Traveling Upstream

Some people use meditation to reach higher levels of consciousness. Does it work? Yes it does work. Achieving higher levels of consciousness is easy and I believe anyone can do it. Here is the method that has worked for me, it stems from a simple model of consciousness.



Every thought you have spawns another thought and another thought and yet another thought in a continuous stream. Think of each thought as a point on a spiral moving outward at incredible speed from the center. New thoughts are created at the center of the spiral and follow the path of the spiral around and outward over time.

The trick here is to take a hard look at the thoughts coming out of the center. The goal is to analyze the root cause of your thoughts. Ask yourself where are these thoughts coming from and focus your analysis on this. What you need to do is step back and allow your thoughts to encompass the framework that's generating them.



To do this you must look at each thought you have and analyze it to find the previous thought that spwaned it. As you analyze each thought as it moves away from the center of the spiral, you are of course creating new thoughts. These new thoughts are actually the ones doing the analysis. As you become aware of these new thoughts being created, you must jump from analyzing whatever thought you were analyzing to analyzing the new thought.

Eventually your current thought will be the same as your next thought and you will no longer be looking at your last thought, but your current one. When this occurs, your thoughts will be exposed and your consciousness will be briefly elevated. You will have a thought that recursively references itself.

Another visualization of what's happening here is a snake eating it's own tail. The object here is to think a thought that encompasses itself.