Psychedelics and the Path to Catastrophism

He describes how a single psychedelic experience in his youth completely reoriented his understanding of reality and set him on a lifelong path of investigation. The shift was profound enough that it altered everything about how he engaged with the world, and in his assessment, for the better. That initial experience generated questions he felt compelled to answer, questions that led him into geology, sacred geometry, catastrophism, and the broader study of cosmic cycles. The books lining his shelves today, some purchased while still in high school, represent decades of sustained inquiry into what that experience revealed. Fifty years later, the curiosity remains as intense as it was at the beginning. He traces a direct line from that early encounter to the work he does now, the research he conducts, and the frameworks he continues to build.