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Batuhan Bintas

Batuhan is a creative technologist, independent researcher, global speaker, and AI animator whose work investigates the deep intersections of consciousness, myth, and psychedelic experience. He has spoken internationally at major gatherings such as Boom Festival, Ozora Festival, and Glastonbury Festival. Batuhan was also a volunteer participant in the DMT research trials at Imperial College London’s Centre for Psychedelic Research, offering firsthand insight into scientific investigations of DMT experiences.

He has been featured on Graham Hancock’s website discussing the similarities between Amazonian and Anatolian shamanism and the recurring “cosmic serpent” archetype: https://grahamhancock.com/bintasb1/

In a detailed Hancock Hour interview, Batuhan explores firsthand DMT hyperspace encounters and the broader implications of these states.

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Maya Bracknell Watson

Maya Bracknell Watson is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and psychedelic researcher who works at the intersection of art, consciousness, and exceptional human experience. Her background includes psychedelic parapsychology research, shamanic study with indigenous traditions from Mexico and Peru, and public lecturing on altered states, entity encounters, and symbolic ontology. She creates and shares artistic, immersive work informed by her research, and has presented at international events exploring psychedelia, shamanism, and human consciousness. 

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Prof. David Luke

David Luke is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich and a leading researcher in altered states of consciousness, exceptional experiences, and psychedelic phenomenology. His work explores the boundaries of human experience, investigating topics such as mystical states, dreams, entity encounters, and anomalous phenomena through the lenses of psychology, anthropology, and consciousness studies.

For over two decades, David has contributed to the scientific exploration of non-ordinary states of consciousness, helping to bridge academic research with broader cultural and philosophical questions about the nature of mind and reality. Through his teaching, publications, and public engagement, he has become a respected voice in the study of extraordinary human experiences and their significance for understanding consciousness.

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Sam Gandy

Researcher & Psychedelic Scientist, Beckley Foundation

Sam Gandy is a neuroscientist and psychedelic researcher whose work explores consciousness, mystical experience, and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics.

Together, Sam Gandy and David Luke are currently leading a new study investigating mantis beings, entity encounters, and alien-like experiences reported under DMT.

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Danny Goler

Danny Goler is an independent researcher who is known for his thought-provoking explorations of consciousness and the nature of reality, with a unique ability to bridge science, philosophy, and the spiritual pursuit. Danny engages
audiences in deep conversations about reality and our place in it.

Danny is the founder of Code of Reality (COR), an interdisciplinary initiative that explores what he calls Cognitive Physics: the fertile territory where mind and matter meet. COR convenes scientists, philosophers, technologists, and
indigenous wisdom-keepers in collaborative investigations designed to blur the line between observer and observed. By fostering dialogue across disciplines normally siloed from one another, COR serves as both a research hub and a
cultural bridge, advancing a holistic science of consciousness that can thrive alongside mainstream physics.

Vice Article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/danny-goler-dmt-vape-laser-simulation/

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Stephano Gutierrez

Maya Bracknell Watson is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and psychedelic researcher who works at the intersection of art, consciousness, and exceptional human experience. Her background includes psychedelic parapsychology research, shamanic study with indigenous traditions from Mexico and Peru, and public lecturing on altered states, entity encounters, and symbolic ontology. She creates and shares artistic, immersive work informed by her research, and has presented at international events exploring psychedelia, shamanism, and human consciousness. 

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Dawid Rakowski

Dawid Rakowski is a psychedelic guide, sound alchemist, and history teacher based in Peru, with over 15 years of direct engagement in indigenous plant-medicine traditions. His work connects archaeological insight, ceremonial practice, and cross-cultural visionary lore.

Dawid’s research and perspectives on ancient visionary traditions and their resonance in contemporary consciousness exploration are featured on Graham Hancock’s site here: https://grahamhancock.com/rakowskid1/

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Agathe Fauchille

PhD Researcher in Psychedelic Neuroscience,

UCL Centre for Consciousness Research

Agathe’s work focuses on DMT and its capacity to induce profound spiritual experiences. She integrates neurobiology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy to develop novel frameworks for studying altered states and their long-term transformative potential.

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Dr. Georgia Wilson Jones

Psychiatry Resident, University of Rome La Sapienza

Dr. Wilson Jones specializes in the interface between substance use and psychosis, with a particular interest in the phenomenology of altered states of consciousness. She currently serves as a psychiatrist at Regina Coeli Prison in Rome and will soon teach neuroscience and phenomenology modules in Italy’s first Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Training Course.

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