The Mystery

Quantum theory tells us that light behaves both as a particle and a wave existing in superposition until observed. The famous double slit experiment revealed that observation collapses probability into reality. But what exactly is observation? If your cells are continuously emitting photons, if your DNA is radiating and absorbing light, then observation might not be something you do, but something you are. You are a living field of awareness interacting with the quantum field through light. Every photon your body releases could be a tiny act of observation, a micro collapse of probability into form. From this perspective, your physical existence is a dynamic conversation between matter and consciousness, a dialogue written in light. Meditation experiments have revealed intriguing hints. When people enter deep meditative states, the coherence of their biophoton emission increases. The light becomes more ordered, the body more synchronized. Under stress, that coherence fragments. It'...

'The Illustrated Guide to the DMT Entities' is a book written by the researcher David Jay Brown and the artist Sarah Phinn. Their objective is to map the entities with which DMT users have encountered with the help of illustrations created with the generative artificial intelligence application 'Midjourney'. It is no wonder why DMT has been called the 'spiritual molecule' and that it is also found in religions such as Santo Daime — after all, ayahuasca (the root used to brew the tea drank during their rituals) has DMT and harmine in its composition. The curious part is that almost half of the users have experienced encounters with entities and that they repeat over the reports, to the point that it’s possible to create a 'bestiary' of them and find intersections with existing cosmologies. In the case of the DMT users, these encounters happen after they are for at least 5 to 10 minutes under the effect of the drug, a feat hard to be achieved only through ...

In the classic mythical or archetypal journey, Christopher Vogler explains, “The hero naturally encounters new Challenges and Tests, makes Allies and Enemies, and begins to learn the rules of the Special World.” So it is with lucid dreaming; dream figures, whether they take animal, human, or non-human form, often seem keen to initiate the lucid dreamer into the deeper possibilities of lucid dreaming. The feeling we have on waking up from a dream is often a big clue as to the importance of the dream. Dreams can leave us feeling depleted or energised, depressed or buoyant, sad or happy, and the stronger the emotion is, the more the dream calls to be worked on, thought about, honoured in some way, and integrated into our waking life. In initiation lucid dreams, if we feel we’ve been shown something of value, it’s good to write down the dream and spend time reliv­ing it. What is it really showing us? If we open our hearts to our lucid dream figures, we may find they have a great deal to te...

  A particularly intriguing presentation of biophotons in association with humans cannot be missed: The biophoton intensity seems to be modulated by intention or human interaction during healing or other various kinds of bioenergy practices. Links have also been suggested between biophotons and observations that are difficult to measure and quantify, including consciousness, mind–matter manipulation, and paranormal phenomena at the moment of death. One could argue that an experimental control that appears common to all these phenomena is the involvement of human factors, which at the physical level will reside in the engagement of neuronal activities, no matter whether autonomic or intentional. The variation in surface biophoton emission has been known to correlate with changes in metabolism. When living organisms become stressed, the ROS varies to subsequently change biophoton emission. Induced changes in photon emissions offer physiologically relevant explanations for some human ...

For nearly 50 years, a theory has lingered in the background of psychiatric research: that the human body might naturally produce a molecule capable of slowing down a brain enzyme linked to hallucinations. Now, researchers in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy are revisiting that forgotten science. Their goal is to identify and characterize a natural 'brake pedal' in the brain — one that could open the door to a new class of drugs for the production of endogenous DMT. The 'brake pedal' McCurdy’s team is investigating is a naturally occurring molecule that may slow the activity of an enzyme called indolethylamine N-methyltransferase, or INMT, which helps produce the powerful psychedelic compound dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, in the body. A 1977 study suggested tiny proteins in the body could block the enzyme, but the research stopped there. Nearly 50 years later, UF researchers are revisiting that early work in hopes of replicating it. “If we can characterize th...

The DMT world transcends archetypal form. So alien. So other. As such, the brain tries to make sense of the experience by translating the perception into some archetypal form: the Insectoid, the Elfish, the Reptilian, the Trickster. ‘The DMT state, at its deepest levels, is the apotheosis of the alien. It is a world that the brain should not know how to build. It is a world that should not exist and yet there it is, irresistible in its construction and undeniable in its presence. To smoke DMT means to confront not merely a different world, but one that is, frankly, impossible.’ So it’s not a dream. It’s not a hallucination. It’s not an 'Archetype of the Collective Unconscious'. It’s not even a drug. It’s a reality switch. How best to express this notion of sudden reality switching – instantaneous journeying – than by the metaphor of the radio first used by Henri Bergson over a century ago, and updated by Andrew (and many others) to the television. The radio and the television d...