>>130034
Not sure, wouldn't doubt it, but you don't need to drown yourself or actually put your life in danger to do it. They probably did it that way because most people back then didn't know how to actually use their imagination.
>>129999 (Damage-Cap Quads Checked)
>>130007
You can enter a state of gnosis using super-strong amounts of any human emotion, but for someone who has no idea what the fuck they're doing, they should stick to stuff like Love and Happiness. Imagine something you love like really strongly and how nice it is to be with it/him/her. Imagine that someone comes up to you and gives you something really fucking awesome, like amazingly unbelievably awesome. Imagine that moment when you hit a casino jackpot, or win the lottery. Keep mentally hyping yourself up, like "Oh my god, this is happening, this is really happening!" until you hit gnosis.
Does it sound crazy? yeah, but here's the thing, your subconscious can't tell the difference between reality and imagination.
You'll know what gnosis is when you feel it. I really want to avoid "pre-loading" into your brain what you think gnosis should feel like, but know that it will be a bit weird, but interesting. That point on, you can do all the brain-hacking you want: just be sure to aim for a "good enough" result, or you can autistically ask every single little detail so you can be sure you get the result you absolutely want.
Another method that you can use or supplement the above with, is meditation. Get comfy, and literally imagine nothing. If you find that not working, then imagine a white dot inside a white circle over a background of pure black. Augment this by Imagining that picture being square in your head- behind your eyes. If your head is noisy with thoughts, just let that be, keep going back to nothingness, or the picture of the white circle with the dot in the middle.
Love and happiness aren't the only emotions you can hype yourself up with to, but they are by far, the safest of them. If you want, you could try the other spectrum of emotions, Sexual Desire is another one that should be relatively safe to use, provided you can keep desire for release under control just long enough. Alternatively, Anger, Fear, Sadness. But be sure you're emotionally sound and this doesn't trigger an old memory that's hurt you before: lingering negative emotions attract low-tier entities that feed off that shit.
File related, some occult postings from a /fringe/ user named Khan, lots of agnostic and useful information in there but ignore his attitude towards sex/fapping: it's just straight up hateful, you should enjoy sexual release, rather than be shamed for it.. If you want a more esoteric approach, look up "The Kali Kaula, by Jan Fries", it gets wordy at times, but it's organized enough to where you don't have to fucking comb through chapters to look for a single sentence of good info.
Welcome to the ride, bros.