Most people spend their lives inside the visible world, surrounded by forms that seem solid and separate. Yet beneath this apparent solidity lies a deeper fabric — a field of coherence that holds everything together. From time to time, certain individuals cross the threshold into this abstract domain. It happens in deep meditation, during near-death experiences, or, as in the recent case of biohacker Bryan Johnson, through a high-dose psilocybin journey.

What draws us to explore such realms is not curiosity alone but an ancient longing — to experience the truth behind appearances. To see not merely what reality shows, but what it is. In this pursuit, perception itself becomes the portal. When the mechanisms that define oneself loosen, the mind begins to perceive without boundaries. The everyday self, which usually filters the world into names and objects, momentarily dissolves, revealing an unbroken continuum.

What Johnson experienced was not chaos or delusion but entry into the abstraction zone — the space where reality and consciousness overlap. The Default Mode Network, the brain’s organiser of identity and time, relaxed. The field behind perception began to shine through. Time lost its linear flow; trees seemed to breathe; faces appeared alive with the pulse of energy that underlies all matter. The world he saw was still the same, yet its foundation had shifted from form to frequency.

In that expanded perception, the universe no longer appeared as something out there. The observer and the observed were the same vibration folded back on itself. He felt this as oneness — the disappearance of the dividing line that thought normally enforces. The happiness he described was not the excitement of sensation but the pure resonance that arises when consciousness meets its own source.

To glimpse this field is to realise that the world we inhabit is a projection, a holographic condensation of something infinitely subtler. The brain usually acts as the collapse mechanism that translates that boundless field into a localised story of “this body” and “that tree.” But when the collapsing relaxes, awareness enters the space before form takes shape — the wave reality that all things emerge from.

This is not a hallucination. It is a rare reversal of perspective, where one perceives the background instead of the picture. The patterns of energy that give rise to matter become visible, and with them comes the sense that everything is alive, everything connected, everything arising from one field of intelligence.

To experience this directly is to know, not as belief but as being, that existence is whole. The abstraction zone is not somewhere else. It is here, just beneath the frequency of thought, waiting to be seen when the mind grows still enough to perceive its own foundation.

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