Jimo Borjigin

13 articles
IF 1 SC 5 UP 4 HW 3
IF breathwork science

Holotropic Breathwork: Stanislav Grof and the Breath as a Portal to Non-Ordinary Consciousness

In 1975, Stanislav Grof had a problem. The Czech-born psychiatrist, who had conducted some of the most extensive and rigorous research on LSD-assisted psychotherapy in history — over 4,000 supervised sessions during his tenure at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague and later at the...

13 min · 4 researchers · 31 concepts
SC consciousness

DMT: The Spirit Molecule, the Brain's Own Psychedelic, and the Doorway Between Worlds

N,N-Dimethyltryptamine — DMT — is the most potent psychedelic compound known to humanity. When smoked or injected, it launches consciousness into experiences so alien, so ontologically shocking, that even hardened materialist scientists struggle to dismiss them as "just hallucinations."...

10 min · 2 researchers · 18 concepts
SC consciousness

Near-Death Experiences and Shamanic Initiation: When Clinical Death Meets Ancient Ceremony

Here is something that should stop you mid-step: a Dutch cardiologist and a Siberian shaman, separated by five thousand miles and five thousand years of cultural context, are describing the same journey. One speaks in the language of peer-reviewed cardiology journals.

13 min · 9 researchers · 20 concepts
SC consciousness

The DMT-Pineal Connection: The Spirit Molecule Meets the Third Eye

In 2000, a psychiatrist named Rick Strassman published a book called "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" that would ignite one of the most fascinating -- and contentious -- debates in modern neuroscience. The book described his groundbreaking clinical research at the University of New Mexico, where he...

10 min · 2 researchers · 17 concepts
UP death consciousness

DMT and the Chemistry of Dying: The Endogenous Psychedelic at the Threshold of Death

In 1990, Rick Strassman, a psychiatrist at the University of New Mexico, received the first federal approval in over 20 years to administer a psychedelic compound to human subjects. The compound was N,N-dimethyltryptamine — DMT — a molecule so potent that it produces a complete transformation of...

16 min · 3 researchers · 27 concepts
UP death consciousness

The Tibetan Book of the Dead Meets Neuroscience: Ancient Map, Modern Territory

In the 8th century CE, the Indian Buddhist master Padmasambhava composed a text called the Bardo Thodol — "Liberation Through Hearing in the Intermediate State" — known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead. The text is a manual for dying.

15 min · 2 researchers · 13 concepts
SC neurochemistry mystical states

Endogenous DMT and Mystical States: When the Body Produces Its Own Spirit Molecule

N,N-Dimethyltryptamine — DMT — is the most powerful psychedelic compound known to science. When administered intravenously, it produces within seconds an experience that participants consistently describe as the most intense, most profound, and most "real-feeling" event of their lives.

16 min · 3 researchers · 26 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

Light Fasting and Darkness Retreats: How the Absence of Light Activates the Brain's Inner Pharmacy

Every article in this collection describes what light does to the body — how photons charge mitochondria, synthesize vitamin D, set circadian clocks, release nitric oxide, and power the neurochemical pipelines of consciousness. But there is a complementary practice, known across cultures and...

20 min · 3 researchers · 36 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

Red Light Therapy and Mitochondrial Charging: How Photons Become Cellular Power

Every cell in your body runs on a currency called adenosine triphosphate — ATP. Every muscle contraction, every nerve impulse, every protein folded, every memory encoded — all of it costs ATP.

19 min · 1 researchers · 18 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

The Sunlight-to-Consciousness Pipeline: How Photons Become the Molecules of Awareness

There is a biochemical pipeline inside your body that converts photons — particles of light from the sun — into the very molecules that regulate consciousness, mood, sleep, dreams, and mystical experience. This pipeline is not speculative.

19 min · 4 researchers · 33 concepts
UP spiritual practice

Fasting and Vision Quest: Spiritual Technology of Emptying

Every spiritual tradition has discovered the same counterintuitive truth: to be filled, first become empty. To see clearly, first go into darkness.

13 min · 3 researchers · 24 concepts
UP toxicology consciousness

Fluoride and Pineal Calcification: How a Common Water Additive May Be Shutting Down Your Consciousness Hardware

Deep in the geometric center of your brain sits a tiny pine-cone-shaped organ no larger than a grain of rice. The pineal gland — called the "third eye" by virtually every ancient civilization that mapped consciousness — occupies a unique position in human neuroanatomy.

16 min · 3 researchers · 30 concepts
SC tryptamine consciousness

DMT: The Endogenous Spirit Molecule Your Brain Produces Every Day

N,N-Dimethyltryptamine — DMT — occupies a unique position in the landscape of psychedelic compounds. It is the most powerful naturally occurring psychedelic known, producing effects that depart from ordinary consciousness more radically than any other substance.

11 min · 3 researchers · 22 concepts