Autonomous Entities and Visible Language
From the public record
Where this comes from
- Kind of claim: Ontological. The forms indicate something real outside the observer.
- Framework by: Terence McKenna
- Applied to this phenomenon by: DMT Code editors (2026)
- Written about this phenomenon: no. This framework was built for another purpose and is applied here by this site. Its author made no claim about a laser.
The DMT space is inhabited by intelligences that present self-transforming visual objects which behave like language. In this reading the symbols are not code but communication.
Terence McKenna described machine elves offering objects that were simultaneously visual and linguistic, and argued the state points to a genuinely other order of mind. Applied to the laser phenomenon, this reading treats recurring glyphs as vocabulary from a sender rather than structure from a substrate. It predicts symbols should behave socially, responding to attention and intention, which observers sometimes report and skeptics attribute to projection.
Source: The Archaic Revival (1991) (book)
Tags: entities, communication