Liberation is not something which comes by simply giving up control. Doing such is simply a slide backwards into the kind of preconscious, prerational material sold by the riverside in the New Age and Self-improvement industries.
The Hard Path to Liberation is one which requires a good deal of discipline, self-aware self-control and a full understanding of your Self-Complex on all levels. Liberation cannot be gained over the course of a simple weekend retreat, a single Working or a particularly ripping bout of flatulence. It is found in the long term work of Mastery. The full formula can be seen as "Discipline - Enlightenment - Liberation."
This is not to say that there is no potential value in consciously descending into the pre-rational. Properly guided such descents can provide one with an encounter with the interior Lead from which the Gold of the Self can be transmuted. This kind of intentional descent is not the same as falsely elevating the prerational, French Kissing the Shadows in Plato's Cave and calling them Divine, or wallowing in your own feces and calling it Transcendence. Rather it is the Key to a kind of Left-hand Path Shamanism or the practice of Seidr and is alluded to in the Mystery of Thurisaz as the Sleep Thorn.
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