An Index of Peak States with Their Probabilities of
Occurrence
Revision 2.2, December 28, 2007
Below are brief
descriptions of many of the possible peak states. To
understand what causes these states and why they occur,
refer to our textbooks Peak States
of Consciousness: Theory and
Applications, Volumes 1 to
3. Volume 1:
Breakthrough Techniques for Exceptional Quality of
Life covers the
triune brain fusion states, and Volume 2:
Extraordinary Spiritual and Shamanic States
covers most of
the rest of the states. Volume 3:
Peak States for Research and Healing
covers the
sensate substitute states.
Partial information can also be seen on this website in
the Underlying Model page that
explains why peak states exist and what causes them, and
in the article Spiritual Emergency and the Triune
Brain.
Our work in identifying the states and their key, invariant
characteristics is still ongoing and thus this web page
continues to be revised as new discoveries or corrections
are made. (The revision history is at the bottom of the
page.)
Grouping States by their Underlying
Phenomena
Peak
states fall into groups. Each state in a given group
expresses an aspect of a single, underlying, fundamental
and unique experiential phenomenon. Most groups involve
different 'realms' of existence. The groups that we've
identified so far are:
• Dysfunctional states involving the triune
brains.
• States involving triune brain
fusion.
• States involving sensate
substitutes.
• States involving Gaia (the planetary
consciousness).
• States Involving the Realm of the
Sacred.
• States involving the
Void.
• States involving the
Creator.
• States Involving the Oversoul (and past
lives).
• States Involving the
chakras.
• States involving the primary
cells.
• Miscellaneous states.
• Peak abilities.
The list is not in developmental order - most peak states
can be acquired independently of each other.
Naming Conventions
Most of the peak states listed here cannot be identified in
the traditional spiritual literature, although a few are
recognized as distinct states. Of these few, most have
obscure names that are unknown to the general English
speaking public. Thus, in labeling states we use the
following conventions:
The names of most states are short descriptions of the
state's most noticeable sensation or characteristic. Some
states have different characteristics for men and women,
and in that case we arbitrarily chose the male version
(e.g., the 'Underlying Happiness' state.)
If the state already has a well-known name, we've used it
(e.g., the 'Beauty Way' state). However, if a well-known
name caused confusion to the general public, we chose to
label the state with an unambiguous name and noted the
traditional name in the text. In cases where we weren't
sure of what state the conventional name was trying to
identify (e.g., Christ consciousness), we chose to use our
own unambiguous state name. We realize this may lead to
problems when our definition is not quite the same as other
people's, but in the future we expect the names and
definitions to stabilize as more people work with peak
states.
When describing a state made up of two other states, we
simply combine the names together with the triune brain
state name first (if applicable) and call it a combination
state. If a combination state already had a well-known name
we used it.
Some states, when combined, give qualities that neither
alone possess. In this case we call it a synergistic state.
For example, the Beauty Way is a synergistic state that
already has a well-known name, and that has a quality of
'aliveness' that the separate states do not.
Estimates of Occurrence
In the short descriptive list of peak states below we've
included some estimates of the probability of their
occurrence in the general population. They are based on
evaluations of our North American students. Unfortunately,
these estimates may be wildly inaccurate due to measurement
problems and tiny sample sizes (see Peak States
of Consciousness, Volume 2 for
our measurement techniques), but we included them as a
starting place to give people a feel for the relative
rarity.
There are a number of problems with making these estimates
(although many of these will resolve themselves with more
work and the creation of better measurement tools):
• Have we correctly and fully identified the core
characteristics of each state?
• Where is the cutoff point for someone who is only
partially in the state, and how would it be determined?
• Do we include people who fall in and out of the
state (i.e. the state's stability), and if so what average
percentage of the time would they have to be in the state
to be included? How would this be determined?
• How do we make externally verifiable and repeatable
measurements that independent investigators can agree on?
• Many people have never felt a given state
characteristic, but don't realize this. Instead, they
assume the words refer to something they do know.
A Discussion About States Involving Internal Light (Inner
Brightness States)
There are two states that involve an experience of light
inside (and outside) the body - the Creator Light state,
and the Brain Light state, and it is possible that there
are others. We give this group of states the overall label
of 'Inner Brightness' states, although they are not
functionally related.
Getting a person with only one type of inner light to
identify which one they have is difficult, as the verbal
descriptions can be hard to apply to the inner experience.
Too, people in the Sacred Body or Sacred Beings state don't
always realize they have an inner light state because their
interior 'looks' fluorescent black to them. Thus, to help
us diagnose which states a person has, we start by asking
if they experience themselves as being 'bright inside', or
as having 'inner light'. Then we can ask more questions to
identify the particular light state they have. The word
'brightness' captures both the quality of a 'bright dark'
and the more typical inner light experience, and so we
often call it this when trying to identify these states in
people.
Confusingly, our Whole-Hearted Healing therapy also uses
the word 'light' or 'lightness'. We use it to describe one
of the endpoints to trauma healing, where the client feels
like a weight has been removed from his body. However, when
using WHH on prenatal trauma, another endpoint to the
healing also occurs - an experience of internal light in
the fetus, sperm, egg, or precellular brain. To avoid
confusion, we try to use the word 'brightness' when talking
about the inner light experience states and lightness when
we are talking about the sensation of losing weight from
one's body. We hope this clarification helps minimizes
confusion.
Dysfunctional States
Involving the Triune
Brains
Brain Shutdown States:
These dysfunctional states exist because the triune brains
can be 'shut off', causing the person to lose that brain's
abilities (judgement, emotional connection, etc.).
Interestingly, shutdown states often feel better than
average consciousness to some people, if they are able to
tolerate the loss of capabilities involved. Note that brain
shutdown states can be partial, with corresponding partial
loss of capabilities. All possible combinations of brain
shutdown states exist - we just list ones here that we've
had personal experience with. Volume 1 of
Peak States
of Consciousness goes into an
explanation of these dysfunctional triune brain states in
depth.
Contrary to our standard practice, we currently chose to
call these dysfunctional states by their cause, rather than
by their dominant characteristic. We did to avoid confusing
shutdown states with simple, ordinary trauma symptoms that
cause a similar effect.
'Mind Shutdown' state
• Characteristics: Inability to form judgments or
make choices. There is a peace and calmness with the state
even with the frustration of not being able to weigh
choices.
• Cause: The mind brain is turned 'off'.
• Comments: No common name that we know of.
• Frequency: Unknown.
'Mind-heart Shutdown' state
• Characteristics: No ability to feel emotions or
form judgments. The body feels like it's made of air,
without a boundary. However, the lower belly feels 'full'
like we'd eaten a large meal.
• Cause: The mind and heart brains are turned 'off'.
• Comments: May also be known as the 'Pearl Beyond
Price' state from the Sufi tradition.
• Frequency: Unknown.
'Samadhi' (Heart-body Shutdown) state
• Characteristics: An overwhelming feeling of peace,
timelessness, and almost no need for oxygen or breathing
(with full shutdown).
• Cause: The heart and body brains are turned 'off'.
• Comments: This state is the goal of some spiritual
traditions.
• Frequency: The full state is extremely rare.
'Heart Shutdown' state
• Characteristics: An inability to feel emotions. One
feels that other people are just objects.
• Cause: The heart brain is shut 'off'.
• Comments: Probably a major cause of
sociopathic/psychopathic behavior. However, we have seen
people with this state who act ethically and morally in
spite of this handicap.
• Frequency: Unknown. However, an estimate can be
made based on the number of psychopathic individuals in the
general population (approximately 1%).
States Involving Triune Brain
Fusion
'Average Consciousness' state
• Characteristics: This state is everyday
consciousness for most people. There is a relatively
continuous (albeit variable) emotional reactivity to some
degree, and an unconscious, underlying fear. People in this
state are strongly affected by other's emotions.
• Cause: The triune brains' awarenesses are not
merged or fused.
• Comments: By definition, these people do not have
any significant peak states. The triune brains 'get along',
but do act like a dysfunctional family.
• Frequency: Very common.
'Inner Peace' state
• Characteristics: A continuous feeling of peace even
while feeling other, even painful emotions. Past traumas no
longer have any charge associated with them. As soon as the
circumstances change, the emotional reactivity stops.
• Cause: Mind and heart brains fused together.
• Comments: A subset of the Beauty Way state.
• Frequency: Not yet determined, but probably in the
5% to 10% range.
'The Beauty Way' (also called Walking in Beauty)
synergistic state
• Characteristics:
• Calm,
peacefulness, and physical sense of lightness.
• Past
seems not traumatic - memories are without emotions.
• Feel
totally alive, and everything around you feels alive too.
•
Everything has a sort of beauty, even garbage.
•
Spiritual truths are obvious.
• No
dreaming other than replays of the day's events.
• No
underlying sense of fear.
• Live
entirely in the present.
• No
tension - like on summer vacation as a kid.
• Bird
sounds are more vivid.
• Don't
take on other people's emotional distress.
• Don't
obey 'experts' automatically by giving up your own knowing.
• Can do
many shamanic sorts of things with training.
• Silent
mind, i.e. no voices or background murmur.
• Cause: A combination of the Inner Peace state (with
the mind and heart fused) with a limited connection to the
Creator. Creates an unconscious decision to make
perceptions continuously positive. The component states
interact synergistically to create new characteristics.
• Comments: An important state for shamanism, and
physical and mental health. A better descriptor for the
state might be the word 'Aliveness' as used by Harville
Hendrix, but we're choosing the better known label of the
Beauty Way for now. The state is well described in Eckhart
Tolle's The Power
of Now.
• Frequency: Estimated that both this state and the
Inner Peace state occur in 8% of the general population
relatively continuously, with an additional 14% who can
recognize it.
'Underlying Happiness' state
• Characteristics: A feeling of happiness underlies
all other feelings. It exists simultaneously even with
difficult feelings such as sadness or anger. In women, a
continuous loving feeling is more dominant, although the
happiness is still present.
• Cause: Heart and body brains fused together.
• Comments: Doesn't stop the past from feeling
emotionally traumatic.
• Frequency: Estimated 9% relatively continuously,
additional 12% recognize it.
'Big Sky' state
• Characteristics: The world feels huge. Looking at
the sky, it feels gigantic. Your boundaries disappear,
especially above your head.
• Cause: Body, mind and Buddha brains fused together.
The sensation of the huge sky is from a body sensation of
the relative distance between objects and one's body.
• Comments: I'm not sure if I've accurately analyzed
this state. Treat it as possibly being due to a non-triune
brain phenomenon. More work needs to be done on it.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Brains Communicate' state
• Characteristics: The three brains can communicate
with each other. Brains interact like a dysfunctional
family.
• Cause: The heart brain acts as an interface between
the brains and the conscious self.
• Comments: A useful intermediate state, but not as
valuable or dramatic as a fused one. In a Perry diagram,
the circles all touch slightly.
• Frequency: Estimated 12% relatively continuously,
additional 23% recognize it.
'Deep Peace' state
• Characteristics: Deeper peaceful feeling than the
Beauty Way. A feeling of being balanced, evenness, no
irritation. Feels like the physical heart is lower in the
body. Feel more lightweight. Not effortless, but not as bad
as normal consciousness. Brains are aware of each other,
can communicate directly, and you are aware of each
simultaneously.
• Cause: Brains' awarenesses are superimposed, but
not completely fused. No hollow sensations in the body.
• Comments: This is an intermediate triune brain
state that occurs just before the Hollow state does.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Hollow' state
• Characteristics: Body feels hollow inside the skin.
All parts of the body feel 'continuous'. Emotions have a
cognitive rather than affective quality.
• Cause: All brains are fused together.
• Comments: Chakras are not merged. Brains are not
connected to the Realm of the Sacred. When the state is
partial, just some areas of the body feel hollow.
• Frequency: Estimated 7% relatively continuously,
additional 12% recognize it.
'Wholeness' state
• Characteristics: The word 'wholeness' is the most
accurate for this state, and is used spontaneously by
people who acquire it. A feeling of being complete, with
nothing missing. Music is especially vivid.
• Cause: A fusion of the placental and sperm tail
'awarenesses' with the other triune brains.
• Comments: The sensation of wholeness exists
independently of the state of fusion of the other brains.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
States Involving Sensate
Substitutes
'No-Skin' state
• Characteristics: No sensation of having a skin
boundary. Events in general don't cause one to lose
perspective, and events no longer feel personal, at least
at first. It is generally found with the Hollow state, so
that the entire body feels like it's just made of air where
the boundary has vanished.
• Cause: This state is the result of removing a
dysfunctional primary cell layer, and eliminating a problem
that occurs during Creator separation.
• Comments: The skin boundary layer can become very
permeable, which can feel like it has been removed when it
really has not been. The skin boundary feels like it
'burns' a bit when in the Hollow state. Eliminating the
layer removes the sensation that events are 'personal'.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Silent Mind' state
• Characteristics: All involuntary mind chatter
ceases. (Involuntary mind chatter is often particularly
noticeable during meditation). It is still possible to
subvocalize.
• Cause: Eliminating a certain type of extremely
common fetal trauma gives the state.
• Comments: This isn't really a peak state, but
rather an absence of a trauma related problem - but it
feels like a state to the person who has it. Most people
can suppress their awareness of the chatter to some degree,
like ignoring other conversations in a bar. Some peak
states (like the Beauty Way or Inner Peace) temporarily
shut off the involuntary mind chatter - but if one leaves
those states, the mind chatter returns. In our trainings,
this state is a prerequisite for other states such as
'Brain Communication' and remote healing techniques such
aWHH.
• Frequency: Extremely rare. Everyone we've checked
has had the underlying problem.
States
Involving Gaia (the planetary
consciousness)
'Gaia Communication' ability/state
• Characteristics: An ability to communicate with
Gaia, via one or more senses (body sensation, a feeling or
vision, or hearing). At it's best, it is a clear
transmission of information at every level (to each triune
brain). Gaia can be 'heard' in what seems like words in a
particular syntax called 'Gaia commands' (or equivalently,
Gaia instructions, phrases or messages).
• Cause: Full Gaia connection is a natural state.
This connection is blocked by developmental trauma,
resulting in an unwillingness to hear (or obey) Gaia.
• Comments: A partial state gives rise to an
intuitive knowing of what one is supposed to do. We believe
Tom Brown Jr. calls this state 'Inner Vision' - we changed
the name to because Gaia can be 'heard' as well as send
images.
• Frequency: Very rare for the full state - the
partial state of 'intuition' is common.
'Inner Harmony' state
• Characteristics: The flesh of the body radiates a
sensation of harmony. At a deeper level, one can see a
golden web that is trying to perfect itself.
• Cause: Not yet determined.
• Comments: This is probably a connection to the
human species consciousness.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'World Inside Body' state
• Characteristics: Things in the environment feel
like they are inside one's own body. The state is also
characterized by greatly enhanced creativity.
• Cause: Acquired late in development.
• Comments: We formerly called it the Unbounded
Awareness state in the 1st edition of Peak States of
Consciousness.
• Frequency: Very rare.
'Being Another Lifeform' ability/state
• Characteristics: A people can experience himself as
other beings, such as animals, plants or even rocks. One
experiences senses and bodily processes as the animal does.
• Cause: The state is gained at birth.
• Comments: This state is called 'shapeshifting' in
shamanic literature.
• Warning:
This state must
be acquired under competent supervision because o fthe risk
of overwhelming suicidal feelings and actions becoming
activated.
• Frequency: Very rare.
'Regenerative Healing' state
• Characteristics: Gives one the ability to heal
virtually any physical injury or degeneration in just
minutes.
• Cause: It is a natural ability. The blocks have not
yet been determined.
• Comments: This ability comes from a strong Gaia
connection. We formerly called it 'radical physical
healing'.
• Frequency: Very rare. It is almost always momentary
in the few people who can access it.
'God/Goddess' state
• Characteristics: One (temporarily) experiences
oneself as a non-human god or goddess.
• Cause: Not yet determined.
• Comments: The triune brains can chose to make this
connection to the god/goddess state individually. When
experienced with all the triune brains, you can experience
yourself as the Creative Principle itself, or equivalently
'Brahma, creator of worlds'. We're still investigating if
this should be a permanent state or not. The state was
called the "Creative Principle' state in
Peak States of Consciousness, Volume 1 (Ist
edtion).
• Warning:
Potentially
serious problems can result if only some of the brains make
the transition. For example, extreme fanaticism,
experiences of 'dark gods' such as Kali, etc.
• Frequency: Extremely rare.
'Gratitude' state
• Characteristics: A sensation of gratitude at all
times. This enhances ones Gaia connection and other peak
states.
• Cause: Not yet determined.
• Comments: This is the state that the 15-Minute
Miracle process is designed to help people access. Useful
for healing and for acquiring other states.
• Frequency: Not determined, but found occasionally
in many people. It is infrequent as a stable state at full
strength.
States
Involving the Realm of the Sacred
'Sacred Body' state
• Characteristics: Part or all of the body radiates a
feeling of sacredness.
• Cause: A partial connection to the Realm of the
Sacred. It can be lost at coalescence or conception.
• Comments: The Sacred Beings state usually includes
this state, but the two can be separated.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Sacred Beings' state
• Characteristics: The full state makes on feel like
a huge, sacred totem pole is inside one's body. Each brain
is the physical expression of huge, sacred beings that look
like totem pole carvings. The sacred beings co-exist in the
Realm of the Sacred, an empty space filled with luminous
blackness.
• Cause: The state is blocked by early precellular
events. It occurs when the triune brains let go of their
'pretend' identities.
• Comments: The state could also be described with
the words 'sacred totem self'. It is possible that the
state is called the Akashic Records in the yogic tradition.
The locations of the Sacred Beings in the Realm of the
Sacred correspond to the locations of the triune brain
awarenesses.
• Warning:
This radical
state will initially cause disorientation and difficulty
walking. People who unknowingly acquire the state usually
think they've become psychotic.
• Frequency: Very rare.
Sacred Beings and Creator Light synergistic state
• Characteristic: The body feels sacred, one can see
oneself looking as if composed of totem pole images, and
space inside is a bright fluorescent black.
• Cause: Same as individual states.
• Comments: The blackness is a partial view into the
Realm of the Sacred. This synergistic combination of states
changes the internal clear white light of the Creator Light
state into a bright black fluorescence.
• Frequency: Extremely rare.
States
Involving the
Void
'Void Connection' state
• Characteristics: A sense that the ultimate
emptiness of the Void, which is past all physical
existence, is within oneself. With a feeling of finally
knowing who you are.
• Comments: The void may be called the Infinite or
the Tao in other traditions, but the word 'void' fits
experientially. We suspect that the Void contributes to a
person's conscious awareness in the same way that the
Creator does.
• Frequency: Very rare.
States
Involving the
Creator
'Creator Light' state
• Characteristics: An internal light that can in some
cases extend past the skin boundary. It has more of an
intense white color to it, not a broad-spectrum light like
sunlight. It can be accompanied by feelings of bliss and
perceptions of either a tube leading upward from one's
body, or of standing in a column of light. This state
allows people to regress at will.
• Cause: A limited connection to the Creator.
• Comments: People describe this 'light' as being
intense or energy charged. It often feels like it comes
from above. Can be used to regress as in the 'life review'
of the Near-Death Experience. It comes in varying degrees
of brightness - the full state is extremely bright. When
experienced with the Sacred Beings or the Sacred Body
states the light looks a bright florescent black rather
than white.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Creator Awareness' state
• Characteristics: Can 'speak' to the Creator
directly and move awareness to that level of being at will.
Characterized by a sensation of standing in a plane of
white light with feelings of bliss.
• Cause: Full connection to the Creator.
• Comments: A more complete version of the Creator
Light state.
• Warning:
Over-identification
with the Creator can occur, leaving the person with the
feeling that everything is as it should be, so they don't
feel any need to try and help suffering people. This
serious problem needs to be directly addressed or it
remains.
• Frequency: Very rare.
'Expanded Center of Awareness' state
• Characteristics: The location one feels one is
located inside the body expands to fill the body and the
space around it. There is a sensation of becoming very
large and tall.
• Cause: The shape and location of the 'center of
awareness' (CoA) is determined by very early precellular
trauma during the totem pole stage.
• Warning:
When acquired
suddenly, this state is disorienting because one becomes
the environment around oneself, including the roads and
cars outside. Walking is difficult for a time, until one
gets used to the state.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Being Present' state
• Characteristics: Always in-body. Attention is both
directed both inwardly and outwardly simultaneously. Past
trauma has little or no physical pain when re-experienced.
• Cause: Blocked in a Creator bubble developmental
stage.
• Comments: This state can be identified in the
primary cell - trauma strings appear white instead of
black. This state can be experienced on a per brain basis.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Spaciousness' state
• Characteristics: A pronounced feeling of space and
openness through and around oneself, regardless of
emotional or physical crowding. There is a distinct lack of
emotional reactivity.
• Cause: This state is acquired at a Creator bubble
developmental event.
• Comments: This state is the goal of at least one
spiritual path. The Primary Cell state is built on this
state.
• Warning:
People who
suddenly acquire this state are often felt to have become
emotionally distant by their loved ones, causing
interpersonal stress.
• Frequency: The state can be temporarily accessed at
will by about 30% of the general population. The state is
stable for a smaller but undetermined percentage.
'Brain Light' state
• Characteristics: In the full state, one finds it
impossible to feel negatively aggressive towards others. A
diffuse, 'soft' clear light that looks like sunshine is
present in the body in the locations of the triune brains
awarenesses. One also 'sees' an inner radiance that is
centered in other people's lower belly, and automatically
interacts and communicates with it.
• Cause: This is the light individual triune brains
have when they have chosen good over evil. Creator
separation trauma blocks this state.
• Comments: For most people the brightness of the
triune brain awarenesses varies due unconscious choices
between good or evil, but its nominal value is set at
birth. With the full state the brains remain at full
brightness and choices for evil become impossible.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Life Path' state
• Characteristics: This state gives one the ability
to see one's future as a series of branching paths in a
florescent black space.
• Cause: Gained at conception.
• Comments: The optimal path is the brightest. Once
on it, the person has a sense of euphoria.
• Warning:
It
is possible to trigger a spiritual emergency when
attempting to acquire this state.
• Frequency: Unknown, but probably pretty rare.
'Being on Track' state
• Characteristics: The state has a strong feeling of
euphoria (not manic). The feeling one gets when at one's
best, and the sense that nothing can go wrong. A sense of
knowing who you are and if activities match and fit who you
are.
• Cause: The feeling occurs when the person is on
their optimum life's path. This state may have some Gaia
involvement also.
• Comments: As far as we know, this is not a state in
the normal sense - our current process requires us to
continually heal relevant trauma to stay on the optimal
course through life. However, it is likely that there is a
way to make staying on the optimum path automatic, and thus
it would meet our definition of a state.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
States
involving the 'Oversoul'
'Past Life Access' state
• Characteristics: With the full state, all past and
future lifetimes fuse into one, simultaneous single
awareness.
• Cause: The ability/state is blocked by oversoul
trauma.
• Comments: Accessing past life traumas involves the
use of a different mechanism that is probably unrelated to
this state.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Loving-Kindness'
state
• Characteristics: Incredible love and strength,
feels like we imagine Jesus must have felt.
• Cause: We suspect it's a choice of all good in
every brain. Still unverified.
• Comments: I believe this is what it feels like to
have all the brains choose good, or love. It feels a lot
like you are love, not just feeling love. It may be a
combination state or a unique state of its own. I continue
to investigate. Formerly listed as the 'Christ
Consciousness' state.
• Frequency: Not determined
Peak
States Involving the Chakras
'Flow Awareness' state
• Characteristics: A feeling of having energy flow
from the back to the front of the body, as if coming from
moving air from behind.
• Cause: Fusion of all chakras into a disk near the
solar plexus.
• Comments: People in average consciousness
experience this state slightly differently than people who
are in the Hollow state do.
• Frequency: Not determined.
'Minimal Sleep' state
• Characteristics: The person normally sleeps only 3
hours or so and is completely rested.
• Cause: Chakras and meridians are optimally
connected.
• Warning:
There is a risk
of becoming unable to remain awake, or so energized as to
become unable to stop moving, if these developmental events
are not healed correctly.
• Frequency: Not determined yet.
Peak
States Involving the Realm of the Primary
Cells
'Spaciousness' state
• Characteristics: A pronounced feeling of space and
openness through and around oneself, regardless of
emotional or physical crowding.
• Cause: This state is acquired at a Creator
developmental event.
• Comments: This state is a necessary prerequisite
for the Primary Cell state.
• Frequency: Can be temporarily accessed at will by
about 30% of the general population. Stable in a smaller
but undetermined percentage.
'Primary Cell' state
• Characteristics: Ability to 'see' and move around
and vary perspective inside the primary cell.
• Cause: Not yet determined.
• Comments: It is necessary to have the Spaciousness
state before one can get the Primary Cell state.
• Warning:
It
is possible to harm or kill oneself by trying to change
things in the primary cell.
• Frequency: About 20% of the general population is
able to access the state, although some of these people
cannot 'see' into the cell. Having a stable and continuous
state is much more uncommon.
'Being the Body' state
• Characteristics: The conscious and the subconscious
merge into one fused awareness
• Cause: Perfect linkage between the nucleolus and
the organelles in the primary cell.
• Comments: This state hasn't yet been proven to
exist.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Essence of Self' state
• Characteristics: The person feels more solid,
centered, and doesn't feel like they are 'falling apart'
during problems.
• Cause: Total fusion of the chromosomes in the
nucleolus.
• Comments: This heals Multiple Personality Disorder
(MPD) and the existence of the mother and father selves.
The state name may change in the future.
• Frequency: Roughly 70% have MPD to some degree.
Virtually everyone has some degree of separate father and
mother directing selves.
'Self Neutralization' state
• Characteristics: One's future is no longer fixed by
past trauma.
• Cause: Proper functioning of the mitochondria in
the primary cell.
• Comments: We believe this state is found in some
Tibetan Buddhists. We may change the state name in the
future.
• Frequency: Extremely rare.
Miscellaneous
states
'Ecstatic' state
• Characteristics: Feels like a continuous endorphin
rush.
• Comments: This appears to be what the Sufi teacher
Rumi was referring to.
• Frequency: Estimated 1.5% relatively continuously,
3% enough to notice it.
'Inner Gold' state
• Characteristics: The interior of the body turns a
deep bright golden color to inner vision. If the brains
fuse, the resulting ball has a golden color.
• Cause: Unknown at this time.
• Comments: We're not sure what this is for, but the
alchemists clearly thought it was important. People doing
extensive inner development achieve this eventually.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Listening to Silence' state
• Characteristics: A deep inner silence even when
internal or external noise is present.
• Cause: Undetermined at this time.
• Comments: An extremely pleasurable state sometimes
encountered in long meditation. Not related to the Silent
Mind state.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Wolf Awareness' state
•
Characteristics: Greatly enhanced awareness of all senses.
• Cause: Not yet determined. It is blocked by trauma.
• Comments: This is a traditional shamanic
state/ability practiced by Native North American people.
• Frequency: Not yet determined, but relatively
common with training.
Peak
Abilities
'Seeing Brain Awarenesses' ability
• Characteristics: One can 'see' the non-physical
triune brain awarenesses as what looks like balls of light
in a black background.
• Use: One can use this ability to diagnose triune
brain shutdown states, diagnose the 'flattened emotions'
problem, measure the degree of the brain light state
(good/evil choice) in oneself or in clients, identify
triune brain fusion states, and draw Perry diagrams.
• Cause: Acquired at birth.
• Warning:
This ability
must be acquired under competent supervision because of the
risk of overwhelming suicidal feelings and actions becoming
activated.
• Frequency: Rare.
'Seeing Pillars of Self' ability
Description: One can 'see' three golden columns in a
person.
Use: The number of columns, their height and solidity
indicate problems in the client's 'directing' self, and the
presence and degree of multiple personality disorder.
Cause: Not yet determined.
Frequency: Rare.
'Seeing the Golden Web' ability
• Characteristics: The ability to see the human
species genome.
• Use: We suspect it might be useful for repairing
DNA.
• Cause: This ability is part of the Inner Harmony
state.
• Frequency: Not yet determined.
'Inner Vision' ability
• Characteristics: The ability to 'see' events (or
the inside of a body) and to know information about what is
seen without being taught. There is no out-of-body
experience, but it is rather like watching a TV screen.
• Use: Extensive shamanic healing and survival uses.
• Cause: Not determined. It is the result of Gaia
communications.
• Comments: This name is from Tom Brown Jr.'s work.
We currently believe this is a subset of the 'Gaia
Communication' state. This ability is also sometimes called
'Remote Viewing'.
• Frequency: Rare, but relatively easy to train for
using shamanic techniques.
'Out of Body' (OBE) ability
• Characteristics: The ability to move out-of-body
with the sensation that you've physically moved to these
places. One can adjust the viewpoint to see inside people's
bodies.
• Use: It can be used to diagnose some physical
problems.
• Cause: Not yet determined.
• Comments: Probably a state on its own. Previously
listed as the 'cellular awareness' state, but we now
believe it is part of the OBE ability.
• Frequency: Uncommon. 'Psychic' practices exist that
can trigger it in some people.
'Hearing Event Music' ability
•
Characteristics: One can 'hear' unique and repeatable at
each developmental event.
• Use:
This music can be transcribed into real sound, and used as
an aid for regression to particular developmental events.
• Cause:
The ability is acquired at conception.
• Frequency: Rare.
'Wide Angle Vision' ability
• Characteristics: The ability to see clearly in the
peripheral areas of vision. At its maximum, the ability to
see behind the head with full three-dimensional perception.
• Use: This ability is associated with facilitating
the acquisition of spiritual and shamanic states.
• Cause: It appears to be associated with the Being
Present state.
• Comments: Both Rinzai Zen Buddhist and Tom Brown
Jr.'s shamanic training emphasize the importance of this
ability/state.
• Frequency: Unknown, but relatively common (to some
degree) with training.
In
conclusion:
A variety of
changes can be experienced from our work - either by
healing the traumas that block intrinsic abilities, or as a
consequence to changes in states of consciousness. They
include: needing little sleep, seeing surroundings in vivid
three dimensions, each moment of time feels infinitely
long, the body feels like it’s floating, everything
is effortless, music sounds rapturous, merging with all
past lives simultaneously, and a host of other changes. For
more on this and our methods of testing for the states,
please refer to Peak States of Consciousness Volumes 1 to
3.
Revision History
2.2: December 28, 2007. Change the name Realm of the Shaman
back to Realm of the Sacred after consulting with Tom Brown
Jr.
2.1: March 27, 2007. Changed the Realm of the Sacred back
to its original name, Realm of the Shaman. We found out
that German did not have a translation for the word
'sacred', and we found it simplified communication to use
Tom Brown Jr.'s nomenclature. Aslo updated many of the peak
state descriptions.
2.0: June, 2005. Updated the entire list of states. Changed
Realm of the Shaman label to Realm of the Sacred.