It may seem counterintuitive, but research has revealed that one of the most important keys to transitioning to higher levels of consciousness are to not intellectualize or study it too much as a topic.

The more you do that, the more something becomes an idea in your mind. And, if you’ve never experienced higher levels of consciousness, you can never have an idea that’s so accurate about it that it helps you to actually get there. In fact, the exact opposite happens.

Knowledge can be helpful to provide context after transitioning or even during transitioning. But once you experience it, you’ll realize that what you thought you understood was way off. You’ll have the classic aha moment where what you’ve studied or read suddenly makes sense, but in ways you could have never imagined prior to the experience itself.

The reality is that more you form ideas about what higher levels of consciousness is and what it will be like, the further you actually get from the actual experience itself. Generally the deeper you go down those rabbit holes, the worse your chances of reaching a form of higher levels of consciousness that’s optimal for you and your life.

Research protocols that incorporate this and are practice, not theory, based work much better. These protocols are simply sets of instructions for exercises that when followed, produce a rapid, reliable, and safe transition to higher levels of consciousness for a majority of the people who use them. 

This is one of the greatest things about them. They collect the most reliable and effective methods that have been found through research, sequence them in a very precise way, avoid theory and other things that engage the mind, and set participants on a course that gives them the best possible chance of reaching higher levels of consciousness. They explicitly avoid adding any excess theory or ideas.

This is exactly how you should think about structuring your own path to higher levels of consciousness. Endless books and hours of YouTube videos are most likely only getting you further away from higher levels of consciousness, not closer to it. 

Researchers notice that people who come into their research protocols with no clue about what higher levels of consciousness is often transition much more smoothly than seekers who have devoted a lot of time and effort to studying it. 

The reason for this is simple, they haven’t built a mental model that they have to escape from so they can transition. They can just come in, do the work, and reap the benefits.