𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔢 𝔄𝔯𝔱𝔢 𝔬𝔳 𝔚𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔲𝔪𝔬𝔫𝔱

Henosis was a one-to-one role playing excercise in which members of the public were invited to enter into a conversation designed to provoke a mystical experience of universal oneness.

“I am met with an ethereal creature, horns and white outfit/mask, kind eyes and voice, I sit at a table with my guide . . . I speak as this part of self, each time exploring the role played by it being a part of this whole self I inhabit” – Rachel Parry, participant

Henosis is a classical Greek word referring to mystical “oneness” and “union” with the Source, the One, the Monad, “God”, the All, the Universe.

There are many ways in which a person may experience mystical oneness with the All, including but not limited to: meditation, the consumption of entheogenic plants or synthetic hallucinogens, and sensory deprivation. However, it may also be experienced through simply thinking certain thoughts in a certain order. A person may be encouraged to think these thoughts by being prompted by a set of specially designed questions, and thus experience a mystical sense of oneness with the universe; What it feels like to be God.

Special thanks to Denis Poisson. Henosis was adapted and elaborated upon by the artist for performance from an exercise shared by occultist Denis Poisson for his YouTube Channel: Foolish Fish, which was in turn an adaptation of a technique developed by American Zen mystic Dennis Merzel.