Hyperspace, DMT, Ecological Collapse, Nuclear War

Chaotic accident or exquisitely timed simulation programmed by an alien hyperintelligence?

Studying current events and reviewing new developments in consciousness research, I feel compelled to return to a hypothesis often found in recent psychedelic literature (including my own):

We actually are approaching something like the “End of Time,” facing an inevitable bifurcation of humanity between those who will embrace gnosis/“hyperspace” and become, in some sense, immortal or atemporal, and those who are not ready to make the leap. For those who believe in reincarnation, the theory is that these other human souls continue their journey either in the future here on Earth, or if this world becomes unviable for sentient life, on other unknown worlds.

I realize this thesis — separating saved from damned, heaven from hell — seems irritatingly close to the Last Judgement of Revelation. The idea came back into focus for me last week at a wonderful Yorkshire conference on DMT and the “presence of the sentient other,” particularly through the work of Andrew R. Gallimore. A former cognitive neuroscientist Gallimore gave an extraordinary presentation at the conference. I am currently absorbing his book, Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game, which is fascinating.

Deeply influenced by Terence McKenna, Gallimore proposes that the evolution of sentient life in a physical universe is a kind of cosmic game.