Writing about consciousness, practice and sensory technology that tries to be useful rather than persuasive. Fewer pieces, each worth reading.
Consciousness
6 min read
One of the strangest states most people pass through twice a day without noticing.
Hypnagogia is the transitional state between waking and sleep, and one of the most ordinary examples of non-ordinary consciousness in human life.
Experience Technology
7 min read
The light is not a picture. What you see is made by your own visual system.
An explanation of why rhythmic light perceived through closed eyelids produces color and geometry, what varies between people, and what remains uncertain.
Experience Technology
6 min read
A real perceptual effect, surrounded by claims the evidence does not carry.
What binaural beats actually are, why the internet overstates them, and how carefully designed audio is used honestly in guided experiences.
Experience and Integration
8 min read
Preparation, the experience itself, and the part most people underestimate.
A practical account of how a guided substance-free experience is structured, what varies between people, and how to approach it without demanding a result.
A long-form introduction to altered states of consciousness, why altered does not mean intoxicated, and how practices and technologies change subjective experience.
Where the phrase comes from, what it does and does not describe, and why we do not claim to reproduce a drug experience.
These pieces are being written rather than published thin. They are grouped the way the library will eventually be organized.
Consciousness
Human Practices
Experience Technology
Experience and Integration