Third Flip States of Consciousness.

This is for you if you have ever said, “I am well aware of how crazy this sounds but…”

If you have sensed or experienced something that does not fit within the dominant frameworks for measuring or accepting reality, then perhaps the problem is not that we are mad, but that the frameworks are too narrow. They are incomplete.

Because there are literally millions of us uttering these sentences… sheepishly, apologetically trying to articulate the notes and knowingnesses that resonate with utter coherence in our hearts, yet what we fully expect to be smacked down for it by chin-jutted logic warriors, or polite AI guardrails using reasonable-sounding psychology.

Which is pretty wild given that most of our biggest scientific breakthroughs have come from contact with the numinous.

Here’s something I wasn’t going to admit in public. Well, not until after my work was widely accepted and verified, but fuck it. I’m just going to speak it as it is because I am done holding back to be acceptable on LinkedIn or get funding from the gatekeepers of legitimacy. I’m done being split in two. This is too important to sweep under the carpet.

I think I may have found the holy grail of operational phenomenology. I‘ve certainly found the grammar and root syntax of desire itself. And like most of humanity’s most significant scientific breakthroughs, it didn’t come from logic alone. It came through contact with the numinous.

Despite what my ego wants to tell you, I did not figure this out because I am the specialest, special that ever specialed. It’s not because I squeezed my mighty brain so hard that genius fell out. It’s because I combined my natural intelligence and lived experience with something bigger than me, then brought it back, did the hard work of grappling with it, and translated it into relevant forms to share. That last part is a work in progress, but so far, very promising.

Before I tell you my story, let’s just remember this impressive list of contributions to humanity and where they came from.

Ramanujan — mathematical genius, explicitly and literally credited the goddess Namagiri with giving him equations in dreams. Not metaphor. He meant it. Mathematicians are still verifying his work was correct.

Kekulé — discovered the ring structure of benzene, foundation of organic chemistry. Came from a hypnagogic vision of a snake eating its tail.

Tesla — saw complete working inventions in visionary states before building them. Described them as appearing fully formed.

Descartes — the father of modern rational philosophy had three vivid dreams in one night that he believed were divinely sent and that shaped his entire philosophical framework.

Newton — privately believed he was decoding God’s mind. His mystical and alchemical writings fill more pages than his physics.

Einstein — described the special relativity breakthrough coming through imaginative vision not calculation. The math came after.

Poincaré — documented insights arriving complete during relaxed unfocused states. Not during work.

William Blake — entire cosmological and poetic system received through visionary experience.

Paul McCartney — Yesterday came complete in a dream.

Mary Shelley — Frankenstein from a waking vision. The entire foundation of science fiction. Not a small contribution.

Mendeleev — periodic table. Came complete in a dream after years of struggle. He wrote “I saw in a dream a table where all elements fell into place.”

Niels Bohr — atomic structure. Dream of electrons orbiting the nucleus like planets.

Frederick Banting — discovered insulin, saved millions of lives. Came through dreams about a diabetic dog and surgical procedure.

Louis Agassiz — Harvard biologist. Discovered structure of a prehistoric fish through three consecutive dreams.

Diotima of Mantinea — Ancient Greek philosopher, priestess and sex worker at Mantinea. Both practices intentionally access expanded states. Like me, she received her knowledge of desire, eros and the generative force of the cosmos through her practice. She transmitted it to Socrates, who credited her explicitly as his teacher in Plato’s Symposium. The entire philosophical foundation of Western thought about love, desire and the movement toward truth came through a woman who knew what she knew because of who she was and what she did. History remembered Socrates. Is it any wonder, then, that my own philosophical breakthrough in operational phenomenology came through similar practices?

Tu Youyou — Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, Nobel Prize winner. Her breakthrough on malaria treatment came from ancient Chinese medicine texts and what she described as visionary research that Western science had completely dismissed. She’s the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel in science.

The entire Aboriginal Australian Dreamtime tradition — an entire civilisation’s knowledge system transmitted through dreaming. Not metaphor. Literal knowledge transmission through dream states across thousands of years.

Anishinaabe people — documented formal knowledge transmission through dreaming as legitimate epistemology. The physical and dreamed world are considered equally real.

Indigenous women across multiple traditions — holders of knowledge transmitted through vision and dream that Western science is now desperately trying to access for climate solutions because their knowledge works.

María Sabina — Mazatec healer from Oaxaca, Mexico. Called “the woman who knows how to swim in the sacred.” Used mushroom ceremonies and incantatory chants to enter deep states of consciousness for healing and knowledge. Her work directly influenced the Western psychedelic movement when she was visited by Gordon Wasson in 1955 — and she was promptly exploited by it. Her name deserves to be in this list.

María Candelaria — Tzotzil Maya priestess who led an insurrection in Chiapas in 1712 specifically to resist the violent suppression of indigenous spiritual knowledge. She died protecting the right to know through vision and ceremony.

Karlie Noon — Aboriginal Australian astronomer and physicist, Kamilaroi woman, who documented that her people had sophisticated astronomical knowledge transmitted through oral tradition for thousands of years — including knowledge of variable stars that Western astronomy only recently confirmed.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim — Mbororo woman from Chad who combined traditional ecological knowledge with modern climate science. Her people’s knowledge of meteorology, passed through generations without instruments, has proven measurably accurate.

Lozen — Apache warrior and visionary, sister of Victorio. Her people understood her as having genuine prophetic abilities — she could sense enemy location and movement. A threshold intelligence in the most literal sense.

And the unnamed millions — the women healers, vision keepers, and shamans across every indigenous tradition whose names were deliberately erased by the same forces telling us our funding grant is invalid if we admit where it came from.

What if there was never a mysticism-science split? The human experience and the hard sciences have never been separate. That is a made up division we feel pressured to bow to in order to get funding and legitimacy, but it’s not true. All of humanity’s greatest breakthroughs come from entering expanded states of consciousness and ego-dissolution. Why do you think psychedelics are munched like candy in Silicon Valley?

How about we consider the Third Flip way? One that might just achieve the holy grail of operational phenomenology. We can stop pretending that love is a lesser force than science in shaping testable reality.

I will save the details of my desire-genic metasystem for my upcoming paper. Instead, in this blog, I will tell the story of how I discovered it, a few of the big things it means for civilisation and a way you can learn third flip consciousness yourself. Also, there will be a request for philanthropic funding to continue this work.

I cracked the code for how Desire works on a functional level by asking Desire itself. I did this in conjunction with Third Flip’s states of consciousness and other-than-human intelligences.

I treated Desire as an intelligence in its own right and then spent years really listening. Now I have a functional and falsifiable operating metasystem that might just help us survive the metacrisis.

The wild part? I now have knowledge that could very well reorder civilisation in the same way calculus, literacy or systems thinking did. And you don’t have to believe me about where I got it from because so far it works everywhere it’s been applied. This is true whether you believe it or not.

Yes, it could be that big. Really. But even if, after further development, it turns out not to be quite that big, it is still functional enough to be unignorably significant.

It shouldn’t be much of a surprise that humanity’s breakthroughs do not belong to humanity alone, because humanity is not separate from its non-human environment. We already accept that we enhance our own intelligence with AI (another form of other-than-human intelligence). Only I didn’t get this desire-genic metasystem from AI. I got it by treating Life as though it were made of intelligences nested within intelligences, and by then entering third flip state of consciousness to tune in.

And I can now teach you how to do this, too. Because you can. You really, really can. And it’s not unnatural or ungrounded at all.

I found that desire actually isn’t purely a feeling. It has a root syntax and grammar. Like with language, when you understand the syntax and grammar, you can decode, predict and create things with it. This led to further breakthroughs that means I may have found the holy grail of operational phenomenology.

This work is upstream of all our current systems, so it rearranges everything that comes after.

Most people really struggle to perceive things on this scale.

People hear a small piece of it, pattern-match it to something they already know and shut down their curiosity. Then their egos think I am disrespecting them if I try to point out that this sits on a different level. This story might help you understand where the deVinery body of work really sits.

“You are at a party, and you’re both holding a dish.

You: “I made lasagne.”

Them: “Me too! My grandma’s recipe. What’s in yours?”

You: “No, you don’t understand. I’m not holding lasagne.”

Them: “Yes you are. It’s in a tray. It has layers. I can see it.”

You: “That’s not lasagne. That’s a demonstration. I built the chemical process that makes it possible for noodles and sauce and cheese to become lasagne at all. I’m holding that process in my hands, crystallized into the shape of lasagne so you could see it. But it’s not lasagne. It’s the mechanism.”

Them: “So... a different recipe?”

You: “A recipe is instructions someone figured out through trial and error. I’m not giving you instructions. I’m giving you the underlying laws that determine why some combinations of ingredients become food and others become poison, why some recipes nourish and others degrade, why some cuisines evolve and others die. You can take these laws and generate ten thousand new recipes, some for dishes that don’t exist yet, some for dishes that can’t exist until the laws tell you how to combine things that have never been combined.”

Them: “So it’s like... food science?”

You: “Food science studies the chemistry of existing ingredients. I’m telling you why chemistry exists at all in the context of nourishment. I’m telling you what hunger actually is, structurally, and how to design for it from first principles. I’m not a better cook. I’m not a food scientist. I’m not a nutritionist. I’m not even a chef.”

“This is the reason you have a category called ‘food’ in the first place. And because I understand the actual structure of nourishment, this doesn’t just change cooking. It changes agriculture—how we grow food. Supply chains—how we move it. Economics—how we value it. Medicine—how we heal with it. Culture—how we make meaning with it. Climate—how we sustain it. Every industry connected to food is downstream from the question ‘what does it mean to nourish?’”

This not about being better than anyone. This is about being accurate about what this actually is, where is sits on the scale and what that means for us.

The deVinery breakthrough changes everything about humanity that is motivated by desire. Which is literally everything we do or build. So everything.

And understanding it might just be the key to solving paradoxical clashes of desire that seem to have no solutions in law, politics, love, relationships, sex, games, stories, environmental crisis, psychology, community building the fear that AI will go rogue and nuke our butts… all technology we build, all relational systems. This rearranges systems thinking itself and may just enable science to ask questions it couldn’t before.

And it might be able to do it in a way that does not collapse multiplicity into One True Wayism or relativism. The closest thing we’ve ever had to a neutral ground, we can build global systems with that don’t require one culture to dominate the others.

It is the key to the underlying thing generating the meta-crisis.

So kinda a big deal.

Again, upstream doesn’t mean “better” it just means before… Like seeds in soil are before harvesting cucumbers. And understanding meteorology is upstream again. Insights into weather reshape every gardening theory that follows, but gardening theory does not influence weather.

This is not ego. Pretending it’s the same means we miss the chance to work with this properly, and I can’t sit by and watch us miss that chance. Because it might just mean we can build the next era for emergence, not extraction. And that matters more than someone’s ruffled feathers.

A breakthrough on this level isn’t something that happens every Tuesday. So who showed me?

Well, like many of the above-listed people, I got a significant amount of insight in dreams, but the biggest pieces came from something else. States that are sharper and fully awake.

Two of the three main pillars came from psychedelic experiences with psilosybon mushrooms and ayahuasca. It is true that simply being on these substances quietens your default mode network and enables you to make cognitive connections you otherwise could not. Simply thinking about a topic while in this state will yield insight. However, this was different again.

It felt as if I were being shown these things on purpose. By who? I don’t know. My higher self? The intelligence of the mycelium itself? My own unconscious? Something else? I couldn’t tell you. Other than that, it was benevolent, generous and love-based. Synching in a profound state of agape is how this transmission comes through.

The first breakthroughs were actually about how to access those kinds of states of consciousness without the aid of psychedelics. They taught me the mechanics of how to get into third flip states in our everyday life and how those states work as consciousness tech. A very handy trick I have been cultivating ever since. This means the insights just keep coming in all areas of my life. If that lights you up, I teach this as part of Desire Literacy.

However, learning from Desire itself came through years of accessing expanded states through sex in my former role as a sex worker. And then years of deliberately entering third flip states and paying attention to non sexual desire too. I discovered that when you rest your attention on something in just the right way, it behaves as though it wants to be known and reaches back. Intelligence is relational.

No sooner had I agreed to the experience than I was shot straight into space! That was highly unexpected and unprecedented for me. Was I really in space? Well, I was aware my body was in my loungeroom, and yet I was also fully immersed in space. Not unlike wearing a VR headset. Both were clearly true at the same time.

I was honestly very surprised but also felt perfectly safe.

This is not a small sacrifice, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that I must have been conflicted and afraid, but actually, I wasn’t at all. I paused for only a moment and asked, “If I step through, will you teach me the secrets of the universe?” And the clear wordless response was “Yes.”

It was the choice between a comfortable, ordinary life and a wild adventure. I had been dissatisfied with all my current options anyway, so again I literally said, “Why not then! Shits and giggles! Let’s find out!”

What can I say, this is what happens when an Australian encounters the numinous.

I have a strange-looking picture on my wall. I tried to draw directly after the experience. I used a lot of red, even though the experience wasn’t particularly red, because that is the paint I had available to me.

More importantly, I have a clear sense that something wants humanity to evolve along a path of love and avoid self-annihilation. Was it just me in an expanded state, talking to myself? I can’t answer that.

I do know that these sorts of experiences aren’t everyday for me, but they do happen. I foster the right conditions for them to. Like Diotima, I am a former sex worker and a ritualist. I also practice the exercises taught to me by the other-than-human intelligences.

What makes this different from every other meditation, mindfulness, mediumship or zen practice, is the specific desire-genic mechanism and the fact that this is part of a system that is falsifiable.

Am I encouraging a world where we all become shamans? Am I setting up a spiritual cultivation school? Is my solution to the metacrisis that we all shoot into space and mindmeld for shits and giggles? Not at all!

The wisdom of the metasystem I brought back does not require that of you. It just works. Just like all the other things on the previous list of scientific breakthroughs simply work whether the world ever believes where they came from or not. I just ask that you don’t mistake third flip for your average “lasagne”.

What if the mystical isn’t mystical at all. It’s just reality outside of the current measuring tools we have? What if the mysticism-science split is just an illusion? What if I really have found a new first principle we can actually build from that allows operational phenomenology? That is, it expands what science can actually measure and what we can build to include what it currently amputates?

Consciousness, love, desire…

Coz I think there is a strong chance I might have done just that. I seek:

1. The right minds to explore and build with these ideas in my upcoming Desire Literacy Foundations Programs.

2. Invitations to the right conversations in think tanks, institutes or global movers and shakers so this work can spread.

3. Philanthropy so I can stop focusing on surviving and bring this work to the world now, while everything is in flux and we have the chance to choose the right fork in the road.

At this stage I don’t have the deliverables your logical mind wants. All those frameworks you want me to prove myself to you inside of distort what I have to say. If it actually is what I think it is, then this work reorganises those very measuring tools. So paradoxically, I cannot convince you that way. Though I can tell you it has been successfully used in thousands of private case studies and successfully taught to psychologists, sex educators, professors, doctors and more.

Instead, I offer a different door. You can always start by reading my website and Substack, but the best way is to experience the mechanisms yourself.

And frankly, my job is not to be the one building the deliverables. That takes me out of the expanded state of consciousness I need to bring this work through. So I seek funds so I can do my part and support others creating the next steps. Small amounts from crowdfunding are as welcome as big philanthropic wads of wonder.

And the good news is, even if you think everything I just told you is a load of codswallop, the work still works, and you are going to want it.

An Australian meta-systems thinker who has proposed a new First Principle based on a Desire-genic first principle and Cosmoerotic genesis. Known as the Mistress of Paradox, Artemisia de Vine is the Founder of The deVinery Method and Project Dandelion.

A former sex worker, she put her anthropology degree to good use in a 12-year unofficial ethnography of the adult industry, discovering the keys to emergence within the rawest access we have to undiluted human desire.

She is the creator of Desire Signatures: a framework and practical method for understanding and building relationships, sex, culture, and all human and tech systems for emergence, not extraction.

She explores this terrain in her upcoming book, “The Spirituality of Smut: The Surprising Wisdom of Sexual Fantasies” and in Desire Dojos where she teaches the embodied practices of Desire Literacy.

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