Every person who experiences MDMA asks the question, “Where did the time go?” What seemed like an hour or two becomes six hours. But that’s not the only unique thing about this relationship healing empathogen. Some people report seeing ancestors they had never previously met in this life. Others recall events that previously were not thought to be known to them on a conscious level. Still others experience intergenerational healing, accessing and cauterizing painful memories that preceded their birth. To comprehend this we must understand what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious. By that he meant a stored and shared memory across peoples and across generations. Freud was dismissive of Jung’s thinking but early quantum physicists, like another Austrian, Paul Kammerer, aligned themselves with Jung.

Often patients find their third session as being more otherworldly or cosmic in nature. While the first two are heavy on intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships, the final treatment can strengthen or restore relationships with the earth, other animal relatives, and supportive energy fields in the universe. In October of 2022 the Nobel Peace Prize for Physics was awarded to three scientists who discovered and confirmed what has long been a contention of quantum physics, namely entanglement. Once we have an emotionally or energetically charged connection with any life form, molecules begin to vibrate in unison and they reach a high level of coherence. It is like two become one no matter how far apart they are, which is nonlocality. The connections cause what was once a singular unit to now operate in tandem with their “dance partner.” And the unbroken union allows for communication instantaneously, faster than the speed of sound or light.

Certainty and predictability is what all of us seek, particularly if we have come from an environment of unpredictability, chaos, and trauma. Understanding something and predicting what might occur next provides comfort. Uncertainty and mysteries can be a little unsettling. It is natural to want to grasp onto something for emotional serenity to have faith in the way things are and can be, hopefully built on visible, tangible, and measurable evidence. In the grand scheme of things, what really matters? To make the next point the important question for now will be, “What is matter?” It is regarded as a handful of elementary particles which vibrate and fluctuate constantly between existence and non-existence. Eye opening and comforting? Didn’t think so. Try this. Did you know that only 4 percent of our universe consists of ordinary matter of the kind we are familiar? The rest, 96 percent, is a complete mystery. It may be that the world is more boundless and mysterious than we can even imagine

The form of “God” is energy. And the entire universe is alive, literally singing with vibrational forms of faintly audible energy. Humans are a part of this immense choral group and can more fully unite with it by merging attitudinally and tonally. Of the primary elements in the universe, each is associated with our many (perhaps 30+) senses: 1) fire is associated with touch and sight, 2) water is correlated with taste, 3) earth is linked with smell, and 4) wind is coupled with touch and hearing. Additionally, according to the Upanishad texts of the Vedic era, there is 5) vibration, the most subtle of all elements which is referred to as akash and linked with hearing too. Within some ancient cosmologies on up to quantum physics, the thoughts of our minds are said to make sounds. And mind, with these attendant sounds, creates matter. Further, with clean and clear intentions, or desires, we combine with the vibratory chorus of the universe and which makes our vast home even bigger, better, and more complex.

There is a cosmic plan in place that guides our personal and societal evolution.

Ebenezer Scrooge, in Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, experienced a quantum change in spirit, a spiritual transformation of sorts. It was the story of how the wealthy sometimes must be supernaturally terrorized into sharing. William Miller, a research psychologist in New Mexico, coined the term quantum change after interviewing fifty-five people who reported they had undergone a sudden radical transformation in a relatively short period of time. He defines quantum change as “a vivid, surprising, benevolent, and enduring personal transformation when profound awe, a sense of bright light, and a feeling of love were all usually present.” I liken it to a positive trauma.

All of us have been indoctrinated into the theory of a three-dimensional reality – the length, breadth, and height of things – extensions into space. Hyperspace, meaning going beyond three dimensions, was introduced in science fiction literature and movies suggesting we have always toyed with ideas of something bigger and more complex existing “out there.” Our interest in astronomy, or even astrology, suggests we have long wanted to imagine looking beyond current sensory and cognitive limitations. Since humankind invented religion, many cultures held the cherished and comforting belief that there is a sought after destination called heaven, a place outside our current understanding of space.

Please don’t let the words put you off. They are just scientific ways of saying arising from without or within. MDMA is a concoction made outside the body that enables people to transcend a somewhat narrow existence of suffering or meaninglessness and rise to an elevated state some might call ecstasy. It is a medicine taken in capsule form. But the question before us is, does our united bodymind have the capacity to make a hormonal, chemical, and spiritual medicine, one that somehow is produced and developed without outside drugs coming into play?