PSYCHONAUTICS AND SUFISM

Psychonautics and Sufism

Psychonautics and Sufism

Introduction:

Psychonautisme, psychonaut and psychonautique are terms representing a "browser of the soul" and his doctrine, including both a method to describe and explain the effects of subjective states of consciousness, including with psychotropic substances, and at the same time a research paradigm in which the researcher is immersed in an altered state as a means of exploring the existence and human experience (Strickland, 2001, pp. 151).

The research paper mainly covering the approaches of Psychonautics related to 'Sufi' tradition. Therefore, for this purpose the researcher presented the brief introduction of Sufism.

According to the researcher, Sufism is a way of life (din is the Arabic word used by Sufis to refer to it) that implies a worldview and involves a lifetime commitment to every aspect and facet of existence. There is then talking about literature, poetry, music or Sufi dancing like compartments, activities that occur apart from the rest and with an end in them. All it does the Sufi is oriented to the conquest of enlightenment, spiritual opening that allows one to "see the face of Allah" or what is, to annihilate the ego to experience all the Self (and not just mind) the Unity of all creation, the mystical Union, in which the separation disappears observing subject and observed reality.

The researcher came across another piece of definition, which states that “Sufism is nothing other than a road or tariq that begins with self-knowledge. The Sufi returns to the inner heart and uses it as a vehicle to reach a more advanced understanding. It takes the mind as a principle, but his heart. That is, do not use a discursive way, but sensitive. Thus, the tasawuuf (Sufi path) is called The Way of the Heart” (Mattingly, 2009, pp. 1209).

Discussion

The Sufi techniques

In Europe, the Sufi teachings of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan are of this genre. They are focused on perceived levels of consciousness. It will be necessary to go through several states to enter the mode of transcendental consciousness, the archetypal and then finally to the cosmic. Dreams are one of the access roads. First, remember one's dream is to accept the dimensions of our being. There will be remembered in the morning personality that you had in your dreams as consciousness during dreams is not centered, and to overcome the illusion of self, we must develop the ability to look like a person other than the one believed to be. The essential thing is to recover the memory of consciousness to be had during dreams. One feel freer because one forget his/her own ego, he uses his active imagination and may feel cosmic, but for this, one must learn to let go confusing dreams are but a rumination of the impressions of the day. By reducing the involvement of memory in favor of pure imagination, you reach the level of pure creativity, and then man becomes "creature creator and founder created." Similarly, using the technique of vacuum-clean look, it has overcome ...