Phenomenological Considerations for Exceptional Human Experiences and Communication with Non-Human Intelligences
At its broadest, exceptional human experiences (EHEs) describe events in one's life extending beyond the spatial and temporal stratum of human perception. Once considered esoteric, anomalous, or non-corresponsive to reality, EHEs are self-reported by an overwhelming majority (>96%) of people independent of socioeconomic background or beliefs (Wahbeh et al., 2018; Sagher et al., 2019). Contemporary academic literature surrounding the topic of exceptional human experiences tends to focus on observable, material experiences themselves – such as near-death experiences, psychokinesis, precognition, and/or remote viewing – rather than the psychospiritual processes from where they emerge.
The original author who coined the term, Rhea A. White (1998) believed the value of human experiences deemed exceptional were to be better understood within one’s evolving awareness over the course of one’s life. This more nuanced and potentially valuable view for psychology has largely not been reflected in emerging academic literature, which has opted instead for more superficial assessment of isolated and/or controlled experimentation and quantitative digital survey analysis. More subtle, mental, and phenomenologically rich EHEs such as telepathy and encounters with non-human intelligence are largely ignored in mainstream peer-reviewed publications today, yet they are nearly universally experienced at some point in one’s lifetime, either seemingly spontaneously or through conscious intention.
Exceptional human awareness arises through exceptional human conditions
The overall gestalt of psychospiritual transformation and human experiences deemed exceptional is this: whether acute or gradual, an individual has a deep, life-changing direct experience that permanently shifts one’s understanding of the nature of reality and oneself (e.g., as singular, nonlocal, undifferentiated/universal, nondual, etc.). The feeling experienced within these moments tend to be extraordinary unconditional love. At this point of direct experience, expressions of these principles may thus present themselves to the experiencer as “exceptional” experiences. These may include communications with angelic, extraterrestrial, and/or other non-human intelligences; telepathy; precognition; psychokinesis; memories from previous lives; cellular, planetary, or extended cosmic awareness; and/or many other domains of transpersonal human experience. Either imminently in real-time or over time, as the individual integrates his/her experiences and their mechanisms become revealed, thus informing one of his/her conscious worldview. The veridical (correspondent to reality) nature of these experiences may become substantiated through conscious reproducibility of such human experiences. This is a basic principle of learning and is of particular interest for communications-based (i.e., telepathic) experiences, as communication allows for external validation as well as agile real-time feedback for learning improvement in efficacy and complexity, much like the classical Zener card tests for extrasensory perception (ESP) whereby a participant guesses the content of a card either known to an operator or concealed (laser physicist and ESP research pioneer Russell Targ [2017] developed under NASA and Stanford Research Institute a mobile app to “train” ESP awareness using this method).
This interpretive sequence of events mirrors my own in my evolving direct experience of “exceptional” human experiences. As a teenager, I had an acute car wreck that facilitated in me a near-death experience. In the moment of imminent death, subjective time perception suspended and I encountered and was protectively held by an “angelic” or higher consciousness, differentiated being who telepathically communicated to me that “everything [was] going to be okay, this is not your time.” Following the material sequence of events, I walked out of the wreckage without a single scratch and never experienced even the slightest muscle trauma. Instead, I felt subjectively transcended into a state of bliss and permanently rose above any fear of death.
At exactly double this age, through meditation practice I organically experienced a second conscious awareness shift sharing the same phenomenological characteristics of directly experiencing profound cosmological singularity, one which encompassed the differentiated psychological self with an undifferentiated, universal consciousness. This was an operable awareness of what Jung (2018) referred to as unus mundus. This became particularly important for this autobiographical integration because the organic (i.e., non-acute) nature of the experience married with an intention-directed telepathic exchange with non-human intelligence that in the years to come would become personally verified by subsequent telepathic exchanges with material artifacts of engagement both among humans and by definition extraterrestrial intelligences, and correlated with deep engagement among social networks in military, intelligence, and aerospace communities including but not limited to executive NASA personnel, R&D staff within Lockheed Martin and multiple aerospace startups, and foreign and domestic Departments and Ministries of Defense.
Fig. 1: Original photographs, extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) conscious communication (by quadrant): Socorro (Q1), Mount Hood (Q2), Aspen (Q3), Crestone (Q4)
In short, contact over the years with non-human intelligences both mentally (nonlocally) and materially (locally) has provided me an applied context to rapidly learn exceptional, nonlocal mental mechanisms and the significantly vast communicative potential of human consciousness. As these experiences deepened, so too did they extend into varying expressions and qualities based upon conscious intention, such as psychokinesis (mind-matter interaction). I further verified the veridical nature of these experiences by “teaching” others how to consciously influence material through intention using a variety of targets, such as influencing behavior of inert physical objects, and even influencing desired molecular changes in water (reproducing Dibble & Tiller’s [1999] PK experiments with pH levels) and local electromagnetic radiation from nominal background levels. Similarly, I have also engaged with others in successful telepathic trials through which ideas and even memories have been successfully “transmitted” and “received” between emotionally bonded humans.
As interesting and enticing mind-matter interaction is from an engineering perspective, the purely psychological aspects of telepathy, particularly with non-human intelligences, have consistently proven the most interesting, elegant, and even altruistic toward the expansion of human potential at the personal individual level. For this reason, it naturally follows, this would be the domain of “exceptional” human experience in which my own experience has and continues to evolve most effortlessly. This is the domain of EHEs that will be the remaining focus of this integration-oriented paper, as it has been the substance of my integrations over the last season.
Unconditional love is the human foundation for exceptional human experiences
In recent years, researchers have begun to sense into potential relationships between felt qualities of psychospiritual transformation and discrete types of identified exceptional human experiences. Mossbridge et al. (2020) found that participants in precognitive remote viewing trials demonstrated far greater efficacy and accuracy who self-reported experiencing feelings of self-transcendence and unconditional love. This was later reproduced and confirmed by Mossbridge (2023). Although it feels intuitively true, very little other extant research exists specific to this aspect of human psychic capabilities among those who self-report having exceptional human experiences.
Such has been the case for me, from my near-death experience in adolescence to later psychospiritual transformations that have initiated intimate understandings of “psychic” functioning and related exceptional human experiences. Of particular interest here is the domain of communication with non-human intelligences, which has been a central feature within all my own experiences deemed “exceptional.
Near-death brought my awareness into communion and communication with an "angelic" intelligence who I felt protected my physical body during extraordinary physical circumstances. Advancement in psychospiritual evolution via meditation coupled with contact with extraterrestrial intelligences (ETIs), each personally veridical experience correlating with artifacts such as stunning photographs and phenomenological sensory experiences. And over time, the informational depth and nature of such experiences become known as psychically “deep” experiences integrate into the evolving psyche of the conscious mind.
Wherein I may only speak for my own experiences, a natural feature of psychospiritual evolution becomes a deepening awareness of seemingly acausal events, both within the individual’s lived psychic experiences and of those around him/her. Intimately, unconditional love has been an essential quality of such moments and their experiences. It is through unconditional love that conscious awareness becomes capable of experiencing psychic events that are innately nondual, that is, transcendental in nature.
It is important here not to get lost in intellectual concepts of reducibility. All that is required to facilitate a “psychic” event such as telepathy is to couple becoming aware of being aware with having a purely loving intention, and in the case of telepathic communication, having someone to communicate with. As one becomes more deeply aware of being aware, the experiencer no longer relies upon an “object” to have awareness “of.” Subjectively, this quality of awareness is synonymous with unconditional love. It is so simple, and of course, it has to be.
Informally speaking, as I become more comfortable within this awareness and stable in sustaining it, personally I have discovered that one is always telepathic all the time. Experiences deemed exceptional simply become known as essential features of what it means to be intelligent and awake. Qualities of one’s being – e.g., human or non-human, biological or otherwise – become secondary characteristics and functionally irrelevant to the efficacy, meaning, or depth of the experience.
As awareness deepens and sustains through my psychospiritual journey, synchronistic or acausally connected events increase in daily life and blend in infinitely complex and beautiful ways. However one categorizes this domain of exceptional human experiences, it is overwhelmingly common, psychospiritually transformative and often life changing to the experiencer, and thus deserves close attention to be better understood. As one expands one’s awareness into deeper realms of consciousness, transcending self and even our sense of humanity, the bonds that unite us become ever more elegant, meaningful, beautiful, and directly experiential. As for the morals and ethics of seriously studying non-human intelligences, Kwon et al. (2018) found that overall, individuals self-report to react favorably to the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Given the increasing global phenomenon of human-ETI contact and its overwhelmingly positive psychospiritual impacts upon experiencers, I expect to continue to see this subject elevate from institutional prejudice and ridicule toward true frontiers in psychology and allied sciences in the 21st century, particularly as current events and corresponding discourse demand it.
Concluding remarks
Within our most intimate inner realms of psychospiritual experiences uniting consciousness and cosmos – wherein all is singular and thus shared – it becomes normal that one capably accesses nonlocal information (e.g., ESP) and interacts with cosmic intelligence (e.g., telepathy) naturally, automatically, and independently of conventional space-time matrix duality. There is nothing exotic, conditional, or otherwise separate inherent in these experiential realms. In a consciousness-forward paradigm, what one perhaps naïvely today calls exceptional becomes organic, if not fundamental. Over time, human experiences once deemed exceptional become integrated into everyday life as one’s nominal awareness expands to accommodate the depth of one’s conscious experiences. As this integration of the exceptional deepens, life becomes increasingly enchanted. Even the most mundane task becomes more purely psychic, and “exceptional” experiences, such as telepathy, become more natural and their utility more advanced. As one navigates one’s life, in this deepening awareness, one may recognize acausal connections more clearly, through unconditional love open to the boundlessness in which all communication becomes possible, and remember more vividly our psychospiritual encounters. As one progresses in one’s transformational psychospiritual journey of awareness, all such exceptional, psychic experiences merely become wondrous nuances of everyday life in an extraordinary, beautiful, loving, and intelligent living cosmos.
Fig. 2: Original photograph, ETI contact 4/5/25 while completing this reflection
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