The Mechanics of Inner Knowing: How Non-Ordinary States Change Everything

The sort of transformation and perspective and unfolding that you are seeking does not occur in everyday life, everyday normal reality.

You can’t really think or mindset shift your way into a better life.

Deeper levels of consciousness, alpha, theta, delta brain waves states, are a gift to all of us for this reason.

This is why we meditate, do guided visualizations, and take plant medicine (where these brainwave states live).

For the perspective, the insights, the connection with Truth and deeper knowing.

This is also why some of us receive our greatest insights in our sleep, or in that fuzzy stage when we are just beginning to fall asleep or just beginning to wake.

From these brain wave states and the associated hormonal changes we experience, humans are able to bring back different perspectives into ordinary reality. That’s the point.

Making things more clear, for ourselves, and for the world around us.

Once those networks and pathways have been re-opened by hormones like dopamine, serotonin, GABA, and DMT, life will change.

The connection to self, others, Spirit, and nature will never be the same.

Richer. More complex and beautiful.

You see the bigger picture. You understand. You know. You just know.

Not thinking. Or feeling. (Although that is exponentially amplified, too.)

Knowing.

We often complain that life doesn’t come with an instruction manual but in a way, it totally does. We have just forgotten how to access it.

As a guide, witness, and caregiver in the spaces of non-ordinary reality, the key for me is really attunement.

In sessions or circles where I’m guiding folks deep into these internal spaces of non-ordinary reality, my job is to guide, yes, but also to know how to let them be there and how to match the frequency while still maintaining the safety and integrity of the space.

I allow my own brain waves to slow and descend. I match my own state of consciousness to that of the client or group, so I can be there with them where they are, to guide well.

There’s a balance that needs to occur here, of gentle direction and guidance vs spaciousness and allowance. If I pull clients out with incessant instruction, suggestion, even invitations to go to a certain place within, they lose their sovereignty over that inner realm, and their access to the deepest knowing.

As much as some people think they want the added guidance, chatting, and instruction, it’s actually harmful. This is the macro perspective I am speaking of.

You have the instruction manual within.

Men and women often have different instinctual responses to these non-ordinary states, and that is part of the nuance of support and guidance and integration, as well.

While both/all gain that higher, widened perspective, men are more likely to receive action steps and direction, and women more likely to receive reassurance and peace.

This is not the case 100% of the time, of course, but when it happens like this, there can be some mourning at the “loss” of the other type of experience.

That is where impeccable integration support comes in.

When we humans allow ourselves to enter deeply into non-ordinary reality, we still experience the pain and chaos of ordinary reality, but that’s no longer the focus of life or the focus of our awareness.

When, over time, we are able to build a more solid-state of these non-ordinary hormones and brain waves in our system, by giving ourselves the space and time to go there frequently, we kind of sink into a state where even if there is pain or challenge or chaos, we are still connected to an overall human experience that is much bigger.

We desire to keep maintaining this state within because we feel that it brings us closer and closer to transformation that we desire, collectively and individually.

Part of my job as a spiritual teacher and guide is to help people gather tools to access those deeper states of reality even in day to day living, so there is something other than the pain and chaos of ordinary brain wave states.

Ordinary reality brain wave and hormonal states are kind of a bummer, to be honest, if that is all we are feeling.

So, in the beginning of your journey to build more of this within yourself, you may work with a teacher or guide 1:1 regularly, because these neural pathways aren’t deep yet and ordinary life will bring you right back into the spiral of normal chaos pretty easily.

There’s a forgetfulness associated with the immaturity or lack of depth of these specific neural pathways.

But, if you work 1:1 with someone, you know you have your weekly or twice per month session with a guide who you can just look at, sense, or hear … and their frequency alone can bring you right back into those deeper brain wave states.

This is why it’s important to use discernment when you choose a teacher or guide.

Might as well attune to someone who is connected to a different, beneficial human experience.

I did eye gazing with a sister the other day, and kirtan the day before, and both of those experiences were psychedelic/non-ordinary in nature.

Not only for me but for the eye gazing partner and the people sitting around me in kirtan.

And really, every day has some moment of ecstatic bliss and connection with oneness for me.

People often leave their first session with me and say it was trippy, like a psychedelic journey.

And this is not me boasting about myself at all.

It’s about sharing how possible it is for us all to attune to a different frequency of brain wave, and to attune to and channel the frequency of the earth and the field of loving consciousness around us…

To allow Source (or hormones/DMT) to move through our channels freely.

To activate the endogenous bliss and non-ordinary reality hormones that our body wants to produce, and then actually let them course through our bodies and affect our entire energy field.

This is non-ordinary reality. This is alpha, theta, and delta brainwave states.

While living in ordinary reality. And completely sober.

That is why I live in a community like Nosara, because those around me can go there, and we can all amplify each other.

My perspective is that we don’t need to sit in countless plant medicine ceremonies or even daily meditation for the rest of life… (maybe some of us do, and that’s fine, no shame at all, but..)

We are being invited to access and turn on the endogenous medicines already latent inside us no matter what we are doing in life.

To create the depth and width within ourselves to really be able to contain that experience as we walk around this world.

As we wash the dishes and pick up after our kids and work and drive around running errands. (Spoken like a true householder, yeah?)

My perspective is that this is a huge untapped resource for us collectively and individually. Non-ordinary reality.

Because pain and chaos and discord lives in ordinary reality. In beta and gamma brainwave states.

And the more you sit in that reality without taking a break, the more you forget.

And the more you forget, the more painful it is.

People who are “woke” say things like “I can’t do this anymore. I need to go back to sleep. This is too intense. Things were easier then when I could just sit on the couch watching the news all night like a normal person.”

That’s assuming there are only two options. This or that.

When we all know there are literally hundreds of other “this’s” you can choose to experience.

Attuning yourself to deeper brain wave states and more ecstatic hormones (plus the capacity to contain and “do” as needed while in these states) is a “this” you can choose.

Taking care of yourself in a different way.

Evolving the way you Be, according to the signals you’re receiving about your discomfort with your normal lived experience.

If you’re interested in joining me for a SPIRITWALK or a 1:1 session where we can access these states together, you can receive your clarity and guidance and perspective, where you can tap into your Truth and your knowing about whatever life is presenting you these days…

Please do reach out.

When you’re ready, I’ll be here <3