Science has proved the existence of God

[DetlefK]

173. The limits of consciousness... Tricky.

I can only give you a materialistic point-of-view here.

I think, our consciousness is limited by the computational powers of our hardware (the brain) and by the biases we derive from the experiences that happen while our program is self-programming. (Which stops in the Mid-Twenties. From there on, character-traits are permanent.)

Google has invented the algorithm "DeepDream" (based on a neural-network architecture) that turns normal images into surreal paintings. Multiple commenters have said that this is what the world looks like if you take LSD.
From this I draw the conclusion that drugs to not enhance our consciousness but only distort what is already in there.



There are methods to go to the limits of our mind though. Right now, only one method comes to my mind, the "ars memorativa" ("the art of remembering&quot . The method is at least 2500 years old, said to have been invented by Simonides of Keos in ancient Greece, though he is just the most famous among those early users.

The ars memorativa is basically a hack that allows you to exploit the fact that our brain is exceptionally good at some tasks, so you rearrange your way of thinking to use the same processes for other tasks.
Our brain is really good at remembering locations and the our brain receives the strongest emotional stimulation from optical images.
The ars memorativa exploits this by intentionally rearranging memories as images carefully arranged in locations.

There are dozens of variations and off-shots of this technique, and it's important to pick a particular technique that fits your personality. The "Memory Palace" is the most famous of these techniques, though practitioners of the ars memorativa like Quintillian and Metrodurus of Skepsis suggested more abstract frameworks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

A warning: The ubiquitous availability of information via printed books (and even more so by smartphone and internet) has altered the human way of thinking. A contemporary human has a harder time getting used to this technique than a human from ancient times who didn't have the luxury of taking notes and looking things up and had to rely on his memory alone.