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Legally High: Altered States without Drugs
Altered states of consciousness, or trance states, are just as normal as the waking reality most of us experience every day. Trance can enhance creativity, deepen relationships and bring you closer to your spiritual center. Sure, these states can be accessed with drugs or by putting the body under intense stress. But you can also alter the way you experience the world naturally by learning to "get high" by controlling your own brain wave patterns with music, trance dancing, drumming, lucid dreaming, meditation & guided visualizations, chanting, brainwave tweaking "mind machines", and various other mind-altering techniques, both ancient and modern. Stewart Wavell suggested in 1966 that one day trances will become as accessible to us in western civilisation as the electric light, and that this will open ‘immense new possibilities’. He felt the consequences of this will be felt in diverse fields from space travel to pop music - a prophetic statement in view of what is currently occurring in the rave culture. Wavell refers to trance as ‘a state of liberation’, freeing the trancers from the bounds of ordinary reality, from ‘the prison of the senses’, and Wavell suggests that perhaps through trance it will be possible to transcend space and time. This could well be why there is a particular awareness in rave culture of ideas such as evolving consciousness and spirituality; for example in 1996, raves in Johannesburg had names such as Spiritual Awakening and Operation 1: Consciousness . A new rave culture magazine was launched in South Africa in December 1995 called Evolver, combining in this title references to both Ecstasy and Evolution. "You've got absolutely amazing frequencies coming out to those speaker boxes. And once you start dancing for a while you just start to resonate with those frequencies, they go right through your whole cellular structure, so that your whole body starts to vibrate. And when you're all dancing en masse, with a number of other people, you all start to vibrate with that frequency, then the whole dance floor becomes a single organism." - Krusty, DJ, convenor of Rainbow Serpent Festival in an interview in the film Dances of Ecstasy by Michelle Mahrer and Nicole Ma. Meditation, yoga, dancing, chanting, drumming, listening to certain sound patterns or watching specific patterns of flashing lights can alter consciousness. Working with your dreams, especially lucid dreams, can also expand consciousness in waking life. We human beings use such small portions of our brains; perhaps conscious access to these altered states is the key to tapping into the rest. Author ~ Catresea Ann Canivan |
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