(This is copy & pasted from Reddit. I read this whole post and found it to be very informative and useful! Link to original post is at the bottom.)

“

I need to share this with you because I know there are many people here going through exactly what I went through, and I want this account to serve as proof that it's real, that it works, and especially that the problem was never the technique, it was the state. I’ve been in the shifting community for many years about six or seven and for most of that time, I’ve never managed to shift, not even once: no mini-shift, absolutely nothing.

I’ve done everything, literally everything you can imagine: the Raven method, Alice in Wonderland, Sunni, Julia, intention-setting, the pillow method. I’ve meditated for hours before bed, listened to subliminals all night long, written 30-page scripts detailing every corner of my DR, and tried using binaural beats, frequencies, guided sessions, and no guidance with music and in silence, sleeping on my back, on my side, or sitting up, at night, in the afternoon, and during short naps. I’ve tried with methods and without any method at all. And every morning it was the same thing: I’d open my eyes and there I was same room, same ceiling, same CR. And every time it happened, the frustration grew, because it wasn’t just "I didn't manage it today"; it was "another day proving I can't do it, that this doesn't work for me, that maybe I'm the only exception, or maybe everyone who’s shifted is lying." I would fall into that destructive cycle I know many of you are familiar with I’d try hopefully, fail, get frustrated; the frustration reinforced the belief that it was hard, and that belief made it even harder; I’d try again with more desperation, fail again, and repeat this for weeks, months, and yearsuntil at some point I gave up completely: I left all the groups, deleted my scripts, stopped consuming any content about shifting, and told myself it was all nonsense, that none of it was real, and that I’d been a fool for believing in it.

Then, after some time, the urge would return; I’d go back to the groups, read someone’s success story, hope would reignite, and the cycle would start all over again, exactly the same: the same desperate attempt, the same frustration, the same hollow result. And, amidst all this frustration, I ended up developing a "method" which, deep down, was nothing more than self-destruction disguised as a technique called "Ren's Reboot." It works like this: you pull an all-nighter, staying awake until you are completely exhausted; when your body reaches its limit and is utterly drained, you lie down and try to shift out of that state of extreme fatigue. The idea is for the brain to be so exhausted that the conscious mind cannot put up any resistance, thereby facilitating the transition of consciousness.And look, I’ll be honest with you: I don’t recommend this at all. It’s a method that works by depriving your body of sleep and forcing an altered state through physical exhaustion; this is harmful to your health and affects your immunity, mood, cognitive abilities, and your entire life in your current reality (CR). Furthermore, it creates an unhealthy relationship with \*shifting\*, making you feel like you need to destroy yourself physically to achieve something that should be natural. I tried this several times and had unstable, fragmented experiences that left me even more frustrated upon returning; so, please, don’t go down that path.

What really changed everything for me wasn't a new method, a secret technique, a more powerful subliminal audio, or pushing my body to exhaustion; what changed was that I finally understood what I was doing wrong.

I was trying to shift from the mindset of someone who can't shift.

It sounds obvious when put that way, but in practice, it’s the most subtle trap there isbecause every time I lay down to "try," my internal state was one of need, of lack, of "please let it work this time," and that state is exactly the state of someone who isn't in their DR; I was inhabiting the mindset of "I want to go but I can't," and wondering why I wasn't going. I began studying Neville Goddard in depth not directly because of "shifting," but because I sought to understand how reality works at a deeper level. That was when everything started to make sense: I discovered the Law of Assumption. It is completely different from that superficial Law of Attraction the "think positive and the universe delivers" kind of thing. The Law of Assumption states that you are the creative consciousness and that reality is a direct reflection of the states you assume to be true not your desires, nor your requests or attempts, but rather what you accept as truth at the deepest level.

Neville taught something simple: assume the state of the wish fulfilled—do not desire, do not ask, do not try; simply assume it is already real and live internally from that place. Fall asleep in the feeling of someone who is already there, not in the feeling of someone desperate to get there. And that’s what I did.not overnight, because it was a process, but I did it. First, I stopped "trying" to shift completely. I stopped lying down with the intention that "tonight’s the night," stopped repeating affirmations, stopped monitoring symptoms, and stopped asking my body if I was feeling tingling or if it was a sign of something... I stopped all of that. Instead, I started working on my state of mind during the day; at random moments, I would simply put myself in the feeling of having already shifted. I didn't visualize elaborate scenes I just felt it. I felt the natural ease of someone who has already been there and can return whenever they want; I felt that the DR was just as real and accessible as the room next door. It wasn't an effort or a meditation session; it was just a matter of shifting my internal state for a few seconds and then going about my day as usual.

At night, before bed, I stopped "doing a method" and would simply lie there thinking about my DR like thinking about a friend's house without any pressure. Sometimes I’d imagine a scene there, feel it as real, and let sleep come naturally without forcing anything, monitoring anything, or staying awake trying to hold onto consciousness at all costs; if I fell asleep, I fell asleep no guilt. And the first time I actually shifted, I didn't use any method no script, no subliminals, no affirmations, no named techniques, nothing, absolutely nothing. I simply lay down in the right state and fell asleep. It was the most natural thing that has ever happened to me; after years of forcing it with every possible technique, the shift happened when I stopped trying and simply accepted that it was already mine.

There was no sensation of falling, none of the classic "symptoms" I had spent years waiting for and using as a gauge; I simply fell asleep and woke up there. And when I say I woke up there, I mean it was exactly like waking up in my current reality the same solidity, the same stability, the same feeling that "this is real." I opened my eyes and the surroundings were different, the body was different, the air was different, and the first thing I felt wasn't euphoria; it was as if I already knew that place, as if I had come home after a long time away.

I won't go into every detail of what I experienced there, because this account is already huge and some things are too personal, but anyone who wants to know can DM me.

Here’s what I want you to take away from this: Stop trying seriously. If you’ve been trying for months or years without success, the problem isn’t the method; it’s your state of mind. You’re dwelling in the mindset of "I want to go but I can't" and wondering why you aren't getting there. Change your state. Stop treating shifting like some massive, impossible event that requires rituals and perfect conditions, and start treating it as something you simply do something natural and ordinary, just another part of life.

“

you cannot think your way into a shift.

all the theories, the information, the physics and the metaphysics and all—that’s so fun, yes, and so wonderful, but you can’t think your way into a shift.

there is nothing in the world that will teach you to shift. no amount of knowledge of physics, philosophy, or spirituality will teach you. it’s not in neville’s book, not in any religious book, not even in the shifting community itself.

there’s no step by step, full proof method. there’s nothing to learn from the outside.

so give up that search. accept it. accept that this is you. it’s always been about you and within you.

(tldr: As a manifestor, you shift to realities in which you have exactly what you want, basically reality shifting.)

I've seen this phrase be thrown around SO. MANY. FUCKING. TIMES. I'm not even gonna joke about it, it's ridiculous how many times I've seen people swear up, down, left, right, forward, backwards, diagonally AND across that shifting doesn't exist while they themselves believe in the law of assumption.

Now, not to put anyone down, but they're WROOOOOOOOONG...

Why do you think when people align with their new identity, they SHIFT into the person they identify as? Why do you think that when you SHIFT your mindset, you SHIFT the reality you find yourself in? It's all reality shifting!

Let me give an example I thought of before and told my bestie about.

A while ago, a month or so, I was contemplating the law of assumption. No, doubts don't hinder your manifestation process, that's a limiting belief. Cut that right out. I couldn't help but wonder "If people manifest things all the time, how come there are issues like violence? Natural disasters? Global warming? Assholes who like kids and still are able to get into presidency?". It made no sense. Then it hit me; They SHIFTED to a version of REALITY where their manifestation was already true!

Your friend who manifests things isn't doing it for giggles. A stranger who speaks of manifesting major changes in reality itself isn't just doing random wishful thinking. No, they SHIFTED into a world they wanted to be in already.

Allow me to stray off for a second; Shifting is SEAMLESS. By that I mean someone could shift into Hogwarts, and be gone for.. what, your reality equivalent of months, and you'd have NO IDEA. They don't know they shifted either. Their awareness did, and your awareness is not bound to the body. We know that.

It's the same thing with manifesting. You, as a manifestor, shift realities to enter a reality where you have all that you want. Your presence here is a matter of you shifting realities into the version of yourself you want to be. Two cheeks of the same ass, if I were to quote previously mentioned friend of mine (love you girlie 🫶).

this is like a brief part two to my affirm and persist post. maybe i'll make it pretty later but i wanted to put my thoughts down first

same with affirm and persist, when people see the term "just decide" they immediately clock out. its all "thats what ive been doing" or "people have hard circumstances we can't 'just decide'" "why isnt it here yet" etc etc

when we tell you to decide, we aren't saying point and blank just decide, and then do a billion methods and affirm 90k times and completely disregard your 3D or find some secret key that will "click" for you. this is not your fault, though, because all our lives we've been taught to do things with effort, and a lot of bloggers/coaches in the community do not elaborate past "just decide"

you decide the same way you decided you wanted to wear a red shirt instead of a black one. you stuck with that decision, therefore it is done. you don't look between both options and then start panicking over "but what if i don't have it" or "its not here" when it is right in front of you. you will always be stuck in the state of someone who is searching and not someone who has it if you continue to identify this way.

when you have your phone, you're in the state of someone that has a phone. it doesn't just magically disappear and leave the moment you don't have it or don't see it, because you automatically stick to the state of someone who just has a phone.

i want to add that the 3D is NOT your enemy either. i hate when people act like the 3D is out to get you and say there is a separation of the 3D/4D when its all the same. it all roots from imagination, and the 3D merely reflects that. same with theres a "death" with ego, that's not a real thing. the ego is not your enemy either, and the ego is never gone completely unless in a state of pure conciousness (like the void). i'll make a separate post about this at some point but i just wanted to put that out there.

⠀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 hate when someone lies about shifting and then jumps to the "everyone else is lying about shifting aswell" and its like.. SONion🧅🧅🧅

its so silly because why would you say that everyone else is faking their shifting storytimes just because u did??? its so odd honestly

i know this can be demotivating but you gotta realise there are always gonna be ppl in the shifting community that lie like that and allowing their lies to throw u off ur shifting journey is so pointless.

i honestly dont blame anyone for feeling demotivated because alot of us relyy on successful shifting storytimes as "proo" and we may feel doubtful about shifting until we have shifted ourselves.f

this is why i emphaise on making ur own proof when it comes to shifting because relying on other people's storytimes as a source of shifting proof instead of u actually trying to shift + experience it urself will just leave u disappointed if u find out one of ur favs r lying.

do you consider yourself open minded..?

MY EXPERIENCE WITH SCRIPTING (while in my DR's)

Beauty : I swear i spend more time scripting the type of beauty i have than anything else in my script. The first thing I immediately noticed is the STARES like they are so intense to the point that whenever I go out with people some of them have told me that it lowkey makes them uncomfortable. Which is something I never considered beforehand but I can understand their point of view, so just beware before scripting some wild shit 😭

Family : I always try to script things for family because in my cr, Im not close with my extended not even my cousins so its nice that in my dr's whenever I go to family events I can actually enjoy myself and its not awkward. My family in my bts dr is so open minded and loving that sometimes I be talking to my cr family and I mention something that might be lil woke for them.. I genuinely cannot fathom how someone can be so narrow minded like gang its not that serious 😕

Random stuff : I scripted my jokes are always funny now im the class comedian, I scripted my cooking is very much deliciouso all the sudden everyone want me to cook for them. I also scripted that school never drained me (mha dr) AN BOI that one is a must especially when you're dealing with mf's like monoma.

The consequences : now in all of my dr's i am basically the embodiment of a y/n why? because why shift to be poor and miserable. I do have main character syndrome, i am very well aware and I could care less. Now the bad thing about this is the hating ass hoe's, the ENVY goes crazy and its so noticeable too. Unless you script that everyone likes you, their will be people praying on your downfall. For me the way I handle this is usally telling myself "oh their just jealous" but thats just the ego talking but if im being honest it's does hurt when people that you have never even spoken to start saying mean and just simply disrespectful things about you.

Hello! I've been seeing a lot of disinformation lately, and I've noticed that some people might need help, so I wanted to chime in. I can shift whenever I want, and I see a LOT of limiting beliefs—but I understand because I was once on the other side.

Disclaimer: This is all based on my personal experience with how I became a master shifter.

You'll want to read everything—it's important.

(!!!!! This isn’t an original post of mine, I don’t remember where I found it but it’s from a deactivated acc and I don’t know if she/he’s in another acc on here!!!)

────୨ৎ────────୨ৎ────────୨ৎ──────Your soul found shifting over and over again, all you need to do now is believe♡ྀི ₊

────୨ৎ────────୨ৎ────────୨ৎ──────

for my shifters who are wanting out of here ASAP, i want you guys to focus your energy and attention on how relieving it’ll feel to be in your dr instead of focusing so heavily on wanting to escape.

it’s a slight difference but you may be surprised by the result.

shifting science/physics/roots/proof/everything you need to know a must read

hi i made this after researching for months it helped me alot and i really hope help those who are like me (autistic) who must have proof to believe something .this going to be alot so strap in.

also my english is not my first language i made sure to not make any mistake but if i did please point it out

If you spend any time in shifting communities online, you've heard it. The same accusation, over and over, from skeptics who have never tried, never meditated, never sat in silence long enough to feel their own body disappear

"The void state isn't real. Shifting is just lucid dreaming. Everyone who claims they've shifted is either lying or delusional." 

 It sounds confident. It soundes scientific .it sounds like the final word from someone who knows.

Except for one problem. 

The same "void state" that shifters describe today  pure awareness, no body, no thoughts, just consciousness floating in infinite stillness  has been documented, practiced, and perfected for over five thousand years. By monks who never used TikTok. By sages who never scrolled through Reddit. By mystics in India, China, Egypt, Tibet, and the Middle East who had no way to communicate with each other, and yet came to the exact same conclusion.

Either every single one of them was lying too... or the void state is one of the most real, most verified, most consistently reported phenomena in human history.

Part One: What Even Is the Void State??

Before we go back in time , let’s get clear on what we’re talking about today.

In modern shifting terminology, the void state is a deep meditative state where:

You remain fully conscious, but lose all awareness of your phisical body 

Your eyes are closed, relaxed, with no urge to open them

A floating sensation

Feeling of being pure consciousness without a form 

Visualization becomes effortless

When shifters reach the void state, they report being able to set intentions for their Desired Reality (DR) with incredible ease. Some shift directly from the void. Others use it to manifest specific changes in their Current Reality (CR).

The void state is not sleep. It's not a dream. It's not unconsciousness. It's what remains when everything else falls away ; when the body goes numb, the inner monologue goes silent, and all that's left is awareness itself.

Now. let me show you where else this exact state appears.

Part Two: The Upanishads ;The Original Void Shifters (800-200 BCE)

The Upanishads are ancient Indian philosophical texts. Written in Sanskrit roughly 2,500 years ago, they represent some of the oldest and deepest explorations of human consciousness ever recorded. 

There are about 108 Upanishads total, with 10-13 considered major. But their core message is simple enough to fit in one sentence, even if its implications take lifetimes to understand:

Your individual consciousness is not separate from universal consciousness .

The book's central question is deceptively simple , what is consciousness and what are its states? From this question it builds one of the most radical and precise maps of human awareness ever written.

It begins by identifying four states of consciousness that every human being moves through. The first is ordinary waking life the external world experienced through the five senses. In shifting language this is the CR, the current reality. The second is the dream state where consciousness turns inward and generates its own complete reality from within. This is where most shifting attempts begin, in that threshold between waking and sleep where the transition sensations arise. The third is deep dreamless sleep where all individual experience dissolves into formless rest.

The fourth state is where the Mandukya becomes extraordinary. Called Turiya, meaning simply the fourth, it is described as the background awareness that underlies and contains all three other states. It has no inside or outside. No boundary between self and everything else. It cannot be described in words because language itself belongs to the other three states.

What makes this directly relevant to shifting is what the Mandukya says about the relationship between waking and dreaming reality. It argues that the CR and the DR are fundamentally equal in nature. Both are experiences arising within the same consciousness. Neither is more ultimately real than the other. The world you experience as solid and external is at its deepest level as constructed by consciousness as any dream. This is not a metaphor or a comfort it is the central philosophical argument of the entire text.

The book also maps the four states onto the sacred sound AUM. The A corresponds to waking, the U to dreaming, the M to deep sleep, and the silence after the sound to Turiya. By following AUM inward through its three phases and resting in the silence that remains, the practitioner moves through the states of consciousness deliberately from CR awareness through the dream threshold and into something deeper. Shifters who use AUM as part of their practice before scripting and visualization are doing something the Mandukya described thousands of years ago.

The A sound anchors you in waking awareness ; where you are right now

The U sound carries you into the dream state ; the internal world of sleep

The M sound dissolves into deep formlessness ; dreamless , unconscious rest

Then you rest in the silence after  that silence is Turiya ; the beyond waking, beyond dreaming, beyond deep sleep 

Sounds familiar ??

And the most famous line from the Upanishads? Tat tvam asi. "You are that." Your consciousness an universal consciousness are the same thing. Which means every reality you could ever want to shift to? Already within you. Always has been.

 Perhaps the most important insight for anyone who shifts is the Mandukya's insistence that Turiya is not somewhere you travel to. It is the background awareness already present beneath every experience. The CR and the DR both arise within it. This means the access point between realities is not far away or difficult to reach  it is the ground of awareness itself, always already available, requiring not effort but recognition.

Part Three: The Yoga Vasishtha — Parallel Realities, Confirmed (750 BCE approx.)

If the Upanishads describe the state, the Yoga Vasishtha describes the cosmology that makes shifting possible.

One passage from this ancient text has stuck with me since I first read it. I'm going to quote it at length, because it deserves to be seen in full:

"O Rama, in the past there have been millions of Brahmas, Sivas, Indras, and Narayanas. However, even the creations of these gods were but the jugglery of Maya... In some universes Brahma is the supreme deity, in others it is the Sun, Indra, Narayana, or Shiva. In some universes the earth is filled with trees, in others with people or with mountains. Somewhere the earth is of mud or clay, elsewhere it is rocky or golden or coppery. One may count the rays of the sun; but it is impossible to count the number of universes that exist."

Let me translate that into shifting terminology.

Universes with different supreme deities : realities with diffrent fundamental rules

Earth made of gold or copper : level 4 universes (diffrent physics, different materials , different laws)

Impossible to count the number of universes : infinite drs .every possible reality exists.

The text goes even further, describing what sounds exactly like a shifting experience :

   "I decided to enter into samadhi again. I silenced the mind and the senses. I merged in the infinite consciousness. I saw reflected in that consciousness the image of countless universes. I was able to go anywhere and to see everything... Some were coming into being, others were perishing... There were different elements in each; they were inhabited by different types of beings... some had other universes within them; in some there were creatures you would not believe possible to exist."

 Samadhi is the practice of merging with consciousness itself — the void state. And from that state, the observer witnesses infinite realities. Sound like shifting? That's because it is shifting. Just with ancient Sanskrit vocabulary. 

Part Four: The Bhagavad Gita — Detach From the Ego

The Bhagavad Gita (part of the larger Mahabharata epic, dated around 500-200 BCE) is often read as a spiritual conversation between Prince Arjuna and the god Krishna. But underneath the divine dialogue is a practical manual for consciousness shifting. 

The Gita teaches : 

Detachment from identity : you are not the “self” you think you are .

Detachment from outcomes : act without clinging to results .

The ego is not real : what you call “I” is temporary and constructed .

Why is this relevant to shifting? Because shifting requires letting go of your CR identity. If you believe you are only your CR self  your body, your history, your problems then leaving that reality feels impossible. But when you understand, as the Gita teaches, that your ego is just a temporary costume, suddenly moving to a DR becomes not only possible but natural.

Part Five: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — When the Mind Stops

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (compiled around 400 CE) is a collection of 196 aphorisms that systematically map the terrain of human consciousness.

The most famous line is the second sutra:

   Yoga chitta vritti nirodha : "Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind."

When the fluctuations stop, when the endless chattering inner monologue finally quiets down, what remains? According to Patanjali: pure awareness without disturbance.

Thats it thats the void state.described in two thousand year old sanskrit in four words.

The Yoga Sutras go on to describe the stages of meditative absorption (samadhi), where the meditator loses awareness of their body, then loses awareness of their thoughts, then loses awareness of the distinction between "self" and "object of meditation," until only pure consciousness remains.

Every shifting method that involves meditation? Every guided void state track on YouTube? Every technique that tells you to "let go of your body and focus only on your intention"? You can trace its lineage directly back to texts like the Yoga Sutras.

Part Six: Tibetan Buddhism  The Clear Light and the Book of the Dead

Tibetan Buddhism offers perhaps the most detailed map of the void state, particularly in the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol).

According to this text, immediately after death, every being enters a state called the Clear Light (Ösel). In this state:

There is no body 

No thoughts

No physical world,infinite

Just awareness ,empty, yet aware

Sounds familiar ?

The Tibetan Book of the Dead explains that if you recognize this state, stay calm, and do not react with fear, you achieve liberation. You see reality as it truly is. But if you panic which most people do, because ego dissolution is terrifying when you're not prepared you fall back into form, identity, and illusion. Back into the physical world. 

Shifters describe this exact dynamic. How many times have you read: "I felt myself detaching from my body, my thoughts went silent, the world dissolved, and then I got scared and snapped back"? That's the Tibetan Clear Light meeting an unprepared consciousness.

The Tibetan tradition doesn't just describe the state — it teaches how to enter it consciously, through advanced meditation practices. And the instruction that appears again and again is this: Do not fear it. Do not react. The moment you do, you lose it.

Part seven : The CIA Gateway Report ; Consciousness as Hologram

Now we jump forward to 1983. A United States Army Lieutenant Colonel named Wayne M. McDonnell submits a classified report to his commanders at Fort Meade. His task: analyze the "Gateway Experience"  a training program developed by the Monroe Institute designed to induce out-of-body states through brain hemisphere synchronization (Hemi-Sync).

McDonnell spent months researching quantum mechanics, biomedical engineering, and theoretical physics. His conclusion?

Human consciousness is not confined to the brain. It is a holographic field that can transcend time, space, and physical reality.

The report, declassified in 2003, describes:

The universe as an “ extraordinarily complex system of energy fields”

Matter as an illusion ; solid objects are actually oscillating energy grids 

Human consciousness as a function of energy interaction 

The brain as a hologram that attunes to the universal hologram of reality 

Out of body states as achievable through focused coherance of brainwave output 

One of the most striking sections describes what happens when the body enters profound relaxation: the heartbeat creates a standing resonance wave at approximately 7-7.5 cycles per second. This resonance propagates into the earth's ionospheric cavity, effectively turning the human body into a coherent oscillator vibrating in harmony with the planet's electromagnetic field.

In that state, the report says, "the seat of consciousness" can move outside the physical body. The boundaries between self and environment dissolve.

Thats the void state 

Part eight: The Holographic Universe — Pribram and Bohm

The Gateway report draws heavily on two scientists: Karl Pribram, a neuroscientist at Stanford University, and David Bohm, a physicist at the University of London.

Their theories, working together, form a complete model of how shifting could be scientifically possible.

Bohm's physics: The universe is not made of separate particles. It is a single, undivided whole  an "implicate order"  where everything is connected and everything contains everything else. What we see as separate objects (including separate realities) are just projections from this deeper, unified field.

Pribram's neuroscience: The brain does not store memories in specific locations. Instead, it processes information holographically  meaning every piece of memory is distributed across the whole brain. A small fragment of brain tissue contains the pattern of the whole memory, just like a small piece of holographic film contains the whole image.

Put together: The brain is a hologram. The universe is a hologram. And the two attune to each other through energy exchange. Consciousness is not produced by the brain the brain receives consciousness like a radio receives signals.

When shifters say "I'm not shifting my body, I'm shifting my awareness," they are describing Pribram and Bohm's model in colloquial language.

Part Thirteen: Neville Goddard ; Facts Overflow the World

In the mid-20th century, a mystic named Neville Goddard (1905-1972) taught a simple, radical idea: Imagination creates reality.

Not metaphorically .literally .

Neville taught that the world you experience is an outpicturing of your inner assumptions. Change your assumptions really change them, not just intellectually but at the level of felt sensation and your reality must change to match.

In one of his lectures, "Facts Overflow the World," Neville describes his own shifting experiences. He talks about being in a parallel world that felt as real and tangible as this one. He describes visiting a reality where he could meet people who were dead in his main reality. He even talks about a world where he could stop time.

These are not metaphors for Neville. These are direct reports of shifting.                                                           

Neville's method is almost identical to the void state: relax into a drowsy, meditative state (he called it "state akin to sleep" or SATS), lose awareness of your physical body, then visualize your desired scene with sensory vividness. Fall asleep in that feeling.

Every shifter today using SATS? You're practicing Neville's method. And Neville was drawing from the same ancient well as the Upanishads, Taoism, and Tibetan Buddhism.

Part Fourteen: The Scientific Evidence Is Catching Up

Now we have scientific papers on : 

The holographic principle ; the universe might be a two dimensional information structure projected as 3d reality .

Non local consciousness; studies on remote viewing, telepathy, and near-death experiences suggest awareness is not bound to the brain .

Meditation induced altered states; fMRI studies show experienced meditators can voluntarily shut down the default mode network (the brain's "self" center), producing ego dissolution and non-dual awareness.

That default mode network shutdown? That's the neurological correlate of the void state. When your brain stops generating the "me" narrative, what's left is pure awareness no body, no thoughts, no identity. Just consciousness.

The science is not there yet to fully explain shifting. But the direction of evidence is unmistakable: consciousness is not what we thought it was.

Part Fifteen: Skeptics Will Say...

I know what the skeptics are thinking. I used to think it too.

"It's just lucid dreaming." Then why are the physiological markers different? Lucid dreaming occurs during REM sleep. The void state occurs while the body is awake but deeply relaxed.

"It's just dissociation." Dissociation is a trauma response, often distressing. The void state is chosen, calm, and often blissful.

"There's no scientific evidence." There's no scientific disproof either. And the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially when thousands of years of documentation exist.

"It's mass delusion." Delusions don't replicate across 5,000 years, across 12 different cultures with no contact, across languages that never borrowed from each other.

The simplest explanation is also the most radical: the void state is real. Shifting is real. And every mystical tradition on Earth has been telling us this since before writing was invented.

Part Sixteen: Why This Matters for Your Shifting Practice

If you've read this far, you're not here for philosophy. You want to shift.

Here's what all this ancient and modern knowledge means for your actual practice:

1. The void state is not something you create. It's something you uncover. You don't build emptiness. You remove everything that's in the way — thoughts, tension, identity, effort. What's left is already there.

2. You don't need a "method." The Upanishads didn't have shifting methods. The Taoists didn't have guided meditations on YouTube. They had intention, relaxation, and letting go. That's still all you need.

3. Fear is the only real obstacle. The Tibetan Book of the Dead says it. The Gateway report implies it. The shifters confirm it. The moment you panic at the feeling of ego dissolution, you snap back. Learn to stay calm in the void. Trust the process.

4. Your DR is not "out there." The Yoga Vasishtha says all universes exist within consciousness. Neville says imagination creates reality. Bohm says the universe is an undivided whole. Your DR is not a separate place you have to travel to. It's a frequency you tune into.

Conclusion: The Oldest Truth in the World

Here's what I've learned from months of research, across ancient texts and modern documents, across quantum physics and CIA reports, across shifting communities and mystical traditions:

The void state is not new. Shifting is not new. The understanding that consciousness creates reality is not new.

What's new is the language. We say "CR" instead of "Maya." We say "DR" instead of "loka" or "realm." We say "void state" instead of "Turiya" or "Clear Light" or "Fana" or "Nun" or "the Cloud of Unknowing."

But the experience is identical. And it has been reported, practiced, and perfected by human beings for over five thousand years.

So when a skeptic tells you shifting isn't real, you can smile and thank them for their concern. And then you can get back to practice  because you know something they don't.

Not because you're special. Not because you're delusional. But because you've done the research. You've read the texts. You've sat in the silence.

And you know, in the same way the Upanishadic sages knew, the same way the Taoist masters knew, the same way the Tibetan Buddhists knew, the same way Neville Goddard knew, the same way the CIA analysts concluded:

You are not your body. You are not your thoughts. You are not your CR identity. You are pure awareness, infinite and formless, capable of experiencing any reality you can imagine.

The void has always been there. It will always be there. It is your natural state. Your original face before you were born. The kingdom of God within you.

All you have to do is stop. Breathe. Let go.

And remember.

Tat tvam asi.

You are that.

Credits

Primary research sources 

Ancient hindu Texts :

The Upanishads (circa 800-200 BCE) – specifically the Mandukya Upanishad, Chandogya Upanishad, and Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

The Yoga Vasishtha (circa 750 BCE - 500 CE) – Sthiti Prakaranam (Section 4), Utpatti Prakaranam (Section 3), Nirvana Prakaranam (Section 6)

The Bhagavad Gita (circa 500-200 BCE) – part of the Mahabharata

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (circa 400 CE)

The Bhagavata Purana (circa 800-1000 CE) – specifically verses 10.87.41 and 6.16.37

Taoist Texts : 

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (circa 4th century BCE)

Zhuangzi by Zhuang Zhou (circa 4th-3rd century BCE)

Buddhist Texts : 

The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) – traditionally attributed to Padmasambhava (circa 8th century CE)

The Heart Sutra (Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya)

The Diamond Sutra (Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra)

The Lankavatara Sutra

The Platform Sutra by Huineng (8th century CE)

The Gateless Gate (Wumenguan) by Wumen Huikai (1228 CE)

Modern sources  : 

Neville Goddard (1905-1972) : 

Lecture: "Facts Overflow the World"

The State Akin to Sleep (SATS) technique

Various lectures on imagination and consciousness

The CIA Gateway Report (1983):

Title: "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process"

Author: Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell

Declassified: 2003

Document Number: CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5

Shifting community sources : 

Terminology and Frameworks : 

Amino (shifting communities)

TikTok (shifting content creators)

Tumblr (shifting blogs)

you can shift wherever you want. all universes are real and exist, whether you shift there or not, they are still there. shifting your consciousness somewhere reflects nothing toward your character, because you don't have one single character.

adding on with specifics: shifting to a reality that has you with a different race isn't bad. it already exists and is true, you are not "creating" anything. you are not swapping your race, because you do not have a fixed race. you are ALL realities. you are everything, all at once.