Techniques for direct access to your own subconscious?

[Clear]

What methods and techniques do you use or recommend for direct access to your own subconscious?

 

[HellenaHex]

Meditation, hypnosis, hypnagogia, trance work, dream work, lucid dreaming, and certain beats or sounds such as alpha wave music, nature sounds, and binaural beats can. various hallucinogens if used responsibly. Hot tea or hot bathes. For some heat can cause them to go into an almost high or hypnagogic state. Free writing or art can. You just can’t put a lot of conscious thought into and need to just let flow.

 

[Clear]

Thanks but I'm looking for something specific and directed that goes beyond the retinue outlined. Usually that level of trancework is a two person thing as you need an operator to aim the subjects awareness but I'm wondering if any of the adepts here have found ways of generating this state, solo?

 

[AlfrunGrima]

Thanks but I'm looking for something specific and directed that goes beyond the retinue outlined. Usually that level of trancework is a two person thing as you need an operator to aim the subjects awareness but I'm wondering if any of the adepts here have found ways of generating this state, solo?

I almost never did trancework with another person and typically reach trance as a result of autogenic training. You can learn it yourself with the Silva method. Look on YouTube on Silva meditation from Mindvalley. (there are other/ older videos with the same meditation) After doing the process more often with the video you should be able to doing it yourself without video. It is a learning process and you have to do it often. I worked through that process 6 days a week for a period of 9 weeks. From there I tweaked the process and I am able to go in trance within a few minutes. ( I am a firm believer of longer periods with daily training)

 

[Ziran]

What methods and techniques do you use or recommend for direct access to your own subconscious?

2 techniques: one is individual, the other is with a partner.

Individually, for direct access to the subconscious during a waking state, train the mind to view its surroundings using the entirety of the field of vision. In other words, it's watching the world thru a wide lens including the peripheral vision.

I've been doing this for 25+ years. It's a really good technique. The subconscious is far more observant, particularly in the peripheral, than most appreciate. Intentionally including the peripheral view while walking around doing mundane activities, in turn, naturally, includes the subconscious ( to a degree ) within the conscious mind.

As a pair, beleive it or not, access to the subconscious is cultivated thru Torah study. But it doesn't need to be Torah. The Torah provokes the subconcsious mind with many unanswered questions. Any mysterious text with unanswered questions works as well.

When learing as a pair, I instruct my study partner ( my student ) to interrupt me with any questions or comments regardless of what they are. These interruptions, I tell them, are very important, particularly the small and the silly ones. I tell them, "it will feel like a little tap-tap at the shoulder or the heart will skip-a-beat, or maybe something else. Whatever it is, I want you to interrupt me." Then we learn. At first the student is shy, but I'm watching their gestures very carefully. Any tiny little thing, produces a pause in the learning and we talk about it. These interruptions are training the indiviudal to develop sensitivity to their higher self. I want my students to be on-the-ready, listening for when their subconsious notices something important.

The individual practice cultivates in general; the partnered practice cultivates in particular. Cultivating In general and in particular.... is cultivating above and below ... that sets the stage for something magical to happen.

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[AbammonTheGreat]

What methods and techniques do you use or recommend for direct access to your own subconscious?

Hypnosis is the most effective and "clinical" tool ive been able to find in my quest for the simplest way to train beginners. But any of the dream practices deal with this. Lucid dreaming, astral projection, specifically WILD was my favorite tool for years. But dream training is alot more work than beginners want to do so hypnosis became the tool I use with people at the very beginning of their journey.

 

[ElectricEgregore]

I think it is all about decluttering and eliminating to build a new state of mind in the long term.

Getting rid of all kinds of distraction and choices in the daily - from input to the choices of food, clothing, mood (meaning tying mood to action).

Basically embracing boredom. Sitting with yourself in an 'empty' room. Nature preferably. Notice how looking into the trees shuts off thoughts.

Gyoji is the hardcore variant of it, the monk routine of doing the same thing at the same time every day -
this way one comes into the state that Buddhists and some yogis describe as 'doing without doing' or doing without attachment.
When you always practice there is no question if or when you would practice.

That would be the way to reach a balance of subconscious and conscious.

Breath is key to reach states easily that can be created through other actions as well - all things trance. Hypnosis also creates these states.
Sexuality is a good metaphor for this as well as breathing - choosing a rhythm that is different to the normal state of mind (which btw in modern times has to be fought for through the aforementioned elimination of distraction) and changing the rhythm in cycles.

Many people that are a bit 'adhd' need movement to calm the monkey mind - be it yoga or dance, burpees or a walk.
I think breath is one of the easiest non invasive ways, like maybe also fasting. Of course we all know there are ways and plants and so on that open the mind for re-programming, that would be the invasive way.

In short i would say - Rhythm is the answer, repetition of breath, sound, movement, routine, dream dairy, painting and drawing, writing -
there are some writing techniques that surrealists use to come up with poetry that connect the subconscious with the 'hand':

Automatic writing -
-Write continuously without censoring or editing.
-Let thoughts flow faster than your logic can judge them.
-Don’t pause - the 'nonsense' is the gold.

Dream Journaling -

• Record dreams immediately after waking.
• Extract recurring images, emotions, or words.
• Use fragments as raw poetic material.

Hypnagogic Rift-

• Capture thoughts in the half-sleep stage between waking and sleeping.
• Keep a notepad by your bed; this is where surreal imagery thrives.
• Also used by Dali and Edison for 'lucid microdreams.'

Stream of consciousness writing-
-Unlike automatic writing, this allows minimal structure or grammar.

• Observe your inner monologue in real time.
• Helps detect recurring archetypes or suppressed emotions.

Cut-Up Technique a la Burroughs-

• Physically cut written text and rearrange it.
• Reveals hidden narratives and subconscious patterning.
• Works powerfully when combined with surreal imagery.

Collage and Assemblage-

• Juxtapose unrelated words, images, or objects.
• Symbolic 'collisions' mirror subconscious associations.
• The irrational becomes the architecture.

Symbolic free association-

• Pick a random word or image - write every thought that arises.
• Don’t aim for meaning -aim for momentum.

Mirror or shadow dialogue-

• Write a dialogue between yourself and your shadow, reflection, or alter ego.
• Let the 'other' voice speak its truth.

Sensory deprivation and overload-
-Silence, blindfolds, repetitive sounds, or flashing lights can open deep perception.
- The subconscious responds to altered sensory input.


Trance or repetition states-

• Repeat a word, gesture, or movement until meaning dissolves - similar to mantra
• From this liminal void, intuitive phrases arise.

Tarot or symbol deck writing-

• Pull random cards; use their symbols as triggers for imagery or narrative.
• Allows archetypal depth to surface naturally.

Surreal prompts-
- Start from paradoxes: 'The moon bled in the telephone.'
-These bypass logic and activate visual and emotional subtext.


To write as they did basically you don’t polish -you surrender. Just like with psychedelic substances - you let go and allow the irrational to take over. Let your mind wander and your hand follow. Write before thought catches up. Record your dreams before they fade. Rearrange the fragments until strange new meanings surface. Listen to coincidences, let random words, symbols, or objects dictate direction.
Getting out of the way so that what’s hidden can speak. When syntax breaks, when logic dissolves, when the dream and waking world blur -that’s where the subconscious begins to write through you.

 

[Asteriskos]

What methods and techniques do you use or recommend for direct access to your own subconscious?

Some good ideas here, I would also recommend that you do some serious work with Liber MMM the neophyte syllabus in Liber Null & Psychonaut!

 

[Sabbatius]

What methods and techniques do you use or recommend for direct access to your own subconscious?

Are you looking for something more specific like a certain sub-practice in Neuro-Linguistic Programming?