In Vajrayana Buddhism there is the meditation practice called the Generation stage, which means (as far as I understand it) that you visualize yourself as a completed Buddha and identify as such (Divine Pride). You project several other buddhas or deities that represent aspects of Reality in circles around you in an immense celestial palace and eventually absorb them in parts of your body. Finally you let everything dissolve into formlessness.
This is a method to recontextualize all appearances into pure view. This means seeing yourself and all sentient beings as fully realized and omniscient Buddhas.
Can anyone that has experience in this practice share if it is effective.
Also I am interested in practicing this and other vajrayana mind-technology but I want to avoid taking Buddhism as an ideology: Any experience or advice on that?