I often speak of mind evolution and expanding one’s consciousness — both of which are of paramount importance in my life and perhaps in yours. However, I’d like to note that one needn’t bombard their mind, or overwhelm it, with any particular tool or method for such an expansion or evolution to manifest. It’s often very easy to fall into a state of mental bombardment when one adheres to the philosophy of “more is better.”

Tools such as meditation, the use of psychedelic plants, yoga, mantras, dancing, tantra, singing, et al. are all fine lubricants that will aid you on your journey, no doubt. For thousands of years such practices have been used to extricate the mind from itself and, more contemporary, checkout from the suffocating societal imperatives that are so aggressively forced down our throats.

But don’t be too quick to pack your bag with all of these tools at once. Surely, these tools will help, but if your bag is too heavy you won’t be going anywhere. Think of it like this: in a factory where shoes are being made there may be an infinite amount of tools, methods, tweaks, and adjustments that can be implemented to increase the efficiency and output of the shoes being produced; however, if the factory was to experiment with ALL of these ideas simultaneously, it would lead not only to a decrease in output, but to its utter demise.

And in the same way, don’t shoot for a quantum leap of the mind, but, instead, for cosmic steps toward the dissolution between YOU and everything else. Travel light and take only what you need at the particular moment in time.

[image credit: Lemanz R]