Attention!
To those who wish to conduct the experiments, please read the cautionary note/disclaimer below before continuing to the set-up plan for the experiments
(Experiment 1 Set-up and Experiment 2 Set-uptt).
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Cautionary note/Disclaimer
The experiments described here may lead to several types of problems.
Performing these experiments is done at your own risk.
Emotional/mental health: Generally speaking, experimentation with meditations and consciousness exercises may lead to consequences such as strong emotional reactions. In my experience, when practiced daily over a longer period of time (months), the length of time spent daily has coincided with the extremity and seriousness of the consequences. The same applies to courses or exercises that call for repeatedly throughout the day forcing oneself to adopt specified thoughts or states of consciousness.
In this arena it’s impossible to attain the desired result more rapidly by increasing activity.
I’ve never experienced any good results coming from thinking problems or depression are signs that things will improve if I just hold out long enough. Every lasting improvement in mental health and well-being have come from focusing on the goal of a better life, reducing active participation in negative activities, and doing more of what’s enjoyable. (This is covered in more detail in book 2, The Third Experiment.)
Motivation: Most of the things we do to build a career or reach the material goals so central in a normal life require considerable effort and sacrifice. Therefore, we need motivation. For my part, that kind of motivation was probably not the best prior to the experiments and was definitely considerably less after. The flashes of extreme Joy and sublime JOY automatically became a standard of measurement for life and meaningful purpose. They revealed happiness and fulfillment in magnitudes no career or amount of consumption could even begin to provide. Traditional goals became downright meaningless. Loss of motivation for a career and material goals is a probable risk involved with the two experiments. I imagine this to be the case to some extent even if you don’t succeed with the experiments. In my opinion, if you’re satisfied with your life as it stands, you shouldn’t even think of trying the experiments.
Fear: When the events taking place are internal, as is the case with these experiments, one of the biggest challenges is the fact we’re alone. It requires a much higher level of self-reliance and capacity to make decisions and analyze risks independently than most of us have to drum up in everyday life. This can of course be frustrating and disquieting. And that’s just the beginning. My experience with Experiment 1 was that it was impossible to carry it out without coming face to face with the fear of death. (But. It is also my experience that this disappears as soon as the day’s experiment is over.)
All in all, we’re talking about setting off on an adventure where there’s a chance of experiencing a glimpse of something wonderful, something never to be forgotten. There are risks, there are challenges; it requires discipline, stamina and patience. But, with curiosity and motivation, these are the very things that help make the journey exciting and alluring.
The experiments are performed at one’s own risk.
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