consciousness expansion
Psychedelic inner exploration
Consciousness expansion refers to practices or substances intended to broaden awareness, perception, or mental capacity beyond ordinary states.
The term gained currency in the 1960s counterculture, associated with psychedelic drugs, meditation, and Eastern spirituality: LSD was promoted as a tool for consciousness expansion.
It implies accessing deeper truths or wider realities unavailable to routine cognition.
The concept remains central to discussions of psychedelics, mindfulness, and spiritual growth.
- dream analysisInterpreting nocturnal mental imagery
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
- meditationFocused attention practice
- hypnosisInduced trance state
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
LSD · yoga · phenomenology · existentialism · DMT · microdosing · peak experience · lucid dreaming · transcendentalism · out of body · mysticism · enlightenment · flow state · ayahuasca · set and setting · prayer · third eye · higher self
- altered statestrance, altered states, hallucination, altered perception, derealization
- mystic powerspsychic powers, psychic abilities, clairvoyance, third eye, telepathy
- transpersonal psychologyCarl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Jungian psychology, depth psychology, self-transcendence
- personal growthlearning, enlightenment, coming-of-age, growth, knowledge
- self-helpself-help, self-help books, advice, self-improvement, personal development
- Tantratantra, shakti, mandala, kundalini, chakra
consciousness expansiontunnel vision
Inability to see periphery
closed-mindedness · narrow-mindedness · myopia · small-mindedness
consciousness expansionunconsciousness
Complete lack of awareness
stupor · oblivion · blackout · sedation · stupefaction
consciousness, expansion, conscious, consciously, unconscious, unconsciously, unconsciousness, self-conscious, subconscious