Future Human

But my experience is that the diamond soul is born in history, the future human is born, and that future human is magnificently beautiful, just beautiful beyond description. And we see glimpses of it in the Great. We see it in Christ, and we see it in the great Buddhas and the prophets of...

Well, the first book I wrote as an academic was Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life. I was interested in reincarnation early in my career. I encountered Ian Stevenson's research at the University of Virginia. Around the same time, I encountered Stan Grof's research in his book, Realms of the Human Unconscious. I...

Such a long journey, so many years, so many levels of consciousness—it’s impossible for me to summarize them succinctly. But for today, I want to focus on two aspects that are relevant to the discussion of consciousness and building a regenerative society. The first has to do with the collective level of mind and...

Well, we've just gone through an election in our country, which was, for the liberal side of the continent like me, very disappointing and very upsetting. What's happening in politics, in my country and in many countries around the world, this whole movement to the conservative right is very much of concern, especially since...

Yeah, first, Stephen, thank you, buddy, for that very nice and warm introduction. I really appreciate our friendship, and I appreciate what you're doing with the conference, and Marc, you too. This is a great conference. It's my favorite psychedelic conference to participate in, and I always find it such a rich setting and...

In "LSD and the Mind of the Universe," there's a chapter on the birth of the future human. I never expected insights about human history to arise, especially before my ecological awareness in 1991-1995. I received visions about humanity's evolutionary saga, indicating we're at a turning point—a definitive turning point in history, an evolutionary...

But coming out of it, we are not simply creating a new society or a better society, a new economy, or a new ecology. We are actually giving birth to a new form of the human species. The fundamental architecture of the collective psyche is pivoting, and as it pivots, we are giving birth...

Thank you, everyone. It's a pleasure to be here with you tonight. Since my understanding is that psychedelics is not a frequent topic in the San Diego Integral community, in talking with Kathy, Tom, and people on your board, we decided that we would begin with a short breakout before I talk, just to...

I think the modern self is a birth that was given, is the self-sense that was given birth to in the Age of Enlightenment, and it's the rational self; it gives birth to science, the scientific self. I think what we're seeing is now that the modern self is thoroughly and deeply established, the...

Let's hold the second part of that question about how psychedelics might help us on a better path forward, and let me address the first part. This was one of the biggest surprises of my work. First, I had to let go of framing my work as personal journey, personal transformation, personal healing, personal...

Jumping many years ahead in my work, I summarized my experiences of our time in history, what's happening underneath the surface, where we're going, in a chapter called The Birth of the Future Human. There I was given a number of visions over many years of humanity coming to a turning point, humanity coming...

It's not just individual awakening; it's collective. We're all giving birth to the Diamond Soul. The species can't afford to live fragmented anymore. An ego-built world serves some, not others. When the soul wakes to its profound compassion, we live differently. I see this period as tumultuous, a birth process—the death of ego culture,...

One of the last great visions that the universe gave me in one of my sessions took me deep into deep time. It took me deep into the future, and it gave me my last experience of the Future Human. It was as if it took me into the future and allowed me to...

Though I glimpsed the future human—a transformed humanity—I wasn't shown how nature would achieve it. Then, in 1995, I entered the diamond Luminosity phase, working at advanced levels. Instead of re-entering diamond Luminosity, I dissolved into the species and was taken into the future, into what I call deep time. There, I experienced a...

It's a pleasure to be here, Bas and everyone. Thanks for the invitation. My voice is rough due to a cold, but this material is too important to pass up, especially an opportunity to talk with Duane, a friend for over 25 years. Our research and writing brought us together; now it's a deep,...

Well, what I share with you now doesn't come from an intellectual basis or books I've read. I wish I could give documentation that academics love to cite, but I have to speak to you out of my spiritual and psychedelic experiences. Over the course of this long journey, I was plunged into a...

Oh, that's a big question. When I began this work, I thought I was doing it for my personal edification, for my personal healing, maybe even my spiritual realization. But even though that was my mindset, it wasn't the universe's mindset. The mystery of the collective ramifications of our work, the collective import, is...

Completely surprised by these visions—since I was at the tail end of thinking my work was about personal transformation—I found these consistently about collective transformation. Nowhere was I shown how nature would pull off this transformation. In 1995, during the diamond Luminosity work—having entered the diamond Luminosity twice—I was expecting to be taken back...

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....

At the core of these experiences was the realization that all this suffering was coming to a crescendo in history, where we would pivot into a higher order of psycho-spiritual realization. Eventually, I cataloged these visions in my book, referring to them as the visions of awakening, six core visions. The creative intelligence wasn't...

Well, thank you very much, Heather, and thank you, everybody, for inviting me here and letting me spend this time with you. Let's get into it. We have this topic we're looking at today, the birth of the future human—it’s a huge topic, so we'll have to trim it a little and shape it,...

This is when soul consciousness awakens—not in an anti-Buddhist way, but in a way compatible with śūnyatā. We awaken to the being we are in the community of beings as they are on a planet at this evolutionary stage, with billions of years ahead of us. I think we're just beginning to see the...

What I did in my first book on psychedelics, Dark Night, Early Dawn, was put together three areas of inquiry: psychedelic research, near-death episode research, and out-of-body research, particularly the work of Robert Monroe, founder of the Monroe Institute of Applied Science, author of three books exploring the out-of-body state. I asked whether the...

We don't come through, but a new 'we' is born. I believe that these historical pressures building up are literally a birth. They are truly giving birth to the future human. But then the question is, what will this future human look like? What is actually being born in history? Is this just an...

Well, you know, as I've written about in my book LSD and the Mind of the Universe, there's a chapter on the birth of the future human, where I summarize all the visions that I was given through many years of doing the deep psychedelic work that I did. And I don't know whether...

Yes, there's going to be pain because past choices have accumulated in our social systems, legal systems, economic systems, and our bodies. There's a tremendous detoxification taking place and about to take place—a purification process. We're entering what I think of as a birth process. Birth is hard work, as every woman will tell...

In between these four immersions, there were, as you might guess, repeated episodes of deep cleansing, profound purification, many personal healings, and then coming back into these states of hyper clarity. There's so much more I'd like to say here, but I'll stop here and move on to the ninth chapter. I wish I...

This was a great surprise in my work. I began thinking about individual transformation, but after about four years, I began receiving visions concerning humanity's collective transformation. Consistently, these visions indicated a coming point in history of decisive transformation and evolutionary jump in consciousness—times of great blessing, great grace, illumination, and healing. Although it...

I think of it as an overture. It contains some of the key elements of the symphony that's coming, but only in short, abbreviated forms. It's mobilizing us. I think what's coming is going to be much, much worse, but this has disoriented us a lot, and it’s given us a lot of lessons....

Okay, collective mind. There are three chapters that have to do with the collective mind: The Ocean of Suffering—sort of the challenging, purifying part of working with the species mind. Deep Time and the Soul is an initiation into the universe. I'm going to come back to these in a minute. Archetypal mind, there...

To go as far as we need to save ourselves and the planet, we need to understand the dynamics of the collective unconscious and how fields operate in non-equilibrium systems. This is what comes through my visionary experiences repeatedly. We're approaching a crisis that builds in intensity until it seems all is lost, with...

That's a big topic. Okay, I'm happy to touch on it. Again, it was one of the deep surprises of my journey because I'd never imagined something like this would become part of it. I was thinking in terms of the conventional descriptions of enlightenment you find in spiritual or mystical traditions. But systematically,...

We open ourselves as we purify ourselves, we open ourselves into the cosmic arms, into the embrace of our own history, into the sacred communion, which is taking us forward out of this century. I think a new humanity is coming, the future human. You know, I call it the birth of the diamond...

The final chapter, "The Birth of the Future Human," is a story that surprised me, revealing my work's profound connection to our species' history, collective purification, and transformation processes. In this chapter, I summarize teachings given to me over 15 years, spanning multiple sessions and visions. This is the material I'd like to discuss...

Ever since this time, I’ve come to understand that my personal belief, and what the visionary experiences showed me, is that humanity is coming to a decisive moment in its evolutionary journey. We are coming into a time of critical challenge requiring maximum effort and clarity. Literally, this is a time of labor. Gestation...

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...

It's a journey, and each phase was exciting in its own right. I don't have a favorite. Personally, the diamond Luminosity is profound. The story of the birth of the future human is significant, as it relates to reincarnation and humanity's trajectory. In one session, all my lives integrated, and this fusion ignited a...

It's a story of a journey, and every phase was an exciting adventure. I don't have a favorite per se. The diamond luminosity is, from my heart, the deepest dimension. The story of the birth of the future human, where reincarnation is taking humanity, is important. In one session, I experienced all my former...

In the early stages, there's reliving birth and experiencing the birth canal. The womb is entry into time and space, the grave the exit. As consciousness expands beyond time-space, there's a revolving door of death and rebirth, often reliving birth to re-enter spiritual reality. In later stages, it's not literal but metaphorical. I discuss...

Let me take you through a list of the chapters of "LSD and the Mind of the Universe": a methodology chapter, then the content: "Crossing the Boundary of Birth and Death," "The Ocean of Suffering," "Deep Time in the Soul," "Initiation into the Universe," "The Greater Real of Archetypal Reality," "A Benediction of Blessings,"...