Surreal Experiments

Pillar 12

Expand Your Consciousness

There is a layer of human experience that psychology can describe but not fully explain. Mystics across every tradition have spent millennia trying to name it. Depth psychology brushed against it. Modern research on altered states is starting to map it again.

This pillar is about that territory — without the wellness-industrial gloss, and without the credulous opposite. We take consciousness, contemplative practice, ego dissolution, and the perennial questions seriously. We don't take their packaging seriously.

It's for people who've outgrown the bookstore version of spirituality and started asking older questions. What is consciousness? What does it actually mean to expand it? What do meditation, mystical experience, and shadow work share that more surface-level tools don't reach?

The aim isn't to convert you to a path. It's to give you better instruments for territory that, sooner or later, most thoughtful adults find themselves in.

1 article in this pillar

Kundalini Awakening

The serpent energy at the base of the spine — what it is, how it activates, and what to do when it does.

Kundalini Awakening: What I Learned When the Serpent Found Me

Snakes have terrible PR. A first-person account of kundalini awakening, ayahuasca, and what the serpent actually represents in the wisdom traditions.

5 May 202613 min read

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