What unites the innovative ‘geniuses’ of our era, Descartes, Bohr, Poincare, Ramanujan, Mendeleyev, Von-Neumann, Tesla, Heisenberg, Loewi, Crick, and Einstien, is not disposition, personality, or character. The founders of our modern, scientific paradigm all owe their insights and innovations to information gained from non-ordinary states of consciousness. Look at their and others personal narratives, and the same pattern emerges: Genius is not an identity, it is a state of mind.

Dreams, visions, voices, and the unconscious can at times offer up knowledge as if out of nowhere, without reference to one’s biographical experiences, environment, or other local sources of data. As such these states of experience may be considered gateways to transpersonal (beyond-the-personal) information. Although they are often described as mundane intuition or meaningless coincidence, on occasion an experience may arise that breaks our perceptually based assumptions of space and time and that holds a unique capacity to disrupt neat notions of agency and causality. We are forced to think differently, to think transpersonally.

Echoing Einstein’s premise that, “we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them,“ UNAMNESIA launches with the ambition of addressing our era’s many problems by leaning into the creative potential of individuals who think non-ordinarily and transpersonally. History shows that this is the most fertile ground to incubate new solutions. And as all have access to transpersonal experiences, genius is in everyone and in equal quantities.

We invite a community of creatives to develop the language necessary to communicate with these transpersonal sources of inspiration: the Daimon, Muse, Source, Self, as we believe this allows us to remember our innovations in the future and work to realize them in the present. This is the recipe we use to brew our post-modern kykeon.

And seeing as this work has historically been marginalized and deemed heretical, think Giordano Bruno, et al., we aim to build a community that can adequately host such ventures, offering a platform for integration and innovation. With increased personal meaning and purposeful innovation as our clearest end-points, we aim to substantiate the transpersonal, or self-transcendence, not merely as a developmental goal for individuals, but for society and commerce based on a coherent presentation of its intrinsic and extrinsic value. We believe this has the power to solve many intractable problems and ultimately to change the world for the better.

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