I was using the ‘zoom out’ function on Midjourney as a medium for actively imagining a DMT entity I once encountered, and I found some variations of an initial image evolved in a number of distinct directions, each with their own archetypal themes or ‘messages’.

What I find fascinating in Hermetic and Gnostic Genesis myths are the formative encounters with limitation (and/or malevolent and inherently constricting daimons) that occur for the incarnating soul. In the myth of Sophia, for example, this limit is called Horos, meaning boundary. We can recognize the prefix from the well-known word “horoscope”—an astrological vision of a soul that has come under the dominion of a specifically limiting boundary.

Running Kosmos Institute has its perks, and topmost among these is having a seat in all the classes. This perk turned out to be invaluable. Even on day one, as I attended The Near Death Experience, followed immediately by Alchemy East and West, I clearly observed a thread of light connecting the two and illuminating what I now perceived as their shared field—consciousness.