In 1979, Chris Bache began a life-changing journey. Drawing on his training as a philosopher of religion, Bache set out to explore his consciousness as systematically as possible with the help of LSD. Following protocols established by Stanislav Grof, he conducted 73 therapeutically structured, high-dose LSD sessions over 20 years.

Journey alongside professor Bache as describes the stages of his journey and the spiral of death and rebirth that took him into an ever-deepening communion with universe. He shares his experience of the creative intelligence that both embraced and crushed him in a series of initiations that became the philosophical adventure of a lifetime. He describes the incalculable value of embracing the pain and suffering he encountered on this journey and the challenges he faced integrating his experiences into his everyday life. At the center of his narrative are the visions he was given of humanity’s evolutionary journey and the turning point it has come to as it strains to give birth to the future human.

Pushing the boundaries of theory and practice, the author shows how psychedelic experience can take you beyond self-transformation into collective transformation, beyond the present into the future, and beyond spacetime into the divine luminosity that lies outside cyclic existence.