Post NDE, Molecular Physicist designs VR System to induce mystical experiences

If you want to know more about Numadelic VR: https://www.numadeliclabs.org/

David Glowacki is a cross-disciplinary researcher and artist who founded the ‘Intangible Realities Laboratory’ (IRL) in Spain, focusing on open-source research at the immersive frontiers of technology and science. One of Glowacki’s projects at IRL has been to translate his own near-death experience into an intersubjective VR experience.

A 2020 study showed that the VR phenomenology Glowacki constructed induced peak mystical-type experiences similar to near-death and psychedelic experiences. In this conversation with Hans Busstra, Glowacki explains how his VR work induces mystical-type experiences and how it led him to develop fascinating new visual metaphors for non-duality.

Central to Glowacki’s VR experience is the notion that our material bodies are mental models—models that may be more accurately visualized as energy. In doing so, Glowacki creates an aesthetic effect at the intersection of physics and spirituality, which conveys the fundamentally unbounded, non-local, and omnipresent nature of who we are.

David Glowacki’s personal website: https://glow-wacky.com/

Intangible Realities Lab: https://www.intangiblerealitieslab.org