PRESSURE-PROOF YOUR MIND: THE PURSUIT OF NONORDINARY STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Keith Saggers
Life-Performance for Precision, Self-Mastery & Well-being. Mentor. Transform Hope Through Action Facilitator.
Humans have always been drawn to something beyond the mundane.
Something extraordinary. Something that shatters the flat-line hum of everyday awareness and plunges us into deeper waters.
You see it across history—shamans, mystics, warriors, visionaries.
They hunted nonordinary states of consciousness (NOSC) like a predator stalking prey, instinctively sensing that answers lay there.
Today, the hunt is alive and well.
We seek it everywhere: in meditation, psychedelics, extreme sports, prayer, flow states, sex, breathwork, or staring long enough at an empty horizon.
What changes is the method, not the impulse.
Because at its core, the pull toward altered states is universal—a drive to transcend the limits of “normal” consciousness, even if just for a moment.
Modern science has caught up with what yogis have practiced for millennia.
Plato gave us a clue when he described ecstasis as an altered state where our normal waking consciousness vanishes completely, replaced by an intense euphoria and a powerful connection to a greater intelligence.?
It translates as “stepping beyond oneself” or “to be or stand outside oneself.”?
In other words, ecstasis, as the Greeks called it, is not mystical fog. It is biology—neurons firing, chemistry shifting, energy dropping into new rhythms.
Nonordinary states of consciousness may feel indescribable, but they are anchored in something measurable. They are states where the brain rewires itself on command.
There exist many different forms of NOSC; they can be induced by a variety of different techniques or occur spontaneously, in the middle of everyday life.
It’s also, of course, the antecedent to ecstasy, which is a term used to describe a profoundly unusual state of consciousness defined by Wikipedia as “a trance or trance-like state in which a person transcends normal consciousness.”
What Happens in the Brain During Ecstasis?
Your default waking mind runs like a squirrel in a cage—rapid, habitual, and hungry for control.
The prefrontal cortex, the seat of analysis, dominates. Stress chemicals like cortisol drip steadily, locking you in a beta brainwave state—high frequency, low creativity.
You feel “normal” because normal is tension.
But enter NOSC, and everything changes. The brain shifts:
These states—whether induced by psychedelics, meditation, or extreme focus—are functionally identical under the hood. Same brain, same knobs and levers.
It’s like tuning an instrument: the waves, the chemicals, the brain’s architecture all align to produce harmony.
The Freedom of High-Performance States
Let’s strip this down: NOSC isn’t an escape. It’s a return.
A peeling back of all the noise—biases, compulsions, judgments, memories.
What remains is raw perception, unfiltered.
High-Performance States (HPS) are a version of this: a nonordinary state that delivers calm, certainty, confidence—an unshakable composure that cannot be faked.
Here, you’re dis-identified from the garbage you carry.
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The mind stops being a backseat driver and shuts the hell up.
You no longer overthink because you no longer think.
Action flows spontaneously—unconsciously intelligent, like breathing. Athletes talk about being in the ‘zone’ or in a ‘flow’ state.
The body reacts in real-time, like a dancer responding to rhythm, like a surfer cutting into a wave. No second-guessing. No effort. Just doing.
Yogis have known this for thousands of years. They didn’t need EEGs or brain scans to tell them the mind could be trained like any other muscle.
Control over brainwaves—over states of being—is the same as mastering any skill. Practice. Perseverance. Precision.
The science now backs it: focus can slow the heart, redirect pain, or calm the storm of thoughts. It’s not magic; it’s will.
The Neutral Zone?
From this altered state comes freedom—the kind that matters.
Not freedom to do something, but freedom from something.
From identification with the mind. From the past that haunts you or the future that owns you.
You see circumstances for what they are—not through the lens of expectation or entitlement.
There is no “you” here. Only clarity. Only presence.
This neutrality doesn’t dull life; it sharpens it.
You don’t become passive. You become precise.
Detached but aware. Energetic but controlled.
Reaching the State
No shortcuts exist here. HPS, flow, ecstasis—call it what you want—requires work.
Conscious control over your states of mind is a learned skill, no different than speaking a new language or playing an instrument.
But the reward is the ultimate prize: the ability to step outside yourself, not to escape life but to master it.
From there, everything becomes possible.
Not because life changes, but because you do.
I have perfected a unique and highly effective technique by which anyone can enter a High-Performance State in less than 3 minutes.
Practice it to make it an on-call skill anywhere at any time as part of your operating system to sustainable and reliably influence your behavioral health (the connection between behaviors and the wellness and well-being of your body, mind and spirit), along with a heightened level of mental conditioning, and ability to perform better under pressure.?
HPS draws upon the neuroscience of ‘brain plasticity’ whereby your mind, stretched by new ideas, new inputs, never goes back to its original state.?
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