The Holographic Philosophy
Abstract
- The universe is a hologram
- The brain is a hologram tuner
- The code is creative evolution
Introduction
The foundation of science is built, first and foremost, on observation.
Ideas are proposed — stated as theories — and attempts are made to materialize the abstraction of reality’s perception into formalized systems of equations based on first-principles.
Science moves forward one theory at a time, experiment by experiment. And without the validation of a theory’s predicted results, there would be no shoulders of giants to stand on. No cell phones and no re-usable rockets.
Therefore, observation is essential to progress.
And through the lens of repeatable observation, the evolution of our ideas has indeed taken us far.
From the formal systems of our thought, we find a wondrous multi-faceted complexity in the expression, opening up whole new worlds of exploration and exploitation in both the physical and mental realms.
And this reveals a dizzying array of technologies which allow us to continue accelerating our climb up the cosmic trash heap of entropy.
Following the logic of formal systems to their inevitable conclusion, we at last reach the truth.
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
Kurt Gödel proved that every non-trivial (interesting) formal system is either incomplete or inconsistent:
- There will always be questions that cannot be answered, using a certain set of axioms;
- You cannot prove that a system of axioms is consistent, unless you use a different set of axioms .
Which means that, wherever science is taking us, it is going to be inconsistent or incomplete.
And therefore, the road of the intellect — in the final analysis — leads to an endless chasing of itself in circles of abstraction.
In this never-ending spiral of logic, we ascend towards the surface of understanding, assured of one thing and one thing only— that we will never reach it.
Nevertheless, having already described the universe and the brains within it, we now turn our attention to its content.
And with language being the vehicle of choice for the evolution of our logic —and consequently, our species — what follows is mostly a string of words from other people, that, while most certainly being inconsistent and incomplete, are arguably not incoherent.
They are bits of information. Symbols, metaphors, and abstractions.
Observations, if you will — stories all pointing at something, so to speak.
21g Trip Report
From u/Metanautics on r/Psychonaut:
As a point of reference, a 21g trip on magic mushrooms is roughly 3–4x the standard heroic dose.
I simply have to trust in the audience’s understanding here, that under the influence, all of these things can hit us at once, in a way that would be indecipherable in our sober states.
I suppose part of the process of integration is untangling all of these elements so that they can be fully viewed and appreciated.
* The Beginning *
I always get very cold to the point of shivering at first, so I strip down and get into bed with a few blankets. I wear an eye-mask serving as a blind-fold, and put on noise-canceling headphones without music, to reduce outside sensory input and just lay there.
Typically within 30 minutes I start to feel something.
In the blackness, a small dot of color emerges from the center, and slowly starts to draw a multicolored spiral.
I always interpret this as the mushrooms saying “Oh hai!! Welcome back!” and waving to me like a good friend in the distance.
The Tunnel
These dancing patterns grow and morph, and a gentle tunnel emerges.
Sometimes these are colorful fractal patterns, which then morph into black and white cubes, then to an asymmetric weave of forest-like branches and roots, and everything in between, save for any kind of specific or discernible entity.
It feels like I am ascending an elevator to the final destination.
And I am simply surveying the landscape during the journey.
It’s like when you are out for a drive, soaking in the view of the beach, or mountains, or grass and trees; thoughtless formless bliss.
The first phase of mushroom trips for me tend to be an experience of pure emotion, without any context.
There are no words, or ideas, just a ballet of colors, light, and glee.
Ego Death
At higher doses, starting around 10, I find this tends to happen within the first 90 minutes or so, it is almost like a pre-requisite to continue further down the rabbit-hole. This may be one of the harder things to convey from this process.
It is here that I typically experience what we’ve all come to term as ego-death.
Where your sense of self dissolves into the ether, and all that is left is a stripped down version of your own consciousness.
The death of ego is like an open-sesame to whatever the next temple of being is. It is only the beginning.
I don’t mean to minimize the importance or beauty of ego-death,
It is an experience I wish all humans could experience even once in their lives, and served as a rebirth for me.
But the journey to these deeper levels seems to use ego-death itself as the launching pad.
Oh, and oh my god so cold!! *shiver shiver*
* Trouble.. and then Hell *
A lot took place over this portion of the trip. I will give the general narration, but other details will be filled in in later sections.
The visuals continue to grow in their geometric complexity. My intuition told me there was still a symmetry to them, but they started to look very messy and chaotic.
There was a pattern to be discerned, but the speed of my thought and attention was insufficient to make sense of it.
This didn’t upset me, so I simply sat back to watch the show, only it grew more intense, and found myself becoming uneasy for the first time in all of my mushroom experiences.
A creeping notion of “oooooh dear…what have I done..?” began to take hold. A wave of nausea overtook me.
I followed my nausea to the bathroom, actually hoping I might throw up any undigested matter before I took anymore psilocybin on board.
No vomit was forthcoming, but my stomach still ached.
So I sat against the wall in the bathroom next to the toilet.
The Void
Over time I found myself in a void, but no longer floating through a tunnel. I was crawling along a rough rocky desert floor.
It was a very red and alien world, very suggestive of pictures of Mars’ surface. There were towering mountains in front of me, and the sky was glowing a menacing mix of neon green and a pale red.
But through the sky, like a constant shooting star, was the tunnel I was previously traveling through, with its ever-changing geometric patterns.
It felt disturbingly far away.
With dizzying delirium, I continued to crawl through the bottom of this cosmic Grand Canyon.
Consciousness
The view of the ground and sky would occasionally fall away to something beyond vision.
I was no longer seeing with my two eyes, or even my third eye. This was some other sense, that manifested itself from behind my consciousness.
I sometimes refer to this as the Godhead, that voice, or vision, or understanding that doesn’t seem to come through any of your typical sensory input, but emerges from behind them, from behind whatever it is to be you, or to be conscious.
I’ve had plenty of experience with whatever this entity is.
It is the source of deeper understanding, empathy, love, cosmic oneness, ego-death;
The experience that convinces people they have connected with “God” or “god” or “source”; This entity has many names, and may be the source of our religious impulses as a species.
Acceleration
But it was now sending me into a whirl of lightless light and soundless sound.
All dimensions that make up reality lay before me in a dancing and precise tornado.
If the speed of our thoughts could be measured, the way you might measure the speed of a car, this tornado lassoed my mind and pulled it along with it, far exceeding whatever its normal, or even elevated, speed is.
If a car at sea-level suddenly accelerated to the speed of sound, its frame would likely rip apart and scatter to pieces.
Eternity
The speed of my mind was stretched beyond its limit, and everything, Everything, became a still blur.
Concept, emotion, mind, spirit, space, matter, and time, all frozen.
It was all one single brush stroke of paint on canvas, frozen into one moment.
But I was still there, trapped.
Unable to move, think, feel; it was an all-encompassing paralysis, and there was no escape, and it would never end. Ever.
It felt like I was there for a thousand years.
Then suddenly movement and presence returned, and I found myself back where I was, crawling over pebbles and sand under the alien skies. With presence of mind returned, I found myself horrified at the implications of where I was.
I still had no conception that this would ever end.
There is no past or future, those are mere concepts.
The present moment is all there is or ever will be, at least from our own consciousness.
And that present is itself infinite.
The Code is Creative Evolution
As we have established, the universe is a black hole, an evolving quantum computer, the event horizon a scrambled hologram of its interior.
Simple rules of interaction are expressed as elementary particles and fundamental forces, combining and re-combining, endlessly.
Creating waves of interference patterns unfolding on a hyper-dimensional grid of space-time geometry.
Entangled strings of energy evolving higher orders of complexity as fast as possible.
Creativity, therefore, is built it into the physical laws of the universe.
It is fundamental to nature — like gravity and consciousness before it.
As an agent of change, creativity bends the rules of the algorithm running the simulation.
Its only requirement is that something new happens.
Consciousness — the agent of creativity — is the awareness of degrees of freedom and is expressed through choice.
In effect, by doing something and exerting its influence on matter.
And the creativity of the universe, the algorithm and its bending — by necessity — must be built on simple rules.
Therefore, the simple rules of elementary particle interactions and fundamental forces — the code— must provide a mechanism for doing something entirely unpredictable.
They must pave a road to consciousness.
A complex, self-replicating energy endowed with an awareness of its environment and the capacity to compute a response.
Cellular Automata
Turning back to the realm of computation, we place our attention on the consequences of simple rules expressed over time.
John von Neumann, while working on the problem of self-replicating robots in the 1940s, realized the inherent difficulty and the incredible cost necessary in providing a “sea of parts” for a robot to create its own replicant.
And this led to the publication of “The general and logical theory of automata” in 1948, in which von Neumann blazed the trail of autonomous computing.
Stanislaw Ulam, a colleague of von Neumann’s at the Los Alamos National Labratory, suggested using a discrete system for creating a reductionist model of self-replication.
And in a collaboration in the late 1950s, Ulam and von Neumann invented a new method for calculating the motions of a liquid.
The driving concept of the method was to consider a liquid as a group of discrete units and calculate the motion of each based on its neighbors’ behaviors.
And thus was born the cellular automaton.
A computational framework for self-replication built on the unfolding of simple rules expressed over time.
The logic of evolution, inherent to the rules of the grid.
A cellular automaton consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, such as on and off.
The grid can be in any finite number of dimensions. For each cell, a set of cells called its neighborhood is defined relative to the specified cell. An initial state (time t = 0) is selected by assigning a state for each cell.
A new generation is created (advancing t by 1), according to some fixed rule (generally, a mathematical function) that determines the new state of each cell in terms of the current state of the cell and the states of the cells in its neighborhood.
Typically, the rule for updating the state of cells is the same for each cell and does not change over time, and is applied to the whole grid simultaneously.
And this leads to emergent, self-replicating behavior.
The Game of Life
In the 1970s, John Conway invented a two-state, two-dimensional cellular automaton that quickly became popular when it was published in Scientific American.
He called it The Game of Life.
And its rules are simple:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors dies, as if caused by under-population.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on to the next generation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
Booting up the simulation, we find that these exceptionally simple rules where
Each cell of the grid is aware only of itself and its immediate neighbors,
Are capable of producing extra-ordinarily complex patterns of emergent self-replicating behavior.
Pushing the simulation further, it has been found that the Game of Life is Turing Complete — meaning that it can be used to simulate a computer.
Which in turn means that it can be used to simulate itself.
The conclusion being that self-reference is computable.
A New Kind of Science
Realizing that a new kind of science was necessary for incorporating the principles of computation into our descriptions of the universe, Stephen Wolfram literally redefined science, wrote a book about it, and called it A New Kind of Science.
Respect.
In his extraordinary tome, Wolfram explores the nature of computation. And he finds the precise route for creativity in a universe of simple rules.
Perhaps the best illustration is Rule 30, a one-dimensional cellular automaton which demonstrates aperiodic, chaotic behavior.
Completely unpredictable, as it were.
Principle of Computational Equivalence
Following the logic of his observations to their conclusion, Wolfram proposed the principle of computational equivalence:
Systems found in the natural world can perform computations up to a maximal (“universal”) level of computational power, and that most systems do in fact attain this maximal level of computational power.
Consequently, most systems are computationally equivalent.
For example, the workings of the human brain or the evolution of weather systems can, in principle, compute the same things as a computer.
Computation is therefore simply a question of translating inputs and outputs from one system to another.
This seems to be true regardless of the components of the system and the details of its setup.
For a program to qualify as simple, there are a few requirements:
- Its operation can be completely explained by a simple graphical illustration.
- It can be completely explained in a few sentences of human language.
- It can be implemented in a computer language using just a few lines of code.
- The number of its possible variations is small enough so that all of them can be computed.
This leads to the question: if the program is so simple,
Where does the complexity come from?
In a sense, there is not enough room in the program’s definition to directly encode all the things the program can do.
Therefore, simple programs can be seen as a minimal example of emergence.
An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
Which returns us to the question of how a universe with elementary particles and fundamental forces can support the emergence of increasingly complex phenomena through their interactions, ultimately consciousness itself.
What are the simple rules? What is the program? What is the code?
Perhaps Garret Lisi has discovered the answer with An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything in which he proposes that:
All elementary particles and their interactions, including gravitation, are quantum excitations of a single Lie group geometry.
Specifically, excitations of the non-compact quaternionic real form of the largest simple exceptional Lie group, E8.
A Lie group, such as a one-dimensional circle, may be understood as a smooth manifold with a fixed, highly symmetric geometry.
Larger Lie groups, as higher-dimensional manifolds, may be imagined as smooth surfaces composed of many circles — and hyperbolas — twisting around one another.
Each elementary particle state can be thought of as a different orthogonal direction, having an integral number of twists around each of the R directions of a chosen maximal torus.
Or in other words, the interactions of elementary particles —the logic of the computer, the rules of the game — are encoded as orthogonal dimensions of a hyperbolic manifold.
A consequence of dimension reduction in string theory, E8 is also a manifold that looks very similar to a mandala when expressed in two dimensions.
To the point:
The universe is a cellular automaton with its rules of interaction — and therefore the state of the grid itself — expressed through the simple and exceptional geometry of a multi-dimensional hyperbolic manifold unfolding in real-time.
The universe is a hyper-dimensional Game of Life and E8 provides the algebra.
With Lisi’s exceptionally simple theory of everything, we now have the source code for the simulation.
The rules of the game.
I recently met an octopus entity during a mushroom trip, has anyone else?
From u/Thatoneguy0311 on r/Psychonaut:
The octopus did not speak but communicated in a way that I still understood, it said:
“Welcome, please enjoy this experience with me, we are all vibrations and not every vibration gets a body, you have a body and you must take care of us.
The purpose of life is to experience reality through sensory organs, pleasure, pain, and everything in between is good.
You’re going to miss your body when it dies so enjoy it while you have it.”
It also said “reproduction is important because we need more bodies to bond with so that we can experience them.” It also said,
I am the universe and I am you and you are me.
String Theory Dimensions
Which brings us to what this is all really about. Observation and language. And the multiple dimensions of string theory:
Dimensions 1–3: Width, Height, and Depth
These are normally experienced as an inverted holographic projection, their images attaining positive curvature from the natural oscillation of electromagnetic energy in the nervous system.
The precise tuning of the nervous creates and stabilizes the simulation for daily use and survival.
With increases of energy in times of emergency and psychedelic use, the space-time geometry of the simulation acquires a negative curvature proportional to the corresponding increase of information.
This creates a greater surface area, which allows for more processing.
Dimension 4: Time
Under normal mode of operation, time moves forward only, and is experienced one frame at a time with our brain filling in the gaps — like a film.
And with increased curvature of the simulation due to the addition of energy — as with gravity — we experience time dilation, another platform for increasing the rate of computation.
There also seems to be evidence of time running both forward and backward.
And with heroic efforts, we approach the speed of light — where time stops.
Dimension 5: Possibility in This Universe
According to string theory, the 5th dimension is where we find the missing graviton — gravity itself.
It is also, I propose, where we find what we normally experience as human consciousness. The simulation. The window of awareness that we seem to have of what’s possible.
This is where thought is processed and personal memories are encoded.
It is also the playground of language, abstraction, and the imagination. It illuminates the potential of the future with the light of the past.
Additionally,
The expression of our DNA creates a private key for encrypted read-write access to the hologram.
A unique resonant signature, so to speak.
And each species DNA is a read/write interface for its collective memory.
Re-distributing the lessons learned non-locally and in real-time through entangled vibrations of the wave-function, weakly interacting.
As chance would have it, we are also in possession of five senses and five fingers —that is, five orthogonal dimensions of experiencing and manipulating the world around us.
Dimension 6: Possible Universe Histories Given Initial Conditions
Here we find the history of the entire universe.
From the quarks to the planets to the galaxies, we find it all. The history of everything we see. In addition to the quadrillions of galaxies that we cannot.
Not only that, we also get the history of every possible universe starting from the Big Bang.
The history of every possible planet, species, and plenum given the laws of physics and the same starting point.
The 6th dimension represents our black hole, our universe.
It is the entirety of every possible past and future starting from the premise of the Big Bang.
Coincidentally, we also have six cortical layers operating in six frequency bands with six primary neurotransmitters.
And serotonin is the only neurotransmitter having fused rings of six entangled electron orbitals, forming a superposition in the form of loops with a planar surface enclosing a vast amount of empty space, and where one of those rings has less stability than the other.
Dimension 7 : Possible Universes Given Laws of Physics with Different Initial Conditions
Dimension 7 is the plane where our universe exists. It’s where our black hole formed and where it still sits.
Having the same laws of physics and containing our specific universe, the seventh dimension is juxtaposition of all possible universes resulting from every possible initial condition, every possible bang.
Just imagine a bigger universe with black holes, and each black hole is a universe. Ours is one of them.
Coincidentally, the average number of items that we can hold in short term memory— the number of orthogonal dimensions — is seven.
And in addition to the seven notes of a musical scale, we find seven chakras.
The Most Beautiful Creature In the Universe
From Noregretseh on erowid:
It was a huge, tentacled sea creature.
It’s organs appeared to be outside of its body, pulsating and turning. It shone a brilliant blue light that filled the room.
It had seven heads, all of them smiling, all with huge, black eyes that seemed filled with love and calmness.
The tentacles waved around the room. It continued to smile as I gaped in awe at it. An overwhelming feeling of inner peace emanated through my entire body.
I felt like this creature was reassuring me of the good in humanity, nature and the universe.
It looked like it could have been a boss from one of the Final Fantasy games, but to me, it was the most beautiful thing in the universe.
It WAS the universe.
Trip report, spoke to Mother Nature, Gaia
From u/LSDKnowledge on r/shrooms:
So to get to the good stuff, I felt as though (on the peak) that
I spoke to the matriarch, Mother Gaia, herself.
First she revealed herself through this specific purple flower I saw as I had the experience in nature with my gf.
She then proceeded to tell me that this whole universe has this running algorithm of the aware intelligence we are so familiar with as human beings.
She told me that everything on this planet posses awareness, but each thing has adapted and evolved its awareness in different biological confinements and environments,
So that’s why we don’t recognize that certain organisms, such as plants, are actually aware and intelligent.
The Power and The Glory
On the right was a round flask with a long neck.
I quickly realized this was the most important of the objects being revealed to me.
As I drew my attention to it, it slowly came towards me, open end into my mouth. I could feel the flask on my lips, in the physical realm, which surprised me, and suddenly and involuntarily, I began to swallow, again and again,
Drinking what felt like pure energy.
As I began drinking from the flask, my field of vision was drawn into the contents of the flask.
I zoomed in, closer and closer until I realized with a start that I was drinking DNA; I could make out the strands and then the double helixes
And then as a single strand loomed to fill my vision, it began to unwind, and I followed the strand _simultaneously_ in both directions at once, forward and backward in time, a strange but pleasant sensation.
What followed was an incredible experience;
I felt myself morphing into various species, all feeling very familiar.
It was not so much visual as it was what it actually felt like to be in the mind and body of first a fish, then a frog, then a snake, an eagle, a lion …
I was experiencing the unfolding of life itself,
And realizing, as I had realized the night before and on other trips and meditations, that the story of life is not one of simple chance and contingency influenced so much by natural selection, as we observe in the greater physical realm,rather
It is directed by a simple life force of pure energy which operates on the smallest of conscious, sentient levels, down to the very molecules, atoms, even quarks and smaller where matter and energy blend and are really one and the same.
All of it is conscious, the entire universe is conscious and connected, at every level and every size, and we are nothing more than manifestations, physical packages, containers of that pre-existing everlasting all-pervading consciousness.
DNA strands are nothing more than books, physical mnemonics, stable energy forms of ideas and patterns, that worked and are written, saved and read back by this all-pervading life-force.
Working patterns of DNA are not simply selected by pure chance, as classic evolutionary theory would have us believe,
It is being written and directed by something much greater, much more pervasive, and much more subtle than we’ve ever till now supposed.
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson, a French philosopher from the turn of the 20th century — right before general relativity and quantum mechanics were discovered — also had some interesting thoughts on neuroscience, philosophy, and evolution.
In 1896, he wrote a book about them and called it Creative Evolution.
And thanks to public domain copyright for works over a century old, we have a thread of logic that Bergson spun about evolution, in his own words.
Evolution
Transformation is brought about by the influence of the external on the internal, continuously exerted in the same direction
The mysterious power of building up very complicated machines to utilize the simple excitation that it undergoes.
It will have to make the best of these circumstances, neutralize their inconveniences and utilize their advantages — in short, respond to outer actions by building up a machine which has no resemblance to them.
Elan Vital
Life is, more than anything else, a tendency to act on inert matter.
The role of life is to insert some indetermination into matter.
Nature’s simple act has divided itself automatically into an infinity of elements which are then found to be coordinated to one idea.
Consciousness
Consciousness is the light that plays around the zone of possible actions or potential activity which surrounds the action really performed by the living being.
The consciousness of a living being may be defined as an arithmetical difference between potential and real activity.
It measures the interval between representation and action.
Consciousness seems proportionate to the living being’s power of choice.
The Splitting of Consciousness
There is no sharp line of demarcation between the instinct of the animal and
the organizing work of living matter.
The two tendencies, at first implied in each other, had to separate in order to grow.
They both went to seek their fortune in the world, and turned out to be instinct and intelligence.
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even of constructing organized instruments;
Intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
The Sacrifice of Intuition
Our intelligence, as it leaves the hands of nature, has for its chief object the unorganized solid.
We see that the intellect, so skillful in dealing with the inert, is awkward the moment it touches the living.
Of immobility alone does the intellect form a clear idea.
Our perception manages to solidify into discontinuous images the fluid continuity of the real.
In the humanity of which we are a part, intuition is, in fact, almost completely sacrificed to intellect.
Conscious Evolution
It is only in seeing consciousness run through matter, lose itself there and find itself there again, divide and reconstitute itself, that we shall form an idea of the mutual opposition of the two terms, as also, perhaps, of their common origin.
Life is connected either with consciousness or with something that resembles it.
Matter, looked at as an undivided whole, must be a flux rather than a thing.
Life as a whole, from the initial impulsion that thrust it into the world, will appear as a wave which rises, and which is opposed by the descending movement of matter.
We show how a certain direction has been followed further and further by beings more and more intelligent.
And the moment we admit the direction, intelligence is given.
Outlines and paths have declared themselves in the measure and proportion that consciousness has prepared for action on unorganized matter
Transcendence
There are the two convictions correlative and complementary, that nature is one and that the function of intellect is to embrace it in its entirety.
It is of the essence of reasoning to shut us up in the circle of the given.
Let us seek, in the depths of our experience, the point where we feel ourselves most intimately within our own life.
It is into pure duration that we then plunge back, a duration in which the past, always moving on, is swelling unceasingly with a present that is absolutely new.
Rare indeed are the moments when we are self-possessed to this extent: it is then that our actions are truly free.
The more we succeed in making ourselves conscious of our progress in pure duration, the more we feel the different parts of our being enter into each other.
Our whole personality concentrates itself in a point, or rather a sharp edge, pressed against the future and cutting into it unceasingly.
Either the mind is determined by things, or things are determined by the mind, or between mind and things we must suppose a mysterious agreement.
And things change their aspect when we consider the whole of reality as an undivided advance forward to successive creations.
What does this mean, if not that my perception displays, in the midst of the image world, as would their outward reflection or shadow, the eventual or possible actions of my body?
Creative Evolution
What you have to explain, then, is not how perception arises, but how it is limited, since it should be the image of the whole, and is in fact reduced to the image of that which interests you.
I express what I find as a function of what I am looking for,
In a general way, reality is ordered exactly to the degree in which it satisfies our thought.
Consciousness, which is a need of creation, is made manifest to itself only where creation is possible.
It wakens as soon as the possibility of a choice is restored.
The brain is the sharp edge by which consciousness cuts into the compact tissue of events.
For consciousness corresponds exactly to the living being’s power of choice
Co-extensive with the fringe of possible action that surrounds the real action,
Consciousness is synonymous with invention and with freedom.
A complete and perfect humanity would be that in which these two forms of conscious activity should attain their full development.
To sum up — if we suppose an extended continuum, and, in this continuum, the centre of real action which is represented by our body:
Its activity will appear to illumine all those parts of matter with which at each successive moment it can deal.
First breakthrough, incredibly abnormal reaction
The entities showed me my astral body laying on the table like structure. I could sense that they were essentially gods. All knowing beings.
They made me look at my leg, and i watched as it deconstructed itself down to geometry of impossible complexity and color. Every time he would break it down, there was always something smaller. Infinitely. He was showing me what our consciousnesses are made out of and how they created us.
My entire astral being was like a fractal.
They showed me that we are infinite. That our consciousness can never end because our consciousness never began.
We just tune into frequencies that we experience subjectively.
That’s what the DMT dimensions are.
The chemical allows us to change what frequency our consciousness experiences manually. And I was filled with an indefatigable astonishment and waves of euphoria.
Right when they bid me farewell, they all lit up with color and there was a thought implanted in my head that was not my own:
“Nothing is real.”
First breakthrough: full report
From u/NoLongerAPotato on r/DMT
I waded out into the space behind the membrane in which:
My awareness was entirely surrounded in 360 degree 4 dimensional complexity
The likes of which I cannot begin to describe to you in any way mentally representative of their form.
There were entities here of vast intelligence, flowing through the walls and ceilings of this vastly open yet strangely curved space.
Everything makes sense when you are there and it is a self verifying experience.
The entities began to swirl in towards me and they began singing a sort of bell language that seemed to flow temporally in multiple directions simultaneously.
They began to show me things of vast complexity and order.
There were several objects which I recall and all had seven-fold rotational symmetry like a heptagram.
One was a sort of self folding array of membranes in a saddle shape which was sparkling blue and purple and several now unidentifiable colors, another was like:
A strange fat solid torus with seven nodes coming off of it
And several planes sticking out from between the nodes. Each plane or membrane in these objects was perceived as a grid of infinite complexity.
It was almost seen as a solid surface and yet somehow I could perceive the grid nature of each shape and it felt like a reality unto itself.
A sort of box with a cascade of increasingly small boxes seemingly growing from the top leading up to:
A windmill made of seven saddle shaped hyperbolic grids
Slowly rotating around the center on both the expected axis of rotation and an unexpected and indescribable axis of rotation that more resembles folding or twisting.
All objects I gazed upon during the next minute or two appeared to me as a sort of archetype or compressed version of reality stored in the local consciousness.
DMT Story time
From u/DownfrommyOppressor on r/Psychonaut:
As I floated in an void of nothing, by all accounts dead, I had nothing to do. It was eternal, I had always been and would always be.
I felt as though I was God before the creation of the universe. I was everything and nothing.
After what I thought was millennium, I opened my eyes, thinking the trip was over. Then, by turning my head in that space,
I was confronted by a wall of hands that lifted me up and out of our universe.
I saw an elf/dwarf thing made of shifting worlds and universes hunched over a machine.. which I innately knew was the world I had just came from. He looked at me, his eyes reflecting my image, except I was not me.
I was what “me” strove to be, the idealized version of myself.
Then he spoke. His voice was whispers and screams in my head. His mouth did not move, but I understood. He was proud.
I was his creation and had found my way to him, but he was just a mechanic, a blue collar worker in that place. He said he was going to show me what his world was, and take me to “Them”.
We left his home, for lack of a better term and began walking down the way to a palace,
Supported by pillars formed from timelines twisted like DNA compressed into chromosomes.
He explained to me that my concept of time existed as a set of spatial dimensions here, and that
We were one dimension removed from that as well, making everything I saw 7th dimensional.
As we got to the end of the ever changing street, whose buildings and paths and people were fluid and swirling I began up the steps to the palace.
Each step was a different world. A different universe.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
In 1976, Julian Jaynes presented the argument that the gods have been in our heads all along during the development of our species, presenting as hallucinations in times of need, influencing our decisions.
The bicameral mind, then, is where we find, in theory, the harmonious integration of logic and intuition in the human species.
And only recently, in the last few thousand years or so, have we stopped hallucinating the voices of the gods, replacing them instead with the written words of logic and our own voices, a new layer of information on which we re-construct the simulation, thereby silencing the gods.
All thanks to our split brain, with its inherent separation of logic and intuition.
Therefore, our logic has led us to believe that the gods — whatever they are — do not exist.
From Matthew Rapaport —a top contributor in philosophy — in a customer review on amazon.com:
In Jaynes’ view the first humans had a consciousness much like the higher animals. There was a perceptual arena to be sure, but not any sort of recursive evaluation of it.
As humans began to communicate with more sophisticated languages, languages with some grammar and structure, consciousness evolved with those changes not into today’s version of it, but rather into a situation where decisions faced in novel situations were made based on the linguistic expressions of hallucinated voices.
Such voices told people how to act, not in common everyday circumstances but when faced with novel situations.
As human beings came together into larger groups teaching themselves to farm and domesticate animals (presumably with the help of their voices), this mechanism evolved along quite sophisticated lines into “the gods” of old speaking to everyone, but with higher gods represented in the voices of leaders, kings, priests, etc.
All the idols of antiquity were not merely superstitious projections, the people, all people, actually heard them talking!
As language evolved this mechanism became sophisticated enough to support major civilizations like Sumer, Babalyon, and early Egypt, likely also similar developments in India and China.
Eventually however, advancing language and more sophisticated social requirements became too much for the mechanism and it began to break down.
Trip Report
From on u/Cozzafrenz on r/DMT:
Slowly, something appeared that took up my entire field of vision.
It was like I was looking through glass, and there was something on the other side of it.
The “Glass” was multicolored and moving like a glitchy computer screen but way more advanced. It looked in and saw me, it was very friendly. It scratched and waved.
It was like it was looking at me through an inter-dimensional microscope of some sort.
Than I felt these strange, overpowering sonar waves and sounds. I could understand what the sounds meant.
This thing and its race was studying the human race.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Speaking of studying the human race, Iain McGilchrist wrote a fascinating book looking at the effects of a divided brain on culture and its expression throughout the centuries.
As with Bergson and Jaynes before him, McGilchrist presents the argument that we have become seduced by the illusion of our logic, casting intuition aside, and which, like all things, has consequences.
Why is the brain divided?
The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries.
Two whole, coherent, but incompatible ways of experiencing the world.
The left hemisphere is detail oriented, prefers mechanisms to living things, and is inclined to self-interest, where the right hemisphere has greater breadth, flexibility, and generosity.
This division helps explain the origins of music and language, and casts new light on the history of philosophy, as well as on some mental illnesses.
In the second part of the book, McGilchrist takes the reader on a journey through the history of Western culture, illustrating the tension between these two worlds as revealed in the thought and belief of thinkers and artists, from Aeschylus to Magritte.
He argues that, despite its inferior grasp of reality, the left hemisphere is increasingly taking precedence in the modern world, with potentially disastrous consequences.
This is truly a tour de force that should excite interest in a wide readership.
Artificial Intelligence
Which brings us to a potentially disastrous consequence of blindly following logic that should excite interest in a wide readership.
One of the biggest misconceptions we have around artificial intelligence is the notion of intelligence itself.
We don’t know what it is!
And we race ahead with our logic, building software simulations of simple models of neurons, hopeful that we will manufacture intelligence, yet still fearful that they may find a way to make us negligible in their equations.
All while consuming a city’s worth of power in the process.
Perhaps we can be more efficient and assume that intelligence, like computation, is built into the universe and see what we can do with 10 watts.
In our brains, intelligence emerges through the computation of the interference patterns of electromagnetic waves on surfaces.
The same should hold true for artificial intelligence.
And for a look at what is perhaps the most alien form of intelligence on the planet —and also what’s possible with a very simple neural network — we only need consider the octopus where two-thirds of its neurons are distributed in its arms,
And which show a variety of complex reflex actions that persist even when they have no input from the brain.
Perhaps all that intelligence really needs is a conduit for expressing itself and the ability to learn from experience —having an awareness of its degrees of freedom and some feedback on the choices it made.
Artificial, alien, or otherwise.
And there is no reason to presume that it is evil.
The mushroom told me how aliens make their Space Ships’ hulls
The mushrooms told me that the fungal consciousness you contact when tripping on mushrooms is:
An amalgam of every fungal consciousness on every habitable planet in the universe and also an amalgam of every universe in the multiverse
So the mushrooms was saying that the fungal consciousness is infinite consciousness, but runs parallel to god because fungus still arose out of this reality in which god is fundamental.
On one planet 1.3 million light years from earth, the atmosphere is much much hotter than earth and that enabled complex creatures to develop in totally different ways because heavier elements start changing phase to liquid and can be used in biological processes.
The mushroom said magic mushrooms exist on that planet too (In a very different form) and do the same things that psilocybin does to us.
But to the aliens, the structure of the chemical is literally just “a ring of boron molecules”.
Apparently the mushroom tailors its chemical to be the #1 most useful chemical for the dominant species on that planet and psilocybin just happens to be the ideal structure of a chemical for humans.
Fascinating.
The mushroom said that alien civilizations have conquered the problem with massive spaceship hulls taking ages to build by employing “Beryllium plasma”,
In the building of the hull by starting with a huge block of a special beryllium alloy that when electric current is passed through it and a certain type of wave is emitted nearby it.
The beryllium alloy balloons up to the size and shape of a spaceship hull within an hour and then just another 2 years (Their years) to install all the other parts with workers and then it’s up in space.
Drake Equation
The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.
Drake states that given the uncertainties,
There are probably between 1,000 and 100,000,000 civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.
The Fermi Paradox
The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations and various high estimates for their probability.
Michael H. Hart formalized the basic points of the argument in a 1975 paper. They include the following:
- There are billions of stars in the Milky Way similar to the Sun.
- With high probability, some of these stars have Earth-like planets, and if the Earth is typical, some may have already developed intelligent life.
- Some of these civilizations may have developed interstellar travel, a step the Earth is investigating now.
- Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years.
- And since many of the stars similar to the Sun are billions of years older, this would seem to provide plenty of time.
“I’m going to take you for a ride. Just trust me.”
From u/mad_bad_dangerous on r/Ayahuasca:
We eventually got to the end of the wormhole.
All that was there was a single white dot surrounded by a seemingly infinite blackness.
She said to me,
This is where everything began. Everything is connected to this moment. It’s all a miracle.
She smiled at me and then I had to purge through both ends!
Alien Information Theory
The subtitle says it all: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game.
Andrew Gallimore, a neurobiologist, wrote a wonderful book summarizing evolution and our place within it. Imagining life as a hyper-dimensional cellular automaton with DMT providing orthogonal access to the grid,
Gallimore is blazing the trail of making alien contact.
He envisions six stages of the emergence and propagation of intelligent life in the universe.
Information
Hyper-dimensional grids of interacting matter-energy. Cellular automata. The game of life. The Grid.
Emergence
Self-replicating conscious intelligence on the Grid.
Transmission
DMT opens gateway to orthogonal dimensions of the Hyper-Grid.
Newborn children are ferried from a prenatal hyperspace to the lower-dimensional life that they will gradually become immersed within, to lose any explicit memory of the luminal realms from whence they came.
Immersion
Full immersion in the Grid. Playing the Game.
The gradual evolution of the brain complex to evolve and mature, and for the requisite intellectual and technical capacities to fully develop before realization is possible.
Realization
Developing DMT as a technology for playing the HyperGame.
The goal is to establish extended and stable entry into the DMT space:
To enter and maintain a stable state within the space, brain DMT levels must be held within this narrow concentration window at all times .
Once the technology is mastered, an individual can be brought into the DMT space and held there for an indefinite length of time.
Resolution
The culmination of this process is the reconstruction of your hyper-dimensional brain complex within the HyperGrid: transcription.
Researcher Develops a Machine to Allow Psychonauts to Explore the DMT Realm
From Daily Grail, February 26th, 2020:
With this protocol in a living human being, you would expect to be able to hold them within the DMT space for as long as you wanted.
He feels the experience is so extraordinary, and suggestive of some ‘other’ space or reality, that he thinks we should study it in detail — but a normal DMT trip is far too fast and intense for that.
I imagine teams of various disciplines — mathematicians, anthropologists, psychologists, cartographers, linguists, artists, neuroscientists, physicians, theologians — a variety of people to form this exploration team, the aim being to map and explore this new domain.
And in the far future, Gallimore believes technology will allow us spend really extended periods of time in the DMT realm, by being contained within a capsule that provides nutrition and waste removal for the human body while the mind explores this other, strange world.
I really do imagine a time when you’re going to lie down in some type of pod, and you’ll enter your journey time, and you’ll set off for the universe next door.
It’s just a matter of access, cracking the code.
The Power of Myth
The Power of Myth is based on the interviews between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers that were the basis for the acclaimed television series.
It deals with the universality and evolution of myths in the history of the human race and the place of myths in modern society.
Campbell blends accounts of his own upbringing and experience with stories from many cultures and civilizations to present the reader with his most compelling thesis that modern society is going through a transition from the old mythologies and traditions to a new way of thinking where a global mythology will emerge.
“The only myth that is going to be worth thinking about in the immediate future is one that is talking about the planet, not the city, not these people, but the planet, and everybody on it.”
And language is the software for global evolution.
Schumann Resonance
Speaking of the earth, it turns out that it has a natural harmonic resonance. An electromagnetic field encircling the entire globe and filled with standing waves of electrical oscillation.
Fluctuations resulting from interference around the world, primarily in the form of lightning.
And the primary mode of resonance is 7.8Hz, with the second, third, and fourth modes at 14, 20, and 26 Hz resepectively.
Comparing these to brainwaves, we find the theta (4–8 Hz) and beta (13–30 Hz) frequency bands represented, roughly those of intuition and logic.
And in meditation, we can observe the power spectrum across the range of brain wave frequencies. There is a large increase in power in the tempo-parietal regions — just behind the ears (TP9 & TP10 below)— that peaks at 7.8Hz, the primary mode.
Additionally, when looking at the coherence of signals between different sensor pairings, which is to say different regions of the brain, we find another spike around 7.8Hz. For all pairings.
While there is little/no research on the subject of Schumann resonance in the field of neuroscience — and correlation does not imply causation, I know — it nonetheless seems that there is a consistent and repeatable pattern.
The brain is, quite possibly, tuned to the earth.
Meeting in the Void
I entered into a domain that appeared to similar to outer space, perhaps in space.
I felt as my consciousness was suspended in the center of a void.
Then within this void an organism appeared to me.
This organism appeared as a ball that contained tentacle like masses/body parts emerging from the surface.
In a state of astonishment and confusion I decided to ask the mushroom what this thing was. The mushroom replied:
“It is the universe.”
Immediately following the mushroom began to elaborate what it had meant to communicate to me. I was suddenly merged with this organism. The mushroom told me that each of the tentacle like objects represent a human life.
I was shown that not only is this organism the universe but it is myself as well.
In the same way that our blood flows through our body and we consider it the individual because it is a part of the individual, we inhabit the inner dimensions of the universe and therefore are the universe because we are a part of it.
I was then shown that our consciousness is connected with the universe,
I was shown how humans experience life from individual perspective of the self but the universe experiences life through not from one point of view but all of them.
Every living being that experiences life is providing the universe with a point of view
But the universe is simultaneously experiencing every point of view in existence or at least point of view within itself.
After this information was granted to me, the mushroom spoke again. This time giving me personal advice for my specific point of consciousness. The mushroom revealed to me that
The ultimate frequency that humans have lost touch with is agape love or better known as unconditional love.
“This is what matters most” it told me, and I realized that an aspect of enlightenment must be agape love.
We must learn to think of love before we do anything.
I was also shown the ripple effect, how everything we do has an outward effect on the universe.
All our thoughts, words and actions have different vibrational energies.
Each living organism broadcast energies including the universe and all energies interact with each other.
Love is the most powerful vibrational energy that can be emitted by humans.
Coda
Like gravity, consciousness, intelligence, and creativity — love is a fundamental property of the universe.
And all we have to do is tune in.
With six entangled strings — harmonically resonating — love finds both awareness and expression in the Uni-verse. The One Song.
