For decades, the "psychedelic experience" has been treated by mainstream science as a form of beautiful, chaotic intoxication: a chemical "hallucination" that, while fascinating, lacked a predictable map. However, as our recent research suggests, what we often call a "trip" is actually a highly structured, lawful progression of consciousness. It is, in effect, a naturalistic … Continue reading Beyond the “Trip”: Mapping the Universal Architecture of the Sacred
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‘In Your Consciousness I Live’: Surrender, Light, and the Birth of An Authentic Ethics
Some insights do not arise as theory. They appear as lived truth, sudden and quiet, dissolving the need for explanation. They do not come “from above,” nor are they constructed by the psychological mind. They arrive like a clarity that was always there, waiting until we were still enough to recognize it. Two such insights. … Continue reading ‘In Your Consciousness I Live’: Surrender, Light, and the Birth of An Authentic Ethics
Phosphenes & the Ouroboros: How the Brain’s Inner Light Turns Self-Reference into Sacred Vision
Why our inner “visual grammar” and the loop of self-reference make the sense of the sacred both repeatable and deeply personal, and how studying those loops can bridge neuroscience, religion and art. Think of that famous sentence-paradox, “This sentence is not true.” It folds language into itself and produces a tiny electric shock: meaning that … Continue reading Phosphenes & the Ouroboros: How the Brain’s Inner Light Turns Self-Reference into Sacred Vision