Podcast Episode #14 - Shifting Frequencies, Mushrooms as an Ally, and Brian's 24 Hour Rituals

Timestamped Notes 1:00 - Shifting Frequencies and how Brian entrains to other people to shift their energy. 10:30 - The importance of going through ‘neutral’ when shifting into a different state of being using an ‘open focus’ of awareness on your sphere of sensation / aura. 11:00 - video starts 14:00 - Dustin begins talking about his latest mushroom trip / ceremony and the intense challenge of it. By the phrase “you’re doing it” we mean that you are creating / manifesting everything in your life. 15:00 - The importance of having a target or state of being in mind that you want to be in. Otherwise you will entrain to whatever frequency happens to be the strongest at the time. “You’re mind is so powerful you’ll get whatever you think about most of the time.” 18:00 - Brian relates this entrainment technique and the simplicity of it to the wave / particle “observer” phenomenon in quantum physics. 21:30 - The pitfall of focusing on getting rid of what you don’t want instead of focusing on what you do want and allowing that to ‘displace’ what you don’t want. 24:00 - On doing the practice consistently to build momentum in the direction of what you want. 28:00 - The importance of stating what you want before beginning any practice and developing stability of mind. 29:30 - Dustin mentions “The Attention Revolution” by B. Alan Wallace 30:30 - Brian talks about focusing on your nostrils vs abdomen and how these stimulate different types of focus to overcome lassitude and gross excitation in the practice of Shamatha. For more info see B. Alan Wallace’s book “The Attention Revolution” 32:00 - On building the neural pathways we want into “super highways” through repeated practice: for meditation, focus, relaxation, and lucid dreaming. 33:30 - Brian talks about lucid dreaming over 80% of the time he goes to sleep. 37:00 - Brian and Dustin talk about doing mushrooms and Dustin’s latest trip / mushroom ceremony. 38:30 - What Brian does in his lucid dreams 42:00 - Brian talks about his 24 hour rituals. 43:20 - We discuss ‘Allies’ / mushrooms or any other psychedelic plant medicine, and continue talking about Brian’s 24 hour days of spiritual practice 56:00 - We talk about mushrooms as teachers and micro dosing. 1:01:00 - The degree of difficulty of any psychedelic experience will be in relationship to what you are asking for. 59:00 - Your personality is a resonance and you’re going to attract a certain type of ally / spirit 60:30 - Mushrooms are a collective of entities 1:05:30 - Continuing to talk about Dustin's latest mushroom ceremony and his relationship with the Allies, likening then to almost a kind of guardian Angel. Asking for a symbol or word to call them with. “Hold the image of what you want in your mind and say the name (the name or symbol you have chosen or that they have given you)”. 1:07:00 - “What is the symbol of you asking for help?” The subconscious speaks in symbols. What would be a symbolic image that represents the idea of you asking for help? Brian gives an example and we discuss how to use such a symbol in your life. 1:13:00 - The importance of making your spiritual practices personal. 1:14:00 - The nature of the conscious mind. 1:16:30 - Physical movement equates to mental emotional movement and the relationship between the two. 1:18:00 - Brian refers to The Flammarion engraving. A famous work of art depicting a figure looking through the veil of reality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving 1:19:00 - By sphere of sensation Brian is referring to your aura / energy field. 1:19:30 - We discuss the training for this work being hard vs what the mushrooms told Dustin in his last ceremony: “it can be easy when you choose for it to be easy.” 1:21:00 - The dissolution of the energy field, the transition of death, and the goal of freedom within physical life. 1:26:00 - Life as a temporary ‘vacation’ from our authentic eternal connected self. www.2bsilent.com