while laying on my girlfriend's chest i had a vision. in an entirely black landscape. there are 2 parallel white lines in the middle of your field of vision. these lines have arrows on opposite ends and they are moving in opposite directions. the path these lines take is circular, orbital, like a planet's rings. they circle you. in the space between these lines, when the arrows pass over each other, there is a black hole. the black hole grows in size, never intersecting with the lines. it grows outward from you, deep and seemingly endlessly expanding forward. it inches closer to the lines, infinitely approaching them but never meeting them. this vision was not accompanied by the same gravitas as normal conscious imagination. it carried the weight of the numinous, of subconscious communication. this experience, which reached a level of importance that is beyond the usually felt meaning, has a name. a name that came to me when i saw this vision. a name for an experience that was collaborated on and cocreated by two people working together on an active, subconscious, telepathic level. it is sacradelic.
when people do psychedelics they tend to believe that what they're being shown is something more than just the inner workings of their own mind. they believe that some kind of grand truth is being revealed to them. plainly, psychedelics reify what someone already believes. someone less connected to their subconscious is liable to believe that an epiphany they receive from this type of substance is representative of how the world works as a whole, rather than how their own mind works. i believe the "ego death" associated with psychedelics is a trap that tricks a person's brain into making this mistake. ironically, people who regularly take psychedelics seem to have the biggest ego of all and falsely understand their shadow to be something akin to "worldly truths" - things outside of themselves that they've been made privy to - rather than a part of them specifically. having your subconscious essentially vomit up scraps of itself while you're uniquely receptive, and less able to process it as coming from your shadow, lends itself to a type of personal understanding, or misunderstanding, that someone who is unindividuated/unintegrated wouldn't get to experience otherwise. it needs to be stated that you can experience accessing your subconscious and allowing it to show you the numinous without being under the influence of a mind altering substance that disallows proper reflection. it's a crutch.
the information you have about green is different from what i have about green. my green is not your green. and i don't mean that what you think of as green might actually be red - i mean that on an informational level the thoughts associated with green are different. we have differing experiences, memories, feelings, people, items, textures associated with green.
to communicate on a subconscious level you must be aware of this and transmit all of this, plus your understanding of the entire process. not just the process at which you've come to known your green, but also the process of transmitting that green, and the process of making your green coherent to another person's green. note that while you must make green coherent to the other person, you must also make your understanding of your green coherent to them.
you must, consciously and subconsciously, think of green. your green. the universally understood green, their green, your experiences, memories, feelings, everything within you that contains or evokes green - including peripheral information associated with that green. alternate between all of this. sponge (as in, imagine your energy, the energy in communicating, and the energy of the concept itself, growing out of you and then retreating back inside) the idea of green in all directions, and sponge the entire process of communicating green. sponge your understanding of green, sponge your model of their coherence in understanding of your green. and you must do so consciously and subconsciously, you must have the parts of your mind intersect and eclipse each other like the rise and fall of your chest as you breathe. for this purpose, i believe laying your head on the other person's chest naturally potentiates the process. after all, the rise and fall of the breath is associated with many numinous or mystical practices, and in nature, like with the tides, the moon, or hormonal cycles. the connection to your own thoughts even on a conscious level waxes and wanes. for example, intrusive thoughts come to all of us and in a healthy mind we notice them and let them go and continue on. subconscious communication can be seen as a type of collaborative meditation.
it is a taxing process. over time you might find certain rhythms of alternating between these processes and the sponging of them to be more effective. the use of entactogens might prove beneficial, as having a high capacity for vulnerability is probably necessary to make a connection at such a deep level.
to communicate in this fashion you must first decide on what to communicate. picking an object is a good place to start. for example, think of a net. think of nets. think of a sphere, or a ball. what you're thinking of is different from what i am thinking of. even if you manage to think of the same object we are still not thinking of the exact same object. and most definitely our objects do not exist in the same place, or time. the spatiotemporal elements of the concept/object are not to be taken for granted. when trying to transmit the concepts of a soccer net and a soccer ball to my girlfriend i found the concept of "net" and "ball" were transmitted rather than the sport of soccer. partially because i have limited experience with sports, but that's what made the ideas novel to transmit in the first place. could i communicate a concept that i know, which holds significance for me, that isn't attached to someone else's schema of my personality, through things that aren't so strongly influenced by the dominant understanding of the concept? the importance here is in the periphery.
we found that the concept of net and ball were definitely transmitted - through networks and atoms. what i had been focusing on was the construction of the net, how it was woven together like a web. and the ball, too, was woven of patches of fabric of whatever it is they use to make soccer balls. threaded, interconnected, multiple pieces making up a whole, creating something much larger and much more spectacular than the sum of its parts. those parts being the construction of the objects and what the elements of that construction mean, the process of construction, and even further still; the similarities between the object and other concepts, both in construction of it and the finished production. and how through being constructed and made into an object they again became part of the construction of the game of soccer. truthfully, at the time of transmitting this, the narrative aspect of explaining this process escaped me. i didn't voice these thoughts as concrete words or as a whole process. i attempted it vaguely, intuitively, but without as much effort as i've described here given toward the structure of the process. this is a shortcoming of mine for i feel it's incredibly helpful to have as many possible entry points for the other person to be hooked into the communication as possible and having a stream of words tying concepts together is as useful a technique in successful transmission than anything else. regardless, we had success here. after silently employing this technique we talked about what arose in our minds and figured out where our thoughts were coalescing.
it is less important that you transmit the exact subject you're thinking of than it is to arrive at coherence on the periphery. as stated earlier it is impossible to have the exact same concept of "green", "net", or "ball", so the outcome is akin to two children each building castles using different blocks that couldn't possibly ever produce the exact same castle.
ultimately, in order to even begin this technique, it is crucial to understand your conscious and subconscious mind and to understand how you make sense of information using them. it is important to understand how you and whoever you communicate with store experiences and concepts in your memory. you don't, and shouldn't, communicate exclusively through these modes but the storage of memory is an automatic process in your mind and the more of those that you're aware of, especially the ones you have any influence over, the better. you will never fully master your mind as it is an on going process, and even the action of attempting mastery changes it in a way that might very well make it less mastered by the nature of the process to change the very thing. a moving object is harder to catch than a stationary one. a moving object that reacts to attempts to be caught is even harder yet.