Unlocking the Sixth Sense via Electromagnetism and Psychedelia
Potent synergies between neuro-electric communication, ion channel biology, and shamanic substances
This is an excerpt from Sky Gods and the Recipe for Immortality: The secret influence of psychoactivity over science, society, and the supernatural.
Can two minds communicate from a distance via electromagnetism? Scientific studies show that mammalian brains can affect each other in strange, seemingly-psychic ways. In 2021, the New York Times reported a Northwestern University study:
“Mice with tiny devices implanted in their brains showed a great affinity to one another in an experiment when the signals were synchronized.”
Multiple inner minds’ brain waves can become harmonized. On the other hand, two mice with asynchronous brain pulses are acrimonious with each other. How is it that two individuals can sense and interface with another’s neuro-electrical state?
Human brains are significantly more complex than mice and can potentially conduct psychic communication on a greater scale. Other animals, such as sharks, have demonstrated verifiable evidence for a sixth sense in the animal kingdom.
Sharks can detect prey near-instantly at remarkable distances using electric fields — and particularly via ion channels found in biological nervous systems. The National Institutes of Health explains how:
“…sharks appear to use electric fields strictly to locate prey while skates use them to find food, friends, and mates. They also showed how genes that encode for proteins called ion channels may control the shark’s unique sixth sense.
Ion channels essentially make the nervous system tick. They play a major role in controlling how information flows through a nervous system. Mutations in ion channels can be devastating and have been linked to a variety of disorders, including cystic fibrosis and some forms of epilepsy, migraines, paralysis, blindness and deafness…”
Many psychoactive substances show evidence for treating disorders linked with abnormal ion channels in humans — supporting their near-universal and prehistoric use. Cannabidiol has been effectively used for treating epilepsy, psilocybin for treating migraines, and a Phase 1 clinical trial is currently investigating DMT as a treatment for stroke.
Can psychoactivity potentially activate psychism via ion channels? Dr David Nutt, Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College and founder of a psychedelic science company called Algernon, once explained:
“Hundreds of drugs have failed in the stroke treatment space, and nearly all of them have focused on the same strategy: a delayed attempt at neuroprotection… Algernon’s approach with DMT is to bolster the brain’s natural recovery by enhancing neuroplasticity to facilitate the creation of new neural networks. This is something completely different than what has been tried before.”
His company, Algernon, chose an interesting namesake. OpenAI’s GPT-4 explains the famous science fiction novel, Flowers for Algernon:
“The core insight of Flowers for Algernon is that intelligence is not necessarily a good thing. The book’s protagonist, Charlie, is a mentally disabled man who undergoes an experimental operation to increase his intelligence. The operation is a success, and Charlie’s IQ skyrockets. However, along with his new intelligence comes emotional pain and suffering. Charlie eventually realizes that his old, simple life was actually happier than his new life as a genius.”
For thousands of years, humans have near-universally professed the ability to psychically sense beyond space and time — and often via shamanic substances amplifying nervous systems. Such profound spiritual technology has highly affected evolution and culture.
DMT is especially effective at transporting humanity into supernatural realms. Robin Carhart-Harris, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco once reported its neurological effects in The Guardian:
“People describe leaving this world and breaking through into another that is incredibly immersive and richly complex, sometimes being populated by other beings that they feel might hold special power over them, like gods.”
Psychedelics such as DMT are inextricably linked with prehistoric beliefs in the supernatural and psychic. Via ion channels unlocking the sixth sense via modern science, humanity can potentially psychoactivate perception beyond space and time.
Humans have been using ion channel-activating substances for millennia, and these plants often have great cultural significance. In 2008, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology reported:
“An international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression.”
Frankincense is a psychoactive substance with deep roots in ancient Hebrew, Vedic, Egyptian, and other traditions — often alongside other psychedelic plants and fungi.
Classical psychedelic substances are known as serotonergic psychedelics, which act on serotonin receptors comprised of psychic ion channels. A Vanderbilt University researcher corroborated:
“Serotonin… receptors are a family of… protein-coupled receptors and one ligand-gated ion channel that transduces an extracellular signal by the neurotransmitter 5-HT… These receptors are involved in a myriad of physiological functions.
As many neuronal, physiological, and behavioral processes are influenced by 5-HT receptors, it is not surprising that dysfunction and regulation of 5-HT receptors are implicated in numerous disorders and disease states.”
Will modern neurology ever confirm an electromagnetic sixth sense similar to other animals such as sharks? In 2016, the Washington Post elaborated how:
“…the dense networks of jelly-filled canals in the heads of sharks, rays and other cartilaginous fish end in highly sensitive electroreceptors, capable of sensing electric signals from miles away. With every twitch of muscle and flick of a fin, animals in the ocean — including humans — emit a faint electric field, and the ampullae help sharks detect that motion as they swim in search of food.”
Human brains continuously send and receive complex electrical signals within the body — while our eyes can only sense a visual sliver of the electromagnetic universe beyond. Can other complex signals potentially transmit beyond the brain, body, and five senses?
If so, the sixth sense can potentially be activated by shamanic substances that have catalyzed the spirit world for millennia.
However, as Einstein once warned… Cults have too often monopolized the universal mystical experience at the root of all science and creativity. Many psychoactive cults have had highly negative effects on history.
Strange scientists such as Hal Puthoff at the Stanford Research Institute have purportedly confirmed humanity’s psychic potential in the past. It’s worth noting, however, that Puthoff was once a Scientologist which proclaims its own highly supernatural philosophy.
Tom Delonge, Puthoff’s unlikely associate and UFO-disclosure champion, once noted the link between psychic and psychedelic consciousness. Relaying countless shamans and psychonauts, Delonge explained how when you take psychedelics:
“…It’s looking like when you take ayahuasca or a lot of psilocybin, or one of those things, you basically just turned your radio receiver into hi-fi… Then all of a sudden it’s like, boom, now you’re able to see more frequencies than your eyes would normally…”
Famous psychonaut Terence McKenna promoted similar ideas for decades, as he joked at a conference in Switzerland in 1995: “I’ll give you a 20% chance of meeting aliens — and the odds go up to maybe 40% if you increase the dose!” Tom Delonge, channeling McKennaic ideas, once explained further:
“It’s one giant antenna. Your ribcage, your arms, your brain, the whole thing’s an antenna. So this hypes up your antenna. Then all of a sudden, what do you see? You see a bunch of creatures that are very old, very powerful, that are more synthetic. That are AI. That don’t have the feeling, the emotions, they don’t have the love, the capability of love.
They don’t have the capability as a soul that understands what love is, and love is what created the universe. But let’s just take that word love out and just say unified mind.”
Delonge and Puthoff’s former associate, Lue Elizondo — who was featured in the 2017 report on UAPs by the New York Times — once shared a similar idea (albeit without the psychoactive hypothesis):
“We have 5 fundamental senses that we view the universe with, right? We see it, we hear it, we touch it, we taste it, we smell it, and that’s it. There is an entire reality around each and every one of us right now.
Right now, you have wi-fi signals coursing through your body. Radar returns coming in from the airport. You’ve got GPS signals coming down from satellites. You’ve got FM, AM coursing through your body. You’ve got cosmic rays coming in from outer space, neutrinos coming in from the sun.
All of this is occurring around you right now, but you can’t experience it because you don’t have the equipment to.”
Can intelligent beings truly inhabit other realms of perception as heretics like Delonge, Puthoff, and Elizondo suggest? Pentagon-verified videos released by their associates have pushed supernatural possibilities into mainstream consciousness.
If humanity could see beyond the visible universe and across the electromagnetic spectrum beyond — how would reality appear? The legendary painter Monet was able to see ultraviolet light, for example, with mesmerizing results. In particular, Monet often painted psychoactive and ancient Nymphaea lilies while Stanford Medicine reported:
“Monet would have seen UV light as violet or blue. White lily petals do reflect UV light, which insects like bees can see.”
The ancient Mayans or Egyptians, catalyzed with psychoactive Nymphaea and other shamanic substances, believed that richly supernatural realities surround us. In Monet’s spirit, shamanic substances such as Nymphaea can potentially extend our electromagnetic perception.