Epicene

Epicene was my first immersive installation back in 1998-9. As you can see from the image above it involved a large bed-like structure suspended in the air and supported by a metal frame. When the participant got onto the platform a hypnotic/frequency induction helped them into a trance state in which images and emotional aspects of their psyche would arise. Depending upon the person this could become a very deep and even profound experience.

As it was based upon my work with the out-of-body experience (OBE), one of my key aims was to help people have an OBE for themselves.

The piece was very well received and allowed those who took part to experience a whole range of altered states of consciousness. In many ways it is the artwork I am most proud of, it gave people a real experience, and made me realise that this was my goal as an artist. I did not want to simply create interesting pictures that had an aesthetic appeal, I wanted to give people something of the life-affirming experiences I’d had via the out-of-body state.

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130 Years of Parapsychology

This article was first published in Kindred Spirit magazine in February, 2012. In his book The History of Spiritualism, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describes how in January 1882 a meeting took place that would, a month later, lead to the founding of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). The SPR would become the ﬁrst organisation in the world dedicated to scientiﬁcally exploring psychic … [Read More...]

Out-of-Body Experiences into Space

Space has always held a special fascination for me. As a very young child of no more than 5 or 6 years old I would see vivid images of the cosmos rising into my awareness. I remember one in particular of the rings of Saturn, full with colour and an almost incomprehensible sense of expanse. Later, when I began to leave my physical body behind, through an out-of-body experience, it was only natural … [Read More...]

Ed Mitchell - NASA

Out-of-Body Experiences: In Search of the Truth – Noetic Now

An article exploring my years of exploration into the truth of out-of-body experiences written for IONS, or the Institute of Noetic Sciences. IONS was founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon. It was approaching Christmas, and the medieval city of Tallinn, in the northern European country of Estonia, had been covered with snow for some time. … [Read More...]