The Intellect can be a very rewarding, mind altering experience. It usually leaves you feeling smarter or at least having something to talk about. The great intellects of all ages and variables circulate among contemporary writers, artists, and occultists and bohemians. These sages all had one thing in common they got off on what they did. The reason the intellects can get you high is that it brings you closer to understanding higher truths. Contemplation the possibility of time travel, for example, forces a thinker to grapple with the notion of time itself. The pondering young theory of the collective unconscious can lead to insights about thought, the interconnectedness of all living things, or even the reincarnation. The intellect is an avenue towards experience the great tens of the cosmos, in fact. Contemplating anything will eventually lead you to a bigger question one can contemplate.
How to create altered states of consciousness with intellectual pursuits. | This episode is taken from excerpts from Stoned Free. You can find it on Amazon. https://amzn.to/3sbg1Vz | The Next-Level of Science of Sound Healing with John Stuart Reid; https://rebrand.ly/SienceofSoundHealing
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The Benefits of the Intellectual Lifestyle
0:02:08
The Benefits of Contemplation
0:04:26
The Power of the Intellect in Spiritual Development
0:10:54
The Sufi Path to Spiritual Transformation
0:12:48
The Kabbalah: A Tradition of Spiritual Necessity
0:14:48
The Kabbalah: A System of Mystical Enligtenment
