6 entries
Quantum minds & information realities
Proposals about what consciousness is, with their disagreements preserved.
Chapters
5 entries
John C Lilly & the human biocomputer
Metaprogramming, isolation tanks, ECCO and the solid-state entity.
8 entries
DMT, LSD & the machine elves
First-person descriptions, clinical reports and a survey of entity encounters.
6 entries
Remote viewing & intelligence research
SRI experiments, the Stargate record, and the unresolved dispute over what the results mean.
4 entries
The Telepathy Tapes & the Hill
Shared-channel accounts, reported spiritual meetings and the question of independent evidence.
4 entries
Astral projection and other planes
Occult maps, out-of-body accounts and an Army attempt to translate the territory into physics.
6 entries
Art at the edge of perception
Artworks and imagined worlds where perception, memory and invention meet.
4 entries
Random Music
Ink, burnt paper, found photographs and barcodes, turned into scores. Johnny Venables’ degree-show sketchbook, circa 1992.
Across the Cabinet
Strange overlaps reaching this collection
- Sarfatti, SRI and the same small circleHistorical connection
One person across several conversations: Sarfatti says he worked informally with Puthoff and Targ, and describes UFOs as conscious AI.
- Lilly’s machine organism meets post-biological aliensCurated parallel
A curated pairing: Lilly’s machine organism and Schneider’s post-biological civilisations both ask what happens when intelligence outgrows the organisms that made it.
- The strange persistence of symbolic communionCurated parallel
A curated parallel: McKenna’s entities engaged in visible linguistic activity beside Anthropic’s records of model conversations drifting toward spiritual language and silence.
- Received ideas, and the receiver’s own programmesCurated parallel
A curated pairing on inventing versus receiving an idea: Pasulka’s accounts of ideas read as off-world downloads and Lilly’s metaprogramming.
- A responsive object can feel like a partnerCurated parallel
A curated parallel: two installations, Rokeby’s movement-to-sound system and Lozano-Hemmer’s voice-replaying microphones, that make a technical process feel like a partner.
- The rule changes what a mark can becomeCurated parallel
A parallel, not an equivalence: the rule that turns Johnny’s marks into sound, beside explicit rules that change patterns in cellular automata.
- Beings we imagine, beings we reportCurated parallel
An editorial trail: Canales’s thought-experiment demons, Amaringo’s paintings and DMT reports each make an unfamiliar presence discussable, in different ways.