buddhist forum or at a monastery. I would be happy to try and answer here but it might clog up the board, and there are great monks and teachers out there.
As for the physical aspect, I am not sure why the Buddha or other monks did not teach this (below). Perhaps it is more for people growing up in western culture who have grown up sitting on chairs, sleeping on soft beds, who sit with poor posture looking at screens. Or maybe there are other reasons, I don't know. The Buddha advised to sit erect, cross legged - not with your arms wrapped around your legs. He also suggested to lie down in lions posture with the left left directly on top of the right leg with the body straight. So maybe this is a tutorial on how a lazy westerner can attain a proper sitting or laying posture.
Anyway... making your body into an excellent antenna -
This first occurred when I had a hemp tea in the evening (a few buds from a couple of plants I grew 2 summers ago). I ate the buds after I finished the tea then went to bed.
Feeling very relaxed I felt compelled or guided to do some hip stretches. I have a tight and slightly hunched neck and my sense that a stretch was working was that I felt something pull and release in my neck (from stretching my hips) I feel a slight click or pop in my neck if it is done right. In fact any stretch that resulted in this click/pop in my neck felt very right. After doing these stretches for a while I no longer felt the release in my neck from them and that's when I lay down on my right side, head on pillow - not to sleep, maintaining an awareness and wakefulness the whole time.
I then felt compelled to move the spine in a wave like motion. I tried various ways of doing that - waves starting from the base of the spine, moving up to the head, and waves going the other way, experimenting with the amplitude, speed and frequency.
I also found myself on my back making spinal waves in the other way like a shark, rather than a dolphin.
I will mention here I think the bud tea helped as it gets kind of bonkers but the tea helped me to not care at all about that.
I should also mention this was on the floor. I have been sleeping on the floor for a few years now (I have just a duvet laid on a wooden floor with carpet), as recommended by the Buddha. I'm not sure if would work so well on a soft bed as the body and spine need to be able to be stiff and straight and I think the hips sink into a soft bed. I should also mention that I have always done this in bed, in the late evening (with and without hemp tea)
Carrying on, making waves with the spine, I found that making the wave leading up to my head could reach further and further upward. It felt very healing to open up this part and this top part I have come to consider key but the lower parts are needed as the foundation I believe. opening up the top part... Imagine your neck was a curled fern bud - each wave feels like its prying the curled up part at the top slowly more and more open.
There came or point (or comes a point) where the muscles and coordination become known and you can keep tension on this top part of the neck that feels like it is tension prying the fern bud open - but without moving. This will also be supported by the spine below so you will end up lying on your right side, lying perfectly stiff and straight.
The other muscles are also involved holding this stiff posture. I remember at some point I was convulsing my arms, legs, ankles etc flexing them to their extremes. I don't know what the mechanism behind this was but it felt like it was to flush out the lymph and also activate the muscles so they could help in maintaining a stiff posture.
So... doing all this you come to a point where you are on your side, all the body is activated and working towards lengthening the spine. Blood will be pumping everywhere properly and you should be able to focus and think clearly.
This takes energy and also makes you thirsty so prepare a drink before hand. I also have felt compelled to have a squeezed lemon with the drink. (I just drink sparkling water or filtered rain water)
Part of you will want to relax but this will lesson the antenna so to speak so I end up making small pulses/waves in the spine as I am lying there. You may well have had slight visual experiences like having a microdose. Consider you are on the right path.
This phase is almost like a rest compared to the larger waves and movements which you can go back to if you feel you should.
Again always staying aware and wakeful.
In my memory there is a usually point where I lose focus and perhaps fall asleep, or something happens but I will suddenly be awake and I can feel it coming... I remember one time I heard something like a warning alarm and saw a red triangle, as if the mind was saying, "Get ready!!!"
The lightbulb in the head comes on, and the rest... well, if you know you know. Off to the ineffable.
I really hope this helps out and if you have any questions please ask away. I could talk for ages about the things I have learn't or just the mad and cool things I have experienced but I am not sure this would help others much so I will try and stick to the path of how to get there and experience this wonder for yourself.
I don't know where to start and this will likely be a complete mess until I/we can sort it out but I have faith we can do it.
I think a good to think about it is to consider the body as an antenna. If you have taken dmt before, you have likely changed physically going into the trip - your back has straightened, your heart is beating faster and harder, and your breathing has intensified.
I think these 2 things are hand in hand - The DMT experience and the making of your body and mind into a suitable thing to tune in.
Consider the mind to be something that can be tuned and made into a more receptive antenna to see accurately how things really are. I.e. if you think harming innocent sentient beings is a good thing, by holding this view your antennae is crooked or broken and you will not see how things really are. As for changing your view into the correct one, I point you towards the Buddhas teachings. The 4 noble truths, the Eightfold noble path. Any questions regarding this might be better done on a Buddhist forum or at a monastery. I would be happy to try and answer here but it might clog up the board, and there are great monks and teachers out there.
As for the physical aspect, I am not sure why the Buddha or other monks did not teach this (below). Perhaps it is more for people growing up in western culture who have grown up sitting on chairs, sleeping on soft beds, who sit with poor posture looking at screens. Or maybe there are other reasons, I don't know. The Buddha advised to sit erect, cross legged - not with your arms wrapped around your legs. He also suggested to lie down in lions posture with the left left directly on top of the right leg with the body straight. So maybe this is a tutorial on how a lazy westerner can attain a proper sitting or laying posture.
Anyway... making your body into an excellent antenna -
This first occurred when I had a hemp tea in the evening (a few buds from a couple of plants I grew 2 summers ago). I ate the buds after I finished the tea then went to bed.
Feeling very relaxed I felt compelled or guided to do some hip stretches. I have a tight and slightly hunched neck and my sense that a stretch was working was that I felt something pull and release in my neck (from stretching my hips) I feel a slight click or pop in my neck if it is done right. In fact any stretch that resulted in this click/pop in my neck felt very right. After doing these stretches for a while I no longer felt the release in my neck from them and that's when I lay down on my right side, head on pillow - not to sleep, maintaining an awareness and wakefulness the whole time.
I then felt compelled to move the spine in a wave like motion. I tried various ways of doing that - waves starting from the base of the spine, moving up to the head, and waves going the other way, experimenting with the amplitude, speed and frequency.
I also found myself on my back making spinal waves in the other way like a shark, rather than a dolphin.
I will mention here I think the bud tea helped as it gets kind of bonkers but the tea helped me to not care at all about that.
I should also mention this was on the floor. I have been sleeping on the floor for a few years now (I have just a duvet laid on a wooden floor with carpet), as recommended by the Buddha. I'm not sure if would work so well on a soft bed as the body and spine need to be able to be stiff and straight and I think the hips sink into a soft bed. I should also mention that I have always done this in bed, in the late evening (with and without hemp tea)
Carrying on, making waves with the spine, I found that making the wave leading up to my head could reach further and further upward. It felt very healing to open up this part and this top part I have come to consider key but the lower parts are needed as the foundation I believe. opening up the top part... Imagine your neck was a curled fern bud - each wave feels like its prying the curled up part at the top slowly more and more open.
There came or point (or comes a point) where the muscles and coordination become known and you can keep tension on this top part of the neck that feels like it is tension prying the fern bud open - but without moving. This will also be supported by the spine below so you will end up lying on your right side, lying perfectly stiff and straight.
The other muscles are also involved holding this stiff posture. I remember at some point I was convulsing my arms, legs, ankles etc flexing them to their extremes. I don't know what the mechanism behind this was but it felt like it was to flush out the lymph and also activate the muscles so they could help in maintaining a stiff posture.
So... doing all this you come to a point where you are on your side, all the body is activated and working towards lengthening the spine. Blood will be pumping everywhere properly and you should be able to focus and think clearly.
This takes energy and also makes you thirsty so prepare a drink before hand. I also have felt compelled to have a squeezed lemon with the drink. (I just drink sparkling water or filtered rain water)
Part of you will want to relax but this will lesson the antenna so to speak so I end up making small pulses/waves in the spine as I am lying there. You may well have had slight visual experiences like having a microdose. Consider you are on the right path.
This phase is almost like a rest compared to the larger waves and movements which you can go back to if you feel you should.
Again always staying aware and wakeful.
In my memory there is a usually point where I lose focus and perhaps fall asleep, or something happens but I will suddenly be awake and I can feel it coming... I remember one time I heard something like a warning alarm and saw a red triangle, as if the mind was saying, "Get ready!!!"
The lightbulb in the head comes on, and the rest... well, if you know you know. Off to the ineffable.
I really hope this helps out and if you have any questions please ask away. I could talk for ages about the things I have learn't or just the mad and cool things I have experienced but I am not sure this would help others much so I will try and stick to the path of how to get there and experience this wonder for yourself.
