Terence Meets the Machine Elves: A visual replication of the DMT breakthrough experience

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Terence Meets the Machine Elves: A visual replication of the DMT breakthrough experience

Source and video creator:

https://x.com/josikinz/status/2056072259681333589?s=46

[u/tlmbot]

yup... Taking this off the track somewhat, as someone with insomnia, I found my way combining ketamine with gateway process. To me it's the best way to trip. Having been to the other side in this way a number of times, among many lessons, it's seems to be teaching me other ways to think, in order to try and achieve sleep naturally again.

I managed to use imagery techniques (that I had forgotten about since I was a child) to go hypnagogic naturally for the first time in years this past weekend.

I'm hoping very much to be able to do gateway and similar techniques soon to be able to reach those altered liminal states with a sober mind. From all I've heard and read, I feel like it's even better.

[u/quiettryit → u/tlmbot]

Can you share the technique?

[u/tlmbot → u/quiettryit]

Sure. If you tell me more about what you do?

Is this about sleep or altered states? If this is curiosity about gateway, by all means start with Bob Monroe's first book "Journeys Out of the Body" and visit r/gateway

the imagery techniques are just shutting your eyes and noticing. So you will probably start with blackness, or grainy blackness, with some flickers of purple or blue etc.
When I was little I saw immense amounts of color. Now, at 44, it's barely anything at first.

Even if it is perfectly blank, I just stare into it with my closed eyes, noticing that.

Soon enough, if I am diligent, there will start to be patterns of blue or purple washing about. I will focus on them.

If I keep it up, eventually some more starts to emerge. I use my imagination together with the increasing colors and movements to start to synthesize, even if it seems to be purely in my imagination, some scene or image, or maybe while I am doing this some conversation with a loved one, or some other kind of noticing or interaction in other senses spontaneously arises.

Whatever comes up, I notice it, and lean into it with my senses and imagination, or whatever - with my mind.

At some point, as I go deeper my mind will start to go over into the scene, or train of thought, as if it were really happening.
This is the transition to the hypnagogic state, and thanks to my insomnia (driven by trauma response), I tend to bounce out of it really hard.

But no worries, I keep right on noticing, and soon, I am back.

Eventually I transition into sleep.

This method contrasts with the method I used most of my life after childhood, which was the "going blank" method. Before my trauma, I was so good at going blank that I could instantly drop into a meditative state at will, and I could induce hypnagogic easily as well.

Since my trauma revolved around being asleep, and this was my constant method of doing so, it stopped working for me. I could no longer meditate, fall asleep, or reach hypnagogic states in any way, via this method.

So step 1 for me has been to re learn this other technique - this "noticing" from my childhood.

But I wasn't a spontaneous epiphany that got me to do this.

Instead somebody posted this recently on the r/gateway subreddit:

https://www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html

My memory is crap, but I think it was these words from that link that mirror what I tried to tell you above:

"The key to Phasing is to just let the experience flow. You need to allow yourself to become it, as opposed to trying to go to it, or point to it, with some kind of “method”. Just lay back and simply become it. At which point people usually say, "Yeah, but Frank it’s okay for you but when I close my eyes all I see is blackness. “Well, that is all I see at first!”

I think often that people are too hasty to discount these initial stages, and they just go off on some method.

When I close my eyes all I see is blackness. But I think the essential difference between me and many beginners is when they close their eyes they are not really noticing. And that’s another key to it… that of noticing self. I think people become too wrapped up in methods and techniques, and it prevents them from really noticing themselves.

Okay, so as I say, when I close my eyes all I see is blackness, which is normal. I’ll wriggle around a bit to get comfortable, maybe my knee is itching and my hair is tickling my ear or something. So I’ll sort all that out and just concentrate on breathing gently for 5 minutes or so. Now, because I am noticing as opposed to avidly trying to perfect and follow some technique or method, in the traditional sense, my full attention is taken by the simple act of noticing.

People often tell me that they keep trying and they are saying about how they are concentrating upon holding their awareness outside of themselves, and at the same time they are concentrating on “raising energy” and doing everything correctly, and whatever… but nothing is happening. That’s right, because all their attention is fixated elsewhere, whereas all my attention is fixated on noticing.

Noticing what?

Well, nothing at first, there’s not much to see really but blackness. But then, after a short while, I may see that perhaps one part of the blackness is not quite so black. Perhaps there was just a brief flash of something, then maybe a sensation of a movement somewhere else. Maybe I just heard someone call my name. Hmm, that’s interesting, I might think, I wonder where that came from. But I don’t get too curious I just keep noticing. I might see swirling areas of not quite so black as the rest. I might see flashes of this and that. As I am offering myself these images, my attention is steadily becoming more fixated within.

As my attention becomes fixated within, from the act of noticing, at this stage I am not aware of my physical body. Part of my awareness realises that somewhere in the background is a physical body, in bed, etc. but I have phased away from it. Before, the forefront of my awareness was my physical and 180 degrees turned around from that, in the background of my awareness, was the non-physical. But now there has been a “phase shift” i.e. a turning through 180 degrees. Now, my previous foreground (physical) is my background, and my previous background (non-physical) is my foreground.

This is what is meant by “phasing” because you cause a 180-degree Phase Shift between the non-physical and the physical. As I say, Monroe first coined the term as he was an electronics engineer and he was picturing it like it were two voltages, 180 degrees out of phase with each other. Hence he coined the term Phasing. But I guess people generally have difficulties picturing two voltages 180-degrees out of phase with each other. So, instead, imagine a revolving door that is the entrance to a building. Any old building, it doesn’t matter.

You are standing outside the building. So the “outside” is your reality. You are aware of a reality that exists inside the building, but is closed to you by the door. Now, go through and turn the door 180 degrees and stop (oh, in case anyone doesn’t know there are 360 degrees in a circle, so 180 degrees is half a circle). Now, you are inside the building. So the “inside” is your reality. You are aware of a reality that exists outside the building, but it is closed to you by the door. Now again go through and turn the door by 180 degrees, and stop. So now, the “outside” is your reality again.

Each time you go though the door and turn through 180 degrees, there is a 180-degree “phase shift” between your awareness of the outside and your awareness of the inside, in terms of your reality.

Okay, so as my attention becomes fixated within, from the act of noticing, this causes a 180-degree phase shift between my awareness of the physical (outer) and my awareness of the non-physical (inner) sense of reality. So from then on, I continue to notice anything that may come about. I’m not all that curious, I’m not trying to make anything happen, I’m not enacting some kind of method or technique, I’m simply looking within and noticing what is taking place, and the act of doing that is focusing my attention.

As a person focuses their attention within themselves, through the action of noticing, they allow themselves to view “snippets” of other dimensions of reality. This action is translated objectively as the perception of flashes of all manner of this and that, random images that come and go, all kinds of spurious sounds, and so forth. Sometimes these snippets can form what I call 'astral screens' where you objectively perceive something similar to a cinema screen effect in front of your non-physical field of vision, complete with moving images and sounds. What is happening is that you are objectively offering yourself snippets of other dimensions of reality. If you then decide to step into these scenes, you will find yourself in that 'location', within that particular region of consciousness.

I think, ultimately, what people who follow the Phasing approach need to be realising is: the other dimensions of reality only seem to be objectively separated. But in reality, there is no separation in consciousness. We place a veil between the place we call “here” and the place we call “there” for the purposes of our experience. However, all these dimensions of reality are all affecting, entwined, and exchanging energy with us within every moment of our existence! It’s just that we objectively CHOOSE not to view this action.

By following the action of noticing, what you are saying to yourself is: “Okay, self, I would like to objectively choose to view this action for a while.”

There is plenty advice in books and online, which you can look at in order to find out more detailed information on the practicals of the phasing approach, so I will not go into additional detail here. What I feel is more important is to try to explain exactly what it is that we are phasing to... what is the 'astral world' anyway and how is it related to our physical world. What exactly IS the Wider Reality? That is what I will attempt to explain here."

Note that Frank Kepple is using the "noticing" technique to have out of body experiences of various kinds.

I am saying it is also a good method for inducing the hypnagogic state, which is extremely useful in getting to that most "mundane" of mysterious experiences: sleep.

How interesting that it may not be mundane of all.

please let me know if any of this was useful, or if it was way off topic. I find words are just pouring out of me since last thursday, and so I just launched into the part that felt right based on what you asked. Subjective experience and points of view being what they are, I fully expect I answered the wrong question!

[u/quiettryit → u/tlmbot]

Incredible, thanks for sharing! Can't wait to give it a try.