Worldbuilding neuropsychedelic therapy
This 15 minutes listening experience is split across two layers of sound heard simultaneously while wearing a pair of bone conducting headphones (inner layer) inside a ring of six speakers (outer layer).
This experience is site specific and designed to be heard with this unique dual setup, so its effects cannot be fully recreated on normal stereo speaker or headphone playback. Nonetheless, this recording collapses the two layers into a single stereo recording.
Arrival at the temple
Imagine arriving at a large cube covered in black cloth. Standing like the monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, you walk slowly around trying to comprehend it. Soul Systems welcomes you, asking you to remove your shoes since this is sacred ground.
Imagine then being offered eucalyptus and sandalwood to inhale as you feel the soft turf under the soles of your feet. As you ground yourself, a ‘brain stimulation device’- a pair of bone conducting headphones- is fitted that gradually transports your mind to Solomon’s temple 3,000 years ago.
Immersive storytelling
When ready, you enter the candlelit atmosphere of the golden hall, Hekhal, along the grassy royal carpet towards the throne room, Devir (‘room of words’). You sit on the throne surrounded by a ring of six speakers and enclosed within an inner cube (of acoustic panels that shut out external sounds and reinforce the experience. Your mystical guide poetically narrates as the healing unfolds and the hallucinations begin.
Integrating afterwards
You leave the temple where Soul Systems is ready to help make sense of what you experienced.
“The breathing felt like someone was breathing next to me”
“I experienced a range of physical sensations- hair standing on end, and breath/wind on my face at the start”
“There were moments when I felt as if someone was directly on my shoulders and in my ears”