Tag: philosophy
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Introduction to Gravitational Annealing
A forthcoming theoretical paper “The Weightless Mind and Liberation: Vasocomputation, Graviception, and the Harmonic Architecture of Consciousness” (working title) frames gravity as not just a strong prior that sculpts vascular architecture and cytoskeletal form, but also as a constraint and metronome deeply encoded in tissue tension, subtly shaping our experience of weight, cellular architecture, and subjective experience.…
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When Scientists Forget What Shapes Them (A Crowdfunding Special)
This blog post is a crowdfunding special and a teaser for the upcoming collaborative paper on the harmonic architecture of consciousness. You can support the crowdfunding here. A Prelude In the annals of scientific history, few theories have been as simultaneously influential and controversial as Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic resonance. Introduced in his 1981 book “A…
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Beyond Hormones: Falling in Love as Gravitational Collapse
Imagine your body and brain constantly building a model of the world and your place in it. Besides coordinates, another important thing to know (and a bit harder to find, determine, or feel) is the sense of direction. The model I’m about to lay out relies on fundamental “reference frames”—Where am I in life and…
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Systems of Control vs. Psychedelics: The War on Remembering
In a world where substances like alcohol—known for their addictive potential, comfort through dissociation, neurotoxicity, liver and kidney damage, and social harm (e.g., increased rates of violence)—are not only legal but culturally celebrated, the continued criminalization of non-addictive, non-toxic psychedelic substances demands scrutiny. More than a policy oversight or bureaucratic inertia, this contradiction reveals something…
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What is More Real, Beauty or My Shoes? An Interview with Michael Edward Johnson
In September 2024, I traveled from Leipzig to Rome to interview Michael Edward Johnson, a theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher whose work on formalizing consciousness and neural annealing—alongside his cofounder Andrés Gómez-Emilsson—has been a crucial component in the creation of “The Good Annealing Manual: From Psychedelic Alchemy to the Chemistry of the Mind” (QRI, in press)…
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15. Gravity and Graviception During Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs)
Posted on 17 April 2024 by Beata Grobenski, grobenskibeata@gmail.com Are Frank Wilczek’s time crystals hinting at Plato’s Eternal Forms? To think about OBEs purely scientifically, I think we’ll first have to figure out what an “im-pression” is in the context of Qualia Formalism. We’re not there yet. Obviously, this is still pretty much just philosophy.…
Thoughts On Evolutions 