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There are any number of ways to make changes in the way one interprets the world. Leave home and go travelling, join a circus, get married, find a job in another state are all the usual goings on. Many associations are changed and many may stay the same. If one loves one's mother or father one would probably want to maintain those associations.
Another technique is self-analysis. One examines
every belief and association and self-determines the validity of each. This takes a lot of mental work and is probably beyond the scope of most people.
Cults and military use the technique of stripping the old personality away, as shaved head, new uniform, new home, new people, new mission, which
may include cutting off family, friends, the old environment the old ways of thinking.
And then there is the far east spiritual ways such as Buddhism, Zen and meditation. The use of meditation is never quite explained, but may be similar to the self-analysis described above. The primary technique and object here is usually the achievement of
Enlightenment, an extremely difficult thing to do. One experiences a heavenly state and unification, with all as one or one as all.
Carlos Castaneda's 'Teachings of Don Juan' used many techniques as sometimes drugs and sometimes real experience in the desert especially at night.
One of the most effective changes of life-experience seems to be near-death experience, which essentially causes one to appreciate life as was taken for granted before. There was a Rod Sterling 'Twilight Zone' on TV just last night on this very subject. This
experience might include out of body experience, which may enable one to overcome the fear of death and one's worthless insignificance.
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