Death experience as a method of the consciousness transformation

Chod

This method is called Chod in the Tibetan practice. Its essence is that the challenged goes in the night-time to the most terrifying remote places such as a cemetery, gorge, deserted bank of a river or the woods. There shall be no dwelling or living being nearby. The Tibetan people think that these very places concentrate the biggest number of death spirits and the other subtle beings.
A person shall pitch a tent there, sit down inside and start playing the kangling, which is a special musical instrument made of a human thighbone and resembling the pioneer horn. The longtime playing the kangling reminds the breathing holotropic practice, which brings a human into a trance state. This process is also helped with the monotony of actions, hours of darkness and inhospitality of the surroundings. A person looses his internal sense and may even leave his body setting out on an astral journey being pursued by death spirits.
The challenged shall not run away from subtle beings or fight with them since all the essence of this practice is that he goes to meet them and throws himself to the uncontrollable power of death accepting even the worst-case scenario.
If Chod has become a success, in the morning the person wakes out of the trance state being exhausted and deadly tired. But at the same time he feels something like rejuvenation, sharpening of the world perception and a rising tide of zest for life. Usually, to ensure the best results, Chod is practiced a few times.
Throwing himself to being torn to pieces by spirits and feeling no fear but only patience and even love, the person may attain the powerful transformation of the consciousness, which will lead him to an absolutely new spiritual level.
The foundress of Chod is a woman – Machig Labdron, who was born in Tibet in the early 11th century. She devoted her life to Tantric practice and created a new method of the consciousness transformation, which not only aided the abolition of psychological problems and the mastering of fears but also factored into throwing off mental disorders. Machig Labdron had a son, who suffered from the mental disorder. So she advised her son to practice Chod and after that he made an absolute recovery. That is why many psychiatrists place this woman’s name on a par with Bekhterev and Freud.

Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca is a psychedelic decoction made by shamans in South America. It is made of the liana of 50-meter length. Pieces of the liana along with leaves of various plants are boiled for 24 hours to get the decoction rich in plant alkaloids. This decoction has been in use for ages to fall into a trance to travel to supernatural worlds, worship Gods, cure the mind and soul as well as to divine what the future will be like.
Experienced Amazon shamans observe the strict fast before gathering of herbs essential for the ayahuasca. They pray while gathering herbs and some of them grow the liana themselves being of the opinion that the special care intensifies the decoction’s wonder-working properties. Even nowadays many shamans think that this decoction represents some kind of the supernatural power, which let them enter the world of spirits and gain secret knowledge. The intake of the ayahuasca is a real rite that requires preliminary preparations, being in ceremonial mood and a thoughtful and serious treatment of this procedure. Only in this case it is possible to declare that the consciousness transformation is absolute and powerful.
Normally, the intake of the decoction is followed by the sickness and vomiting, which are signs of the cleansing of a body and soul. It is thought that all illnesses, fears, psychic pains, problems, complexes and worries disappear in such a way. And if the challenged takes this cleansing as essential catharsis, it will do much more good. If the rite is performed correctly, the person shall feel relief and ease.
The rite may be accompanied with some unusual inner sensations such as fear induced by the understanding of the God’s greatness and your nonentity compared to Him, regrets for committed sins, perception of your true inwardness, liberation from illusions that fetter the personal freedom, understanding of your empire over the world and simultaneous acceptance of your feebleness compared to the Power that rules over it. Also, a person may feel his personality dual or triple when trying to understand who he really is. But the most important knowledge he gets after experiencing his own death. At this moment all the person’s life flashes before his eyes being shockingly distinct and showing all mistakes, lapses and rises. Lots of death spirits tempt him. And all in the same breathe the «deceasing» is given with secret knowledge and revelations, which unfix all established notions about the world and himself.
After roaming about dark labyrinths of the unconsciousness and astral levels as well as after all wonderful discoveries and mystical experiences, the challenged returns to the real world being an absolutely different person. And his life gets changed enormously after that. He becomes actually enlightened after so called «death».

Nadabrahma

This ancient practice of Tibetan meditation is also connected with the rite of dying and consists of two parts. A person sits down, closes his eyes and starts droning (with his mouth closed). He shall feel this droning passing through his whole body. There comes a point of time when the droning sounds by itself and the meditating becomes an outside observer. In the space of half an hour of such meditation a person concentrates on his inner experiences entirely and his brain gets supersaturated with oxygen. And the falling into a trance happens in such a way. The meditating lifts his hands apart and sort of gives himself to the world, Universe and all outdoor being dissolved in them wholly. At the same time he realizes that the world is alive and he will not disappear when giving himself to the universe but will become more happy and perfect. He fells himself dying as an individual while being dissolved in the space but also re-arising in his new capacity all in the same breath. Then the meditating kind of accumulates the entire energy of the Universe in his solar plexus feeling his rebirth physically and…gets out of a trance state.

Blue light mediattion

Osho taught his followers to die in waking life. To do the same, you shall just go to bed before falling asleep and feel that you have died and cannot even move your arm. Little by little your thoughts start failing since the thinking process is possible when alive only. It will take you to practice for a few months to be able to stop thinking entirely. And in some time the moment will come when you learn to die in a few minutes feeling like a blue light in doing so. There will be no body and thoughts but only shining perception, which will be the only real form of life. Such a meditation before falling asleep may turn every night into little death, which will let you feel much more live and real in the morning. Everyday death meditations actually transform the consciousness and make us really ever-living.
All these practices differ from one another but are united with one main condition, without which they are not considered successful. You shall feel being in harmony with rules of death and birth and accept them both mentally and physically. The death for the sake of life and the collapse for the benefit of rebirth are not just hollow words since it is things interfering with us and being uncharacteristic of us that die and only our anima, which is proof against the decay and collapse, remains. Not everybody is able to take a leap in this chasm as many people are frightened with the obscureness. But those, who have ventured upon the transformation, takes the plunge with no fear and hesitation. A person overwatches a true drama unfolding inside him being both a participant and an onlooker. He accepts the new vision of the reality as a gift, which will never leave him as there will be no way back in case the death experience has been real…