/psy/ - Psychedelics and the Shamanic Tradition

What techniques do you use for controlling the consciousness during a psychedelic session?

The basis of mine are different meditation-techniques. And I feel like it's a great place to start, a requirement even, for all who journey into other types of conciousness. Stopping movement, taking a relaxed position and concentrating on breathing is a good way to get started. The ultimate goal of this is to calm the mind entirely. No talking, no thinking, no doing and no moving. Usually this is all that is needed, as when the motivation becomes to stop everything, you gain huge insight into the moments of experiencing game-reality when you start participating and moving and doing again. Meditation has a huge impact on how things play out, and it has given me much.

Very useful all around; in lighter sessions with cannabis etc, where things might take a confusing turn when memory will not work quite the way it does in normal reality, and a must-have lifesaver during heavier sessions, where large doses are included.

I'm very interested to learn more. Especially if someone had tips on how to contemplate and discuss different ideas during a session in an intellectual manner, I would be very grateful to know some. The problems with this are many, one that I've noticed is that when time loses meaning and/or is experienced differently, it is very hard to keep track of the point of it all. Lots of times what keeps happening, is that because I do not perceive time, I go into overanalyzing, not knowing when to move on from one thing to the next.