Hallucination Meditation - overloading the RAS

Summary

July 5, 2019, 12 min

An open-eyed walking meditation from Maxwell Cade: taking in every sight, sound and bodily sensation at once to overload the reticular activating system and glimpse the right brain's view. Includes the Mind Mirror's origins, a Walmart story where the store seemed to breathe, and a sunset illustrating left- versus right-brain perception.

In this video

Teaches

Hallucination meditation

Discusses

Left and right brainMaxwell CadeMind MirrorReticular Activating SystemJill Bolte Taylor

Mentions

Francis of AssisiBrainwavesAnna WiseJudith PenningtonExpansionRight hippocampusAwe

Key moments

00:00St. Francis: the weather is always nice, but in different ways 00:31Introducing the hallucination or RAS overload meditation 01:34Left brain focuses on one point; right brain takes in everything 02:14Maxwell Cade, Anna Wise and the Mind Mirror 03:38Judith Pennington and getting a Mind Mirror 04:08The technique: take in every sight, sound and sensation at once 05:07The left mind wants to collapse it back into simplicity 05:40Walmart story: the pies expand and contract with the breath 07:11Why it works: overloading the reticular activating system 07:56Living only in the right brain would overload you: Jill Taylor 09:02What the right brain is like: a thousand sunsets 10:51The effect collapses as soon as you stop