Clear Light

Very briefly, in the book, I describe the levels of consciousness I went through in this process: a series of death and rebirth experiences, starting with the personal level of mind, going through ego death, then reaching the collective level of mind, engaging deep structures within the collective psyche. Third, the archetypal dimension of...

That’s not a silly question at all. The phrase "Diamond Luminosity" points to states of consciousness I entered in the last five years of my work. I'd gone through the perinatal process, solid ego death, into the ocean of suffering, and into archetypal reality. In the last five years, I was catapulted into a...

Fifteen years into my journey, I received more blessings than I could have imagined, having paid my dues in the ocean of suffering work, rewarded with more blessings than I could count. Yet, there were five years remaining, and I went through another death and rebirth process, entering what I call the domain of...

It took me a while to figure it out after my work ended in '99, when plotting the larger trajectory for the book. I differentiated five levels of consciousness that seemed operational. The first is at the level of personal mind, going beyond personal time-space identity, culminating in what we call ego death. The...

I have to back up a bit. I went through another death-rebirth process, entering what I call causal mind — the universe experienced as a condition of consciousness where everything is one. All of life pulses as a single totality, an overwhelming experience of fundamental oneness, where personal boundaries dissolve. I encountered Shunyata, or...

What happened on this journey was that I went through not just one death, not just ego death, but multiple layers of reality, entering deeper and deeper levels of consciousness. Accessing these deeper levels required going through a series of deaths—dying at one level of consciousness to enter a deeper level, mastering it, then...

My understanding is that the Diamond Luminosity is an extra-Samsaric reality that lies outside the Bardo, outside of Samsara, outside all the cycles of physical reality, and the Bardo realities of psychic reality. It is the pure light from which the universe arises and returns. It is Dharmakāya, the clear light of absolute reality....

This transition occurred 15 years into my work. I had gone through ego death, the ocean of collective suffering, archetypal reality, and had been through incredible blessings—experiences of oneness, emptiness, cosmic love, primal void. I felt existentially complete; the universe had rewarded me with blessings that left me feeling profoundly complete. I'd been given...

Reflecting on the Diamond Luminosity, parallels to spiritual traditions that come to mind, especially Buddhism, describe Dharmakāya, the clear light of absolute reality. It's the seed reality out of which all existence emerges, the love from which all love emerges, pure power from which all energy of Creation emerges—transcendent and hyper-clear. Touching that reality...

Well, we're going to start with the first module. There's seven modules. The first module is going to be on methodology. I'm going to lay out the method, answer people's questions, address their misgivings about psychedelics, explain what psychedelics do and don't do, and specifically address the particular protocol I used because it was...

There are many blessings in this work—insight, transformation, opening—but I use "diamonds from heaven" more specifically. After 15 years and moving through ego deaths and deeper realities, I was catapulted into a dimension of pure, crystalline light. I had experienced light before, but this was diamond consciousness—an ultra-clear quality not metaphorical. Over the last...

From here, my sessions took me next into the diamond Luminosity material in the chapter called Diamond Luminosity. This chapter covers 26 sessions and four years of work. In those four years, I entered this state, which I call diamond Luminosity, four times and only four times. I entered a state of reality that...

For the last five years, I entered a domain I called the Diamond Luminosity, an extremely pure form of consciousness that Buddhism refers to as the Dharmakāya, the clear light of absolute reality. The last five years of sessions were filled with a lot of purification and healing work.

It became too difficult to return. I spent my last years in communion with what I call Diamond Luminosity, repeatedly dissolved into the clear light of absolute reality—Dharmakāya. These were temporary states and, although deeply satisfying, leaving them became a heartache. It was essential to integrate and digest these experiences into the rest of...

Everybody has different measures of tolerance and different circumstances. I don't think it's wise to push, even though I did this as responsibly as I could, taking very good care of my body throughout and between sessions. I was doing about five sessions a year. I worked for four years, stopped for six years,...

Hmm. Let me just kind of lay out some of the sequences, the categories. When I got to the end of the journey, well, I went through what I experienced as a series of punctuated death and rebirth experiences. I would break into a new level of consciousness. I would then stabilize at that...

So this was a major change in my thinking. It took place in the 50th session. My background is, I did four years of work. I stopped for six years, and then I did 10 years of work, so 14 years of active work over 20 years. When I was entering into the last...

I adopted the vocabulary Stan Grof developed: psychic levels, subtle levels, and causal levels. Consciousness differentiates psychic low and high, subtle low and high, causal low and high. Those are approximations, as the universe has many hundreds of levels. I didn't have a vested interest in a particular model, but looking back at the...

So, this was a major change in my thinking. It took place in the 50th session. So, my background is I did four years of work, I stopped for six years, and then I did ten years of work. So, 14 years of active work over 20 years. But when I was entering into...

Let me back up a little bit to give context, and then you bring me back. If I don't get back to it, bring me back to this—the birth of the future human. I found that when I was working with these very high levels of LSD—and again, this is a protocol that I...

Yeah, absolutely. Ayahuasca is a beautiful, extraordinary medicine. If I were starting this sequence over again, I wouldn't do it the way I did. I wouldn't work so consistently with sustained high-dose LSD sessions. I'd balance low and high-dose sessions, and I'd also balance LSD with Ayahuasca sessions and Psilocybin sessions. Psilocybin and Ayahuasca...

In my sessions, the idea always came that this evolution would unfold faster than imaginable—a pace unconnected to our historical development rate. It hinges on profound, collective psychic transformation. From here, I went into the Diamond Luminosity work, five years of entering progressively clearer consciousness, devoid of content yet breathtakingly luminescent—what Buddhism calls Dharmakāya,...

In the last five years, I encountered what I call the Diamond Luminosity. My understanding is that this is what the Buddhists call Dharmakaya, the domain of light that lies outside Samsara, the luminescent clear light from which all existence emerges. Over 26 sessions, I entered that reality only four times, with intense purification...

After that, then I went, I was coming into the last five years of work, and the last five years catapulted me after again, more rounds of purification, death and rebirth, into a cosmic light that was so intense and so clear and so pure. I called it the diamond luminosity, and that's where...

After one more death and rebirth cycle, I entered an extraordinarily hyper-clear state of consciousness, a state I came to call Diamond Luminosity. It's what Buddhists call Dharmakāya, the absolute clear light of being. I had experienced light many times before, at the subtle level and in different dimensions, but this was a different...

Yeah, that was after I stopped the journey. Yes, so I have to fill in a little bit of a blank, and then I can say what happened after the journey. In the book Diamonds from Heaven, I tell the story of ego death, moving into the ocean of suffering, and then moving into...