Abusing the LCS and The Dark Side of Consciousness Work Nobody Talks About
This isn’t written through AI. It’s just years of experience and a desperate need to help myself through the attacks and an amazing brother with a Degree in Psychology, shared experiences and an amazing writer and singer song writer.
So one thing I’ve realized after years of going deep into consciousness stuff, OBEs, meditation, trauma, dissociation, and Thomas Campbell’s LCS ideas is that not everybody entering altered states is emotionally healthy or spiritually grounded.
Some people carry the exact same fear, shame, narcissism, emptiness, addiction, manipulation, and unresolved trauma into those states too.
And honestly I think that matters way more than people realize.
A lot of people romanticize astral projection, telepathy, consciousness exploration, psychedelics, lucid dreaming, etc. like reaching altered states automatically makes somebody enlightened. But I’ve met enough people and gone through enough experiences now to think unresolved trauma follows people there too.
In my opinion, some of the people most obsessed with power, psychic influence, manipulation, emotional control, sexuality, domination, or feeding off fear are usually carrying massive unresolved pain themselves.
A lot of them seem emotionally disconnected from themselves at the core:
deep shame, emotional numbness, addiction, resentment, narcissistic wounds,fear of vulnerability, inability to connect genuinely, obsession with control, identity issues, trauma they never faced.
And the weird part is I think those same traits can actually make someone better at dissociation, compartmentalization, obsessive focus, meditation, altered states, and detaching from ordinary reality because they’ve already spent years mentally escaping themselves.
But instead of reaching love, they carry fear into those spaces.
And once fear enters consciousness work, everything gets distorted.
Connection becomes control.
Intuition becomes paranoia.
Spirituality becomes ego.
Consciousness becomes hierarchy and manipulation.
I honestly think some people unconsciously project their unresolved emotions outward constantly. Fear, shame, anger, sexuality, domination, emotional chaos. Whether somebody interprets that psychologically, energetically, spiritually, or symbolically is up to them, but I absolutely think humans affect each other emotionally and mentally way deeper than we admit.
Especially traumatized people.
Especially hypervigilant people.
Especially people constantly living in altered states or obsessive internal worlds.
What took me years to realize though is that fear is what keeps the whole thing alive.
Once fear becomes the lens, your mind starts organizing reality around threat, hidden meaning, emotional reactions, synchronicity, shame, and paranoia. Everything starts feeling loaded and personal. The nervous system gets stuck trying to solve reality itself.
And honestly the only thing that’s consistently helped me has been the opposite of fear:
grounding myself, learning myself, healing trauma,
staying connected to real people, refusing shame,
refusing hatred, refusing obsession and trying to lead with love instead of fear even when my mind wants to spiral.
That’s honestly where I’ve landed after years of this.
If consciousness really is something deeper than materialism explains, then I don’t think the point is power or psychic superiority. I think the point is learning how to exist without fear controlling your perception of yourself, other people, and reality.
This is still something I experience and continue to investigate every single day. But I’m trying to approach it now through self-awareness, healing, curiosity, grounding, and love instead of fear.
And honestly, I think love is probably the only thing that keeps consciousness from collapsing into fragmentation in the first place.