In this episode of The Cult of You, I interview Dr. Carl Johan Calleman, a PhD in physical biology and author of The Quantum Science of Psychedelics. What follows is a journey into a visionary cosmology where neuroscience, ancient mysticism, and quantum reality converge. Calleman offers a groundbreaking synthesis of science and spirituality through the lens of the Mayan calendar system—reframing consciousness, psychedelics, and human evolution.
“We are not spiritual to escape the world—we are spiritual to birth a new one.”
The ninth wave doesn’t separate—it unifies. It doesn’t judge—it heals.”
The Mayan calendar is a multidimensional quantum system, not a single doomsday clock—each wave reflects a quantum shift in consciousness.
Consciousness evolves in waves—from matter to biology, ego, technology, and ultimately unity.
The ego is not a flaw, but a necessary stage—it built civilization, but now it must be purified for the next level of evolution.
Psychedelics don’t create visions; they dissolve the ego structure, revealing underlying geometries of the mind and cosmos.
Geometry downloads from the Tree of Life shape culture, technology, and biology through each wave.
The ninth wave is now active, calling humanity toward unity consciousness and global healing.
Science and spirituality must unify—the Tree of Life, sacred geometry, and quantum theory all point to a singular cosmic architecture.
“Every sacred tradition speaks of the Tree of Life because it’s a real axis of the cosmos.”
“Psychedelics don’t take you somewhere new—they take you back to how your mind was before ego.”
Calleman dismantles the common misconception of a single Mayan calendar. Instead, he introduces a multidimensional time-structure composed of nine waves, each governing a stage of cosmic and biological evolution. Unlike the linear Gregorian system, these calendars reflect quantum states of consciousness, layered atop one another like a cosmic symphony.
He emphasizes the ninth wave, active since 2011, which aligns with unity consciousness—a non-dual perception of reality that heals the fractured ego-mind fostered by earlier developmental waves. These waves aren’t metaphorical. Calleman connects them with historical epochs, developmental stages of the human psyche, and physical structures like pyramids which encode their frequencies.
Tracing humanity’s journey, Calleman explores how earlier waves created physical matter, single-celled life, animals, and eventually Homo sapiens. Around 100,000 years ago, the fifth wave began stimulating spiritual and symbolic creativity—early cave paintings and ochre rituals. Then came the sixth wave, which introduced duality and ego. It seeded the rise of civilizations like Egypt and Mesopotamia, as humans began downloading a more geometric, ordered mental framework from the cosmos.
Here, Calleman offers a compelling claim: civilization emerged not through slow development, but sudden mental shifts caused by geometric downloads from the Tree of Life. These downloads were visible in pyramid-building, the invention of writing, and systems of governance—all emerging simultaneously around the globe.
A particularly fascinating segment reframes the biblical serpent and Yahweh conflict as a symbolic description of this mental transition. Calleman suggests Yahweh represents the birth of the ego-mind, rejecting the older serpent deities who symbolized unity and shamanic consciousness. This ideological split catalyzed the dominance of dualism in religion and culture.
The serpent, once a revered creator archetype (as in Quetzalcoatl or the Rainbow Serpent), was demonized by emerging monotheistic ideologies. Yet, as Calleman notes, the ego was a necessary stage—bringing with it creativity, technology, and power—but now must be transcended.
Here the conversation turns mystical. Calleman explains that psychedelics don’t merely “cause” visions—they momentarily disengage the egoic geometries of the sixth wave, allowing the practitioner to access the pre-dual state of earlier consciousness. The fractals and sacred geometries seen in psychedelic visions reflect this dissolution of linear mind patterns and access to the cosmic architecture beneath.
Calleman posits that the Tree of Life is a real physical axis in the universe, discovered in part through cosmic background radiation studies. From this center, quantum waves emanate like serpents, transmitting the geometries that shape human perception and evolution.
In closing, Calleman urges that we stand at a crossroads. The ninth wave calls for the integration of science, mysticism, and healing into a collective evolution. True healing, he says, is not individual alone—it’s cosmic. Healers and seekers are invited to align with the ninth wave, not to glorify spiritual ego, but to become instruments of planetary coherence.
“We’re solving the struggle between separation and unity. We’re not only establishing rapport with each other—but with the universe itself.”
Carl Johan Calleman, is a toxicologist as well as an author and speaker on the millenarian New Age interpretation of the Mayan calendar known as Mayanism.
“The serpent wasn’t evil—it was the creator god, until ego made it otherwise.”
“Geometry is not just math—it’s the architecture of consciousness.”
“Civilizations didn’t evolve—they downloaded mental structures from the Tree of Life.”
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