“It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, ‘Who are we?’”
— Erwin Schrödinger, the guy with the cat
Hermetic Spirituality: Removing the Glass Between Lovers, Human and Nature
“What we consider to be normal human consciousness is in fact an altered states of knowledge: a delusionary condition of mental alienation and profound confusion that makes it very hard for us to see reality as it actually is. Some of us may experience fleeting moments of enlightenment when the mental fog is momentarily lifted…
How William James Foreshadowed Neural Annealing
An excerpt from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), chapter Conversion (p176): “When I say ‘Soul,’ you need not take me in the ontological sense unless you prefer to; for although ontological language is instinctive in such matters, yet Buddhists or Humians can perfectly well describe the facts in the…
Rethinking the Epistemology of Archaeology
Or “The Ungrateful Bias of Reductive Materialist Ontology in Archaeology” This week I attended the ASSC 2025 conference in Heraklion, Greece which opened up an exciting opportunity to visit the Palace of Knossos and the National Archeological Museum. As much as Knossos is fascinating and appears to be an eternal riddle together with its symbolism,…
Hi! I’m Beata (she/they), a deeply curious Orphico-Pythagorean vibe realist actively working at the intersection of natural sciences, science fiction, philosophy, mental health, mysticism, and the arts. I seek connections across domains—physics to consciousness, psychiatry to mythology—a mind that wants coherence in the largest possible sense. Drawing on my personal experience with ontological shock and emergent phenomenology, my research aims to understand what love is and how we can tune ourselves to a more equanimous and compassionate key by working with our attention—a “Qualia tuner”.
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The Good Annealing Manual
“The Good Annealing Manual: From Psychedelic Alchemy to the Chemistry of the Mind” is my upcoming book, in press by the Californian Qualia Research Institute (www.qri.org). Inspired by the science of psychedelics, it is a rich energy management theory and practice aimed at facilitating emotional metabolism, improving stress dissipation and advancing our scientific understanding of consciousness physicalism through a relational field ontology.
The book focuses on understanding trauma as persisting bundles of dissonance that can become harmonized. Building upon neural annealing (Johnson 2019, Gómez Emilsson 2021), this is described through the lens of oscillatory dynamics, such as in Kuramoto model, and integrated within the music theory of consciousness. An early version of the framework was published here on the blog in 2023: Why Music Theory of Consciousness? Investigation of Qualia Formalism at the Implementation Level.
Presenting Good Annealing, QRI in Berlin (May 2024)
Thoughts On Evolutions
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