Geral Blanchard, LPC, is a psychotherapist who is university trained in psychology and anthropology. Formerly of Wyoming and currently residing in Iowa, Geral travels the world in search of ancient secrets that can augment the art and science of healing. From Western neuroscience to Amazonian shamanism, he has developed an understanding of how to combine old and new healing strategies to optimize recovery, whether from psychological or physical maladies.
MDMA and Quantum Time
Geral T. Blanchard • December 27, 2022
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.
Kammerer was intrigued by coincidences or what later came to be known as the acausal synchronicity principle. Simply put, Kammerer believed information, including memories, cannot be destroyed. He asserted how the environment holds limitless amounts of information even after its source is destroyed by death or separated by distance. Data is still “out there” floating around carrying marks of an original relationship. Everything gains the stamp of the original system, and presumably, that could include trauma. And that information, seemingly separated from us, is not. The phenomenon is called quantum entanglement.
What feels like a massive coincidence, or what Jung called
synchronicity, is information in the vast energetic
field that bumps into remnants of the “other.” He called the amalgamation of it all the
collective unconscious, which can be understood as a collective memory -- a retrievable memory. Further, it would appear that when time is condensed in an MDMA treatment, historical information runs into the now which coalesces into an enlarging consciousness.
The past unites with the present, enriches it, and may alter it for the better. In a way, a full passage of time does not occur. Sleep on that, and wake up yesterday to understand the facts of the field.
It gets more complicated, yet is understandable, when quantum physics is additionally explained by Rupert Sheldrake, a Cambridge University scholar. He developed a theory called morphic resonance. Sheldrake noted that something way out there in the field, finds a familiar lookalike, and upon doing so, causes a reuniting influence of “like upon like.” This phenomenon doesn’t fall off because of time or distance; it is old and new information that keeps building atop each “other” and relationship patterns, or habits, are maintained. Something is awakened in the relative and it is often explained as coincidence, synchronicity, quantum entanglement, telepathy, or morphic resonance. This information is carried by energetic waves, but, somewhat confusingly, there is no transfer of energy.
Sheldrake likens these habits to being a self-organizing system in which all life forms have a collective memory. It is a law of nature. This hypothesis suggests that the information floating about is attracted to similar patterns and then bumps into a comparable wave of data. And, he asserts, intentions can guide and charge the process. The more we have been emotionally bonded and energetically charged by, let’s say, another human who may have harmed us or even a great grandmother, the greater the chance that we all may meet again in one form or another – perhaps in a memory or even a visualization of stored images.
The more often a patterned ritual is repeated -- like the Bushman healing dances that have endured for at least 20,000 years -- a cumulative memory is built up, becomes more habituated, maintained, and inherited with an occasional dump of information. Ancient cave wall paintings depict the same activity and body posture that I have witnessed and are still being practiced in the Bushman Giraffe Dance. And during the heated and focused intent of a healing ceremony, and while in an altered state, I have seen dancers looking heavenward and waving with smiles. They see their ancestors. It is as if the ancient ones were summoned in by intentions and similar patterns. Call it quantum entanglement, morphic resonance, or a good old-fashioned family reunion.
We can inherit genes. We can also inherit morphic states -- memories. And with all that available information arising and at our disposal in an MDMA treatment, one could argue that the constellation of summoned helpers restores a person to an ancient, pre-traumatic, more natural, and healthier state. So when a person is restored in the “now,” knowing that the past is present, one could also assert that intergenerational memories of abuse are being addressed and perhaps updated. Thereafter, less emotional pain will be carried around.
We are in a perpetual habit of organizing and reorganizing. Perhaps that is why, following an MDMA treatment, relief is felt. Some patients have announced, “the buck stops here” because with new emotional tone associated with old information, a change is made that, theoretically, looks like epigenetics.
With an enlarged and higher dimension consciousness experienced with MDMA, plus a flood of calming hormones and brain neurotransmitters, dark energy (hucha) is gently pushed aside, and a lighter vibration (sami) sets in.
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“Because we are made up of energy, keeping negative emotions in the body for too long can cause disease. The higher your dimensional consciousness, the harder it is for negative energy to be in your cells. Love is a healing energy and the strongest weapon we have.” - Kimberly Meredith in
Awakening to the Fifth Dimension
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Additional Reading:
The Presence of the Past: The Memory of Nature by Rupert Sheldrake
Meaningful Coincidences by Bernard Beitman
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Basics of MDMA
Rituals and Ceremony
Brain and MDMA
Trauma
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Energy Movement
Quantum Physics
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