Author | Consciousness Researcher | Expert on Altered States and Non-Ordinary Reality

About

Anthony Peake is a British author and researcher who has spent two decades building one of the most original and rigorous theories of consciousness and non-ordinary experience in the field. His books — including Is There Life After Death?, The Daemon, and Opening the Doors of Perception — draw on neurology, quantum physics, philosophy, and direct experiential accounts to argue that human consciousness is far stranger and more powerful than mainstream science acknowledges. His theory of Cheating the Ferryman proposes that consciousness does not end at death but experiences a replay of life within a subjective time dilation — a framework that has influenced researchers across multiple disciplines. His work on hypnagogia — the transitional state between waking and sleeping — has positioned him as a leading expert on altered states and the gateways they provide to non-ordinary reality. He is one of CITD's most prolific contributors, presenting across lectures, workshops, panels, and intensives.

Sessions at CITD 2026

[PANEL]

Psychedelic Gateways: Entities, Realms, and The Expanded Mind

Hosted by Paul Hynek.

[WORKSHOP]

Alien Communications Across the Dimensions

A workshop exploring the mechanisms and modalities through which non-human intelligences appear to communicate with human consciousness — and practical frameworks for engaging with those communications.

[LECTURE]

One Universe or Many?

A lecture on the multiverse hypothesis and its implications for consciousness, contact, and the nature of reality.

[PANEL]

Glitches in the Matrix: Questioning the Nature of Reality

Hosted by Paul Hynek.

[INTENSIVE]

Hypnagogia: Opening the Doors of Perception

A half-day intensive on the hypnagogic state — the threshold between waking and sleep where the boundary between consensus reality and non-ordinary experience dissolves. Practical techniques for entering, sustaining, and working within this state.