Re-Creational Alternatives to Involuntary Irreversible Metabolic ComaRe-Creational Alternatives to Involuntary Irreversible Metabolic Coma
There are a variety of techniques useful in experiencing “experimental dying,” reversible-voluntary exploration of the territory between body coma and brain death, sometimes called out-of-body experiences; or near-dying experiences. Others have termed these experiences astral travel or reincarnation memories
Leary took every opportunity to let people know that we have choices regarding how to die and, someday soon, we may have choices about whether to die.
—R.U. SIRIUS
Design for Dying
Meditation and Hypnosis
The classic yogic routes to exploration of non-ordinary states of consciousness, well-known to be labor-and time-intensive. Out of body experiences seem to be reserved for dying people or monks with ten plus years of intense meditation practice have. The aim is to attain an out-of-body experience, which involves a sensation of floating outside of one’s body and perceiving one’s physical body from a place outside one’s body.
Now there is a fast-track to getting out of our bodies. In his book, Adventures Beyond the Body: Proving Your Immortality Through Out-Of-Body Travel, William Buhlman outlines basic steps for stimulating an out-of-body experience. First is to use meditative techniques to get into a light trance state, which is expanded into a vibrational state, where you feel vibrations pulsating through your body. The final step is separating your astral body from the physical body.
Enthusiasts of Bhulman’s method report that it generally takes about two weeks of following his techniques to wake up in the dream state, climb out of your body and walk around your apartment.
Psychedelic Experiences
Re-creational—psychedelic—drugs can be used to access information and operational programs stored in the brain of the individual. In normal states of consciousness, these states are not available for voluntary access.
Aldous Huxley was ardently interested in both the dying experience and its parallels in the religious and mystical experiences induced by psychedelic drugs. Huxley used a hypnotic technique to bring his dying wife, Maria, into touch with the memory of ecstatic experiences that had occurred spontaneously on several occasions during her life, by guiding her toward these mystical states of consciousness as death was approaching.
In a letter to Humphry Osmond, a psychiatrist and pioneer in psychedelic research who introduced him to LSD and mescaline, Huxley wrote: “My own experience with Maria convinced me that the living can do a great deal to make the passage easier for the dying, to raise the most purely physiological act of human existence to the level of consciousness and perhaps even of spirituality.”
In Huxley’s future vision, Brave New World, “soma” and the ‘’moksha medicine’’ in Island are psychedelic substances similar to LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin that facilitate insights that free us from the fear of death and enable us to live more fully.
Huxley’s second wife, Laura, relayed that he believed that ‘’the last rites should make one more conscious rather than less conscious, more human rather than less human.’’ Several hours before Huxley’s death in 1963 he asked Laura to give him 100 micrograms of LSD to facilitate his own dying, which she described in This Timeless Moment.
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. None of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.
—JOHN C. LILLY, M.D.
Programming the Human BioComputer
What John Lilly calls metaprogramming agents in his groundbreaking book, Programming and Metaprogramming in The Human Biocomputer—these electro-chemical imprints—can be re-programmed, or re-imprinted. Lilly described this ability to re-program our programs, meta-programs, then goes into considerable scientific and rigorous detail describing all the ways we can metaprogram our own brains, changing our programming as we see fit.
In the province of the mind, what the mind believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind there are no limits.
—JOHN C. LILLY. M.D.
The Scientist
Even though in the mind there are no limits, the body on the planet-side trip has definite limits locked in by biology. So as long as we return to and operate within it, we are subject to its limits. However each day we are becoming more aware of how these genetic limits work, and soon will figure out how to overcome those limits, first with genetic engineering, then nanoengineering.
Ketamine
Carefully designed for experimental out-of-body experiences. John Lilly wrote extensively about his experiences with small dosages of anesthetics such as Ketamine. It is possible that the out-of-body subjective effects of such substances are interpretations of proprioceptive disruption.
Ketamine hydrochloride is a fast-acting, hallucinogenic, “dissociative” general anesthetic used in surgical procedures on both animals and humans. Ketamine is a powerful entheogen with the capacity to generate inner experiences of God, gods, and divinity. Many people consider ketamine, or K, to a shamanic experience hat gives deeper understanding of our role in the universe.
The ketamine experience is often death-like with an external sensory shutdown and a move toward an inner universe to reach a transcendental experience of “oneness”. Many using K say that during their experience they felt that they understood the Christian notion of the separation of the soul and the body and that they came to believe some part of them will continue to exist after death. Many reported direct contact with God in the form of an ocean of brilliant white light filled with love, bliss and energy.
K tends to stimulate near-death experiences with a feeling of leaving the body to have a sense of timelessness and feeling of calm and peace.
Ketamine is a deceptively dangerous drug because of the high probability of addiction and has been called the “Frankenstein molecule.” K addicts have been known to die during the experience. DM Turner, an experienced psychonaut who claimed to have had more than 100 K trips, is believed to have drowned in a bath tub while using ketamine on New Year’s Eve.
Laughing Gas or nitrous oxide (N20) is a similar analgesic used in dentistry for pain control that yields similar perceptual experiences but for a much shorter time per does—generally 30 second or so. Thus, it is vastly less dangerous so long as the tripper has sufficient access to oxygen.
Sensory deprivation
Dr. John Lilly’s research showed that metaprogramming of our beliefs and programs can be accomplished in a state of sensory isolation. Lilly created an “isolation tank,” which is a lightless, soundproof tank in which a person floats in salty water at skin temperature.
To study your mind, it must be isolated from sensory stimulation and from of reaction in the here-and-now external reality. To achieve this Lilly devised the “void method” using the sensory isolation tank in which he studied the workings of his mind. Lilly showed that an isolated mind can study its own processes, free of feedback with the external world.
Relaxation
Physical restoration can be accelerated through the use of flotations therapy. When floating the body reaches states of total relaxation where tension is released and the energy is allowed to flow into the needed areas. When the burden of processing is reduced, the body has access to immense resources to heal itself. This healing energy is intelligent, needs no direction, and prioritizes according to ones personal needs.
Lilly discovered that when he cut off sensory input he become aware that his Self was programmed by program systems he had not been aware of in daily external reality. He said, “I discovered that I am something and someone far greater than my simulation of my Self.”
Your Metabelief Operator is clearest in a void or isolation environment.
—JOHN C. LILLY, M.D.
The Quiet Center
A phenomenon called deautomatization occurs while floating. The body is automated, which enables us to accomplish tasks without consciously processing each action every time. Automatization can produce unwanted effects, which include habits, compulsion, and tension. These habit patterns can lead to medical problems such as digestive ailments and cancer.
When floating, the mind/body system realizes that the normal stimulus has decreased dramatically, which causes the system to turn up the “volume” for the sensing of available stimulus. In the sensory deprivation environment the mind/body system proceeds to reset its muscle memory, which is one of the reasons that people emerge from the flotations tanks totally relaxed and experience more vivid colors, more flavor, and a general state of heightened awareness.
If you are around in 2010 you will have an excellent chance to live to the year 2030. If you are around in 2030—regardless of your age—you will be able to live indefinitely into the future.
—FM-2030
Are You a Transhuman?
If the human race took death seriously, there would be no more of it.
—CELIA GREEN
