While in a psychedelically-altered state of consciousness, you can intensify the vividness and information density of your closed-eye visuals--at will.
You can also influence their symbolic content.
You can ameliorate any anxieties that arise, and even, should it become necessary, fight off predatory or parasitic entities that sense vulnerability and attack.
How? By singing.
You can control your psychedelic experiences by singing.
Everyone knows psychedelics and music go together like chocolate and peanut butter. These medicines can enhance your experience of music, let you hear things you never noticed, stimulate pleasure in ways you never expected. Psychedelic researches like Timothy Leary, Stanislov Grof, and Christopher Bache have used music to drive their own journeys and those of others. And of course, in the ayahuasca space, practioners use icaros, sacred songs, to treat their patients.
But have you ever considered why and how music can have these effects?
The Phonomantic Method, the set of concepts and techniques the FCDB uses to train visionary virtuosity, suggests music impacts psychedelic consciousness in two ways: cymatically and affectively.
Cymatics is the study of visual representation of vibration. Sprinkle some salt on a metal plate, attach a tone generator, and play an A at 440 hz. The particles will shiver their way into a distinct geometric shape. Change the tone, and the pattern will change.
Music has a similar effect on psychedelic consciousness. But with every tone and overtone stimulating its own vibrations, each colliding with others to create interference patterns, it's no wonder the results can be so spectacularly complex they resemble lucid dreams.
Affect is the psychological term for emotion. Psychedelics--particularly psilocybin mushrooms--amplify emotions, but they also respond to emotion. That is, what you're feeling influences what you see in your visionary space, i.e., your mind's eye. For instance, if you start to feel anxious, you'll get disturbing images.
Singing allows you to put this idea of cymatic and affective effects to practical use.
When you sing the vibrations of your vocal cords create resonant vibrations throughout your torso and skull. Your skeleton shimmers with sound. This is pure physical energy which excites a response from the psychedelic. What you're seeing will become more vivid, the colors more intense.
At the same time, as you probably know from yowling along to a favorite tune while in the shower or in your car, singing allows you to really get into the spirit of the song, whether it's bemoaning a broken heart, or getting psyched up and aggressive, or whatever. This intensified emotion will activate unconscious complexes, which is to say, summon forth memories from times in your life when you felt something similar.
If the feeling is strong enough, eventually it's not just your personal unconscious that you're mining, but transpersonal consciousness. What emerges are archetypal symbols charged with numinous power. Then what you're seeing is more than just tripping; you are, in a very real sense, reading the Universal Mind. This is a stupendous experience! In the PM we refer to it as gnosis, direct and immediate experience of the Divine, and it's our primary goal.
Singing is the key to consistently unlocking such experiences. Intense singing on a good stiff dose of psilocybin can elevate your visionary experience to DMT levels of intensity.
And you don't have to be a great singer to enjoy these effects. Anyone can learn to sing competently. All it takes is some discipline and effort...admittedly, not two words commonly invoked in the psychedelic space ;)
For more information on how it's done, please check out Pa Dammit's book, A.P. Psychedelics: Going Beyond Set and Setting to Achieve Visionary Virtuosity. In paperback on Amazon, and an audio version is free on YouTube!
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