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Origin Story (in case you care) #

I’ve now spent 20 years exploring consciousness in one way or another. Psychedelics yes, but I’ve also built dream machines and ganzfeld setups. I’ve scryed black mirrors, I’ve used float tanks. I’ve gone on retreats, done holotropic breathwork. Monitored EEG during weird meditative states. And I had a lot of interesting experiences along the way. I’ve also done strange mind-adjacent things like build memory palaces to successfully recall multiple decks of cards, learned how to control my HRV, and done a few extreme endurance feats.

Now is the time to gather some of the most useful stuff for others to find. I once had an idea for a book entitled The Big Book of Psychonautic Exploration. It was going to open on a full-bleed photo of Lux Interior from the Cramps, in his best Rocky Horror outfit, with the quote “Let’s get fuuuuucked up!” on the opposite page. The next spread would be a photo of Ram Dass looking serene, with the quote “Treat everyone you meet like God in drag” on the opposite page.

Each chapter would be a way of exploring consciousness, pairing a practical guide on some obscure practice, with stories of people who’d been out there and come back. I wanted it to be useful, funny, surreal and disorientating — like all the best drugs literature I’d read.

But 1; nobody reads books any more, and 2; I’d have to go collect all the stories anyway.

So here we are, getting two birds stoned at once, as they say. My wish is to collect enough data that this actually becomes useful academically, but we’ll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, I hope some readers find this collection intriguing enough to explore.

– Void Operator