also, there're the stretchy cartoony vocal and percussive/springy sounds
that do lots of sonic morphing throughout the background of the trip
experience. "*sproioioing-ng-ng*" "*hngkrskranchn*"
I spent the bulk of my last trip listening to this music. Since it was a
low dose I bundled myself in a sleeping bag to keep my body warm so I could
focus better on the info that was streaming in. I found that I could easily
induce a trance state in which I felt like I was under some kind of dome
(though I don't know if it is the same "dome" described by Terrence and
others), a place that is not a place, like a bubble of air flowing in a
stream beneath ice.
I felt my body in the sleeping bag, and appendages of energy, like an orb
of many colors that seemed to project itself just above my forehead. I
noticed that the energy patterns which passed through my body reminded me
of experiences you all have described at different times: I felt
two-dimensional for a while, I felt like my body was being scanned by some
very invasive energy (I interpreted it as a scanning, but the discomfort
could as easily have resulted from the super-charging of the neural
network). The energy patterns felt particularly odd when they passed
through my stomach and organs. I might have interpreted the sensation as
nausea, but I never actually felt sick.
And there were sounds in this mind-place: the cricket gurgle of water (the
sound of the cricket is supposed to be related to the heart chakra), the
hubbub of many voices in a neigbouring chamber. This was coupled with the
sensation that other entities were very close, though I did not sense these
other beings/becomings in my immediate psychic vicinity. I also heard long
looped sounds that might go something like "*sproioioing-ng-ng*," or
perhaps one might think of a didgeridoo sampled and modulated into
neighbouring frequencies. Over this droning, percussive background I heard
an aqueous chirping of birds and fugue-like structures played on the
violin. It ocurred to me that this space has been traversed many times
before, and these sounds form the substrate from which earthen music
flowers. I was able to imagine musical parts which quickly ceased to be
under my direct control, weaving themselves into the rest of the chorus. On
top of all this, I was able to see visul manifestations of the music I
could hear... though I am hard pressed to describe what I saw.
my big quest now is to experience out-of-body trance without mushrooms
(though I have no intention to give up the mycelial route). I have been
trying to work towards astral projection, but it takes a long time and a
lot of persistence to become used to the shift. Does anybody out there have
interest or experience in such practices? My book on astral projection
<> by V. Van Dam has a very interesting section on
astral entities that may be of interest to Rob and others on the list.
