Et tu, Brute?

GUYS this shi WORKS. I tried for the first time this morning (USING THE FREQUENCY I PUT DOWN AT THE PAGE, not to mean I tried sleep para for the first time lol) around 7 am and had a hella vivid, a logical dream where it had no ridiculous dream element at all. It was SO vivid. Then i woke up, it all took like 15 minutes, it was a sleep paralysis. HOWEVER, now i know it happens like this and this is frustrating, but ive serious anxiety & panick attack issues, i think thats why i get overly panicked when my mind is in altered states but i couldve turned it into void state/ or shift thru it so easily!! i want to be fulllyyyy honest and transparent with yall, when sharing my experiences i dont add unreal stuff to the story or lie to you so, yeah, even someone like me (i mean, ive been practicing lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis since I was a little kid and ive a huge habit of meditating &yoga) CAN have hard times with these.

if yall be ever frustrated, dont dwell on it. your feelings are so valid and you of course can feel like youve ''failed'', or lost hope, but dont. even if you dont believe in spiritualism, shifting, law of assumption, you CAN still practice them cause they dont require belief.

It worked in my first try? I was kinda surprised cause my skeptical mind normally never lets me! and i dont gain much from staying up all nigth but i was exhausted. I tried it again after like 10 minutes, y'know I woke up after the sleep paralysis, and once more, I had a long and vivid, LOGICAL dream of my desired reality! It felt so damn real and not like a dream at all. im glad cause i dont often dream about my DR. it was not a fully shift but still im grateful and willing to try again.

i HIGHHHLYYY reccomend this video.

Thank you so much the creator of this video you've done a masterpiece

⠀a lengthy shifting guide

why is it so hard to shift from your cr to your dr but not so much vice versa? you’ve spent the first large chunk of your life believing this reality to be the full extent and foundation of existence. even if you now logically understand this not to be the case, the years spent curating and deepening a mental, emotional, and physical anchor to this reality has warped your perception of reality and instilled in to you the subconscious idea that your cr is the default. and in treating it as the default, the end all be all, and in compromising with it, you reinforce the idea that you are attached or stuck here—that it is even a place to get stuck in in the first place. not only do you trap yourself in this reality and grant it power over you that it does not actually have, you start viewing your cr as the “starting point” too, and shifting as some form of transportation from point A to point B. accompanying this belief is an imagined distance created between your current reality and desired reality. you might’ve already recognised this in yourself; the feeling that your dr is somehow faraway, a place that needs to be travelled to.

it’s important to make and internalise the distinction between a shift in realities as an act of metaphysical travel, and a shift in realities as a shift in focus. imo the former is a much better descriptor for what shifting actually is in essence. i will go into more depth later, but a byproduct of being raised the way you were, growing up knowing nothing but your cr and rooting & centring yourself wholly (confined) within it, is the over identification you end up developing with your cr self. you are not living reality, you are watching it. but after years of the constant unbroken immersion, the two become almost impossible to distinguish. you define yourself by and take on as if they were your own the thoughts and identity and feelings of the “vessel” you are observing, and let them dictate how you experience reality. the lines begin to blur between you; your cr self, and you; your awareness/the observer.

feel your hand. don’t touch it, but notice it’s weight and temperature, or the air around it. now feel the feeler. can you feel yourself? or your body, maybe? now go a step further and feel the one feeling. you probably aren’t fully able to, but this is the observer. “the observer”, or the state of being after breaking the immersion, is you in your natural or purest state. it has also been described as pure awareness, the void state, ego death, sakshi, the self, anatta, and interpreted in different ways across a multitude of different religions and branches of spirituality & philosophy, all used as a means to an end for different things. fyi—i’m not saying you have to completely forsake your cr identity or start ignoring/dismissing your senses or thoughts to shift, just understand that those things don’t define you or your reality. the means to the end here is just getting a point across and hopefully helping improve with the approach you take to shifting. all of this to say, you’re not travelling from point A to point B. point A and B are not places you can (technically) even travel to or exist in, because you’re just watching/observing/being aware of. shifting is not the transportation of a self from one location to another. shifting is simply changing what is focused on/experienced; from one stream of experience to another. a shift in focus.

to summarise, you as in your ego, the you in this cr as you know it, your body, your brain, your thoughts, your identity, don’t actually go or shift anywhere. you, your awareness, in favour of perceiving you, your cr self, the one sat at your computer or phone or whatever reading this right now, starts perceiving a different you/ego/self—one that could have the exact same personality, memories, and thoughts, just in another realty, or one that is a different person entirely. there is only a change or “shift” for the observer, not the cr self or ego. so stop trying to feel your dr with your cr senses. you’re not going to. you’re so immersed in your cr and cr self that you automatically rely on this reality’s bodies’ senses to gauge your success when you try to shift, waiting for your cr self to get a cue that it’s never going to get. the surroundings your cr self feels aren’t going to go anywhere. nor are your senses going to shut off. your cr body will continue to receive sensory information, because that’s what bodies do. so don’t lie there expecting your bedsheets to disappear or magically warp into your dr surroundings or something and feel like you’ve failed when they don’t. shifting is not about somehow willing your surroundings to change or lying in your room forcefully convincing yourself that your senses are feeling something else, it’s about acknowledging what’s beyond those senses. feeling and connecting to what your dr self feels.

if you can still feel your cr, it’s not you feeling it, it’s your cr self. and you are not your cr self.

I was just mindlessly scrolling and stumbled upon a post. In the comments, @throwawayyyyyyyyyyy111111 has pasted a link to a 230+ pages Google doc which they had created and pilled in majority of @hrrtshape (deactivated) posts/asks. Personally, I don't know this blogger since i only joined tumblr in march this year but yeah I was curious, im always curious so i searched the link up immediately.

I read the first page AND I FEEL LIKE EVERY SHIFTER NEEDS TO READ THIS! I know the doc is very very long.. but I think it's quite worth it if you're doubting shifting or just unable to shift.

I will try to finish the whole doc today yippieee. Also big thank you to @throwawayyyyyyyyyyy111111 ❤️

𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝘆𝗲𝘀.🪷ᝰ.ᯓᡣ𐭩要有光

i am not a buddhist nor a Hindu myself. I am a practicing Orthodox Christian. But when it comes to searching for shifting /loa /manifesting /spiritualism? i'll take whatever i can find. Now look, these ancient teachings don't have a magic wand that says "lets just jump in there" ,but they do have a pretty powerful "shortcuts" that will instantly plunge the mind into that void. Specifically, Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, the esoteric branch of Hinduism, offers 112 different methods for instantly stopping the mind and pushing it into that void.

First of all, ''the space between two breathes'' (Kumbhaka) In buddhism and hinduism, the greatest secret is that microscopic moment when one breath ends but another doesn't begin. That moment is when you disconnect from this world. And yeah it has an easy way.. breathe in, breathe out. Stop at the exact second u exhale. Focus on the silence that occurs when your lungs are empty. That void is actually your shifting gateway. The longer you prolong those seconds, the more your physical body begins to fade away. And oh, also, be careful and start SLOW. Cause If u do it incorrectly or forcefully, you may experience dizziness, stress, or even fainting...

Second thing ive found is.. "Neither this nor that" (Advaita Vedanta) That is the fastest way to eliminate the mind (the logical left lobe of ur brain). In shifting, every time you say, "i am this, i am here," you are anchored to that reality. Lie down in bed and say to everything that crosses your mind that; Is your body tingling? "nope that's not me." or did you hear a sound? "that's not me." did a thought come to ur mind? "that's not me." Basically reject everything until nothing remains. That remaining pure "awareness" is the void itself... What remains? According to Vedanta, the unchanging, observing pure awareness. That is, the inner, "observing thing." They call it Atman, and surprisingly, it is said to be the same as Brahman. So, individual self = universal reality. Non duality? it's easy to understand, but quite difficult to live with. cause the mind is constantly addicted to labeling itself, saying "this is who i am, this is what i am." it's like stripping the mind bare, leaving it completely exposed. You shed layers upon layers. And the human ego doesn't exactly love that, mind you...

Now ''Dharana'', think of the discipline of The Hierophant card. Instead of dividin the mind into a thousand pieces, confining it to a single point allows reality to break...Close your eyes and focus only on that point between your eyebrows,aka the 3rd eye, or just a single white spot in your mind. Think of nothing else. After a while, the mind will give a "system error" and throw you back into that single point, into the void. Dharana, in yoga, means concentration. But not at the level of "alrigh i put my phone down and focused for 5 minutes." It means literally fixing your mind on a single object. Thr rule is lowkey simple.. If the mind wanders, u bring it back. If it wanders again, you bring it back again. ''Dharana'' focus, ''Dhyana'' uninterrupted flow, meditation; ''Samadhi'' complete union, dissolution of the sense of "self"....

The easiest way to do this is actually to "stop searching." Theres a saying in buddhism that "as long as you keep searching, you won't find, because the seeker is what she seeks." You think shifting is about going somewhere "out there," but these teachings say, "Youre already everywhere, you just choose to focus on this body." Stop "trying to go." Try relinquishing this reality as if you were already there. By releasing the energy of the 4 Pentacles aka the holding on energy, and 9 Wands, in your cards, and simply "being" like The Sun, that door will open by itself.

Heyyy this was super wanted, more void state techniques from ancient Buddhism/Hinduism. These teachings are super old, traditional and quite literally mystique. These teachings are SERIOUS business. Do not take them lightly. Approach with respect, caution, by that i mean, begin slowly and mindfully, these stuff might put you in a state that DEEPER than void. I recommend you do your own research, if you're interested. Now all these settled.. First let us start with Unmani Mudra, that's a practice in the yoga and tantra tradition that signifies a "state beyond the mind." The word "unmani," literally, means "suspension of the mind " or "absence of the mind / cessation of the mind." But this isn't about the brain shutting down, it's more about the calming of the flow of thoughts, the interruption of that constant inner monologue.

The practical part is as follows, that the eyes are generally half open, the gaze is directed slightly upwards or between the eyebrows (called ajna point). (Also related to Shambhavi Mudra), But you're not trying to focus, quite the opposite, it's like an "empty gaze." Breathing is calm, the body is relaxed. But the main thing is not the physical pose, but the mental state. The goal is to let thoughts fade away without fighting them. ALSOOOO, in practice, the goal isn't concentration. Most people fail here. They look at Ajna and think, "i'll focus, i'll hold it." Wrong. That's not dharana. Unmani is the dissolution of even focusing, close to Samadhi. So there's attention, but not "attention locked onto something." The mind normally operates through vritti (thought waves). In Unmani, these waves are not suppressed; they extinguish themselves. Therefore, it's again lowkey similar to Patanjali's "citta vritti nirodha," but the method is different, there is no forced stopping, only non intervention.

Second technique that might help getting in void state is, Ajapa Japa. That is a method of hypnotizing the mind with its own rhythm and then suddenly pulling that rhythm away. Ajapa japa literally means "non repetitive repetition." Yes, it sounds deliberately a bit confusing i know, Normal japa is consciously repeating the mantra. In ajapa, the repetition happens spontaneously. You don't force it it just happens. A classic example is, breath. Its said that the "so" sound is naturally produced when inhaling and the "ham" sound when exhaling. "So ham" is the mantra, meaning "i am that." You don't force urself to say it,you just become aware of it. After a while, the mantra begins to flow automatically with ur breath. At first, ure somewhat consciously aware of it. Then, at some point, the feeling of, "im repeating myself" subsides. The mantra is working in the background and ure just a witness. That's the stage called ajapa.

Ajapa is a more "gentle" method, u don't just jump straight into the void, you first get into a rhythm. That's why it's lowkey more sustainable for most people..i think? At some point, even the mantra gets ''unnecessary'', cause the mental place it takes u to is already beyond the mantra. There is no repetition there, no effort or whatsoever. Long stroy short, listen to the natural "So" sound as you inhale and the "Hammm" sound as you exhale (the hamsa mantra) in ur mind. Continue this for a while, completely capturing ur mind in this rhythm. At the moment ure completely immersed in the rhythm, hold your breath for a pretty short time and suddenly stop the mantra. Your mind will want to continue that rhythm, but cause to the pause, it will fall into a "void." That moment of falling is your gateway.

(Art made by the TikTok artist @echoplut)

No I'm not gonna tell y'all what is void and how it works and all, we all know it better than we know ourselves cause we've been wasting our time and energy on collecting every bits of information on void rather than actually going within yourself and finding what's best for you...

Anyways let's come to the method and it's GENUINELY nothing but just the basic spiritual law

"Whatever you persist in you'll see more of" OR "whatever you think dominantly is going to be reflected in the 3d"

First of all make the decision rn that you're someone who enters/wakes up in the void state easily and you never have to struggle for it it's just so easy and effortless for you, you can enter void on command ( however you wanna tell yourself )

Now choose any affirmation regarding void that you wanna use, most used ones are :-

1.) I can easily enter the void state

2.) I always wake up in the void

3.) it is so easy for me to enter the void

4.) I am void

And many more that you can use

Now I want you to pick ONE and just loop it, that's it, nothing more

Why loop it? Cause affirming is just thinking and you're thinking anyways and it's honestly better than wasting your time spiraling about how you can't enter the void

Now just affirm as much as you can, why? Cause that's the method!! Saturation ( repetition )

The more you'll affirm the easier it'll get and then you'll naturally reach a point where it's all so easy for you, you won't even care about void anymore cause you'll be in that steady state of someone who already woke up in the void and has it all ( it'll come with repetition so just keep affirming even if it feels forced or unnatural at first )

for night time :-

For night it's the most important time I ain't letting you sleep in that misery anymore

You're first going to set the intention to enter/wake up in the void

Secondly you're going to command you subconscious ( the way you do when you have to wake up early and you say it yourself 3-4 times and then sleep trusting your subconscious to do it for you ) to wake you up in the void ( how you wanna command it )

At last just affirm your selected affirmation from above until you fall asleep ( which is basically lullaby method/SATS )

And in the morning right after you wake up you're going to freaking saturate your mind with your affirmation!! You are not going to complain how you didn't enter it on first night or anything NO YOU'RE GOING TO AFFIRM ANYWAYS

And now I want you to stay consistent with this everyday every night and then come back with your success stories!!

( yep you can listen to your recorded affirmations, you can listen to your subliminal playlists do whatever you want the point is SATURATION and not thinking against it )

For those who spiral and stress out a lot? Instead of flipping it or dwelling on it just start affirming to feel grounded and to get you out of that dwelling

firstly, i’d like to thank everyone for the great feedback i received on the my last post i made about how to use "actually use" awake methods, based on research i came across while learning about deep meditation and altered states of consciousness. and like i mentioned in my last post, i’m doing a follow-up to explain the full diagram and how you can use it to be more effective when practicing awake methods.

disclaimer(s): before i do a deep dive into how to “actually use” awake methods, backed by a spiritual interpretation from rudolf steiner’s esoteric teachings, i want to clarify that i’m putting “actually use” in quotes for a reason because there isn’t a black-and-white way to approach shifting. shifting is deeply personal and spiritual (imo). everything i’m sharing here is simply what i’ve found through my own research, shadow work, and inner reflection, including tarot, which resonated strongly with me and helped me feel confident enough to share this. my hope is that it supports others in their own shifting journey. i also want to make it clear that my approach to shifting is completely spiritual. i don’t really see it as something scientific, i experience it more as a spiritual practice. so everything i share here is coming from that spiritual perspective, not from the science side of shifting.

this is going to be a lengthy post!