Consciousness Tools

I’m working with many consciousness tools, some that I have spent a long time studying, others that I did not connect with much and others are on my mind to study one day.

Here are some of the tools I tried, made part of my life or plan on trying.

The fact that I experimented or learned the tools below does not mean I recommend them to anyone, I am just sharing some of my past experience here.

“There is no effort wasted on this path” (working on yourself) - Greg

Journaling

As I wrote on my post on morning pages I see journaling as a powerful knowledge tool about myself self therapy. Writing whatever comes to mind first thing in the morning is a view into your subconscious and a precious memory of how you felt in the past. It always gave me great learnings about myself.

Meditation

• daily practice in our discord community

• meditation after 3 months in the Amazon forest

• vipassana 10 day silent retreat in 2010

• 8 days in silence over XMas and NYE in 2021 at Pachamama in Costa Rica

The “Red Road” of the Lakotas and Mayas (what is it?)

• Learned to enjoy the Inipi or Temezcal (Mexican name) sweat lodge

• Two vision quests in South Dakota at Bear Butte with Lakotas

• One 4 day no food no water (dry fast) vision quest in Maya jungle near Bacalar, Mexico with Miguel

• Two (dry fast, 4 days) Sundances in Bacalar, Mexico with Miguel

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Therapy

Years of work on myself with two therapists in the bay area after my divorce.

Hoffman institute

• group therapy work

• worked for the first time by myself on my “shadows”

• disliked it but I reckon it was useful in some ways

• some aspects of it really bothered me (a bit cultish) this is why I generally do not recommend it spontaneously but never tell people who decided to do it not to.

Yoga

• Tried many times to like it and “stick to it” but always gave up after a while, it did not “stick”

• I have on my mind to resume one day…

Kundalini Yoga

• It doesn’t have much to do with the Yoga as we understand it in the modern world, it feels much more mystical to me and makes me very curious

• Did about a year every week at the Kundalini Yoga Center of San Francisco which is apparently now closed (seems to be online only) as I write this, I loved it and it helped me through tough times even though the teachers all white attire triggered me at the time… it would not today.

• The community suffered immensely when their leader who took first to the west the “secret teachings”, Yogi Bhajan, was found leaving generations of followers sexually, emotionally and physically abused.

• I have never participated in any “cultish events” there, only did the practice and I liked it, I often do some kundalini poses still, mostly Sat Kriya

• I did almost daily Sat Kriya when I started the one year absolutely no sex dieta in the jungle and it helped me a lot

Eckhart Tolle

• Read a few times his great book “The power of now”

• Followed a course with him live online on “Manifestation” during COVID at SoundsTrue it was great