Vishen Lakhiani describes personal experiences with altered-state practices (ayahuasca with a Colombian shaman, neurotraining, breathwork) and argues meditation—specifically the Silva Method developed by Jose Silva—is the most practical, powerful way to access non-waking brain states (alpha, theta, delta) for healing, creativity, intuition, and manifestation. He cites cultural perspectives (Steven Kotler on monophasic vs polyphasic societies) and literature (Stealing Fire; Altered Traits), notes high costs of some neurotraining, and invites viewers to a 90-minute free masterclass tied to Mindvalley's updated Silva Ultramind System.
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May 8, 2020
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In January this year, I did ayahuasca with a shaman from Colombia. Now, for those of you who have never heard of this, ayahuasca is a form of plant medicine. It opens up your mind to new levels of connection and it gets you into what is called an altered state. Now, altered states are fascinating to me. These are different levels of mind that let you tap into human abilities that we in the modern world tend to ignore. Steven Kotler once said, we live in a monophasic society, but indigenous cultures live in polyphasic societies. What this means is that in our world, we learn to function in one level of mind, the beta, or waking frequency. But the mind is far more complex than that. There are other frequencies you can tap into. Alpha for relaxation, theta for tapping into intuition, psychic potential and healing, Healing and delta, where the really crazy stuff starts happening. Now, the thing is, in our modern world, we try to solve everything at the waking level. But in indigenous cultures, they use altered states for really powerful abilities. I spent some time with this tribe, the Ayahuasca tribe in the Amazon rainforest. This is one of many dream cultures around the world where people communicate with each other through dreams. They also use ayahuasca to access other levels of mind for insight, for healing, for communication with a higher power. But the good news is, even in our modern society, we are starting to wake up. In Steven Kotler's book, Stealing Fire, he said that the altered state industry is now a trillion dollars. Everyone from CEOs to Marines to athletes are using altered state tools to access states to expand their awareness. Now, in this book by Daniel Goldman, it's called Altered Traits, Goldman talks about the four main ways to access these altered states. Right, There is neurotraining, and I'm a big fan of that. There is plant medicine, there's breath work, and there's meditation. And Goldman says this, the most important is meditation. So, yes, you can do ayahuasca and I do that. You can do neurotraining, and I do that. But these require a lot of time travel. Neuro training can be highly expensive. I spent about $15,000 for a five day experience. But there's one that gives me breakthroughs like nothing else, and that's meditation. Most people ignore it because most people do meditation in only one tiny way in which it should be done, and that is where they focus on their breath and they clear their mind. That is passive meditation. But there's a form of meditation called active meditation. And when you do this, you get to go and play with all of these Altered States. Now, the most powerful and defined form of active meditation I found, and I've been studying it for two decades now, comes from Jose Silva. He's a mind science researcher who studied and created something called the Silver method in the 60s, 70s and 80s. I've been studying the silver method for 20 years and it's one of the most powerful ways to access the alpha level of mind, for healing, for, for relaxation, for creative visualization. But then going into thinking data in really well constructed ways to tap into psychic potential, to source inspiration, ideas, and then go further to Delta. And in Delta, you communicate with higher intelligence and you shift reality. You see coincidences, you see it's hard to explain, but things just get easier. It's like you are blessed by luck. Now, of all the programs I've studied, the Silva system has been the most defined methodology for accessing and using altered states. And after 20 years of working with the system, working with Jose Silva's family, because he passed away in 1999, Mindvalley is bringing the Silva Method back to the world in a big way. I'm honored to have been asked to be the new face of the Silver Method because of my, my research in this. And we'll be bringing this to mindvalley. And I want to invite you to join me on a 90 minute free masterclass where I'm going to be teaching how to access altered states. In this class you're going to learn about the different states, how to use these states. And I'm going to show you a technique that you can train yourself so that very reliably you can access a particular altered state. And I'm going to give you a tool designed by Jose Silva that allows you to use the state in a really powerful way to do anything from manifesting your dreams to self healing. And this master class is part of the new Silva ultramind system, the methodology that Jose Silva developed just before he died and that mindvalley is now updating and bringing to the world. Thank you. I'll see you there.
