Transformation of consciousness

Transformation of human consciousness has always been a effect and goal of many of the spiritual practices and traditions around the world. Foresite, reasoning, dreaming, thinking, myth making, hunting all these various capacities have been and still are spiritual functions of our nature. Various points of focus and concentration have brought about many changes in the over all conscious function of man kind. Shaman early leaders, priest, holy men, sages many of these men existed as a very small portion of the of these over all cultures. these intellectuals and sages made up a small but powerful portion. They realized early on from experience that various visionary, mystical and spiritual experiences effected people in interesting ways opening them up to new information, understanding and awareness. Small changes in perceptions and understandings realizations about the nature of reality bring about overall changes in consciousness and being. Transcendental experiences bring about dynamic changes in the nature of consciousness, overall changes end up altering experience and reality itself. As the nervous system expands and various portions of our body and mind are worked with new layers and levels of experience and reality come in to immediate experience.Many methods such as breathing exercises physical positions and postures methods of visualization, relaxation, meditation,thought experiment and ritual all have been used to move the mind for thousands of years.since the dawn of our species as we know it, some of these being what brought us in to human culture and society.