Researcher | Author | Expert on Psychedelics, Consciousness, and Anomalous Experience

About

Dr. Pascal Michael is a researcher and author working at the intersection of psychedelic science, consciousness studies, and anomalous experience. His work focuses on the profound and often destabilizing experiences that occur at the edges of ordinary human consciousness — encounters with entities, ego dissolution, near-death states, and what the research community is beginning to call 'exceptional experiences.' He approaches these phenomena with both scientific rigor and genuine openness, refusing to dismiss what cannot yet be explained and refusing to over-interpret what might have mundane explanations. His 2026 presentations at CITD tackle two of the most challenging frontiers in the field: the relationship between psychedelics and disclosure, and the therapeutic integration of anomalous experience.

Sessions at CITD 2026

[PANEL]

Psychedelic Gateways: Entities, Realms, and The Expanded Mind

Hosted by Paul Hynek. A wide-ranging panel on how psychedelic states intersect with contact experiences, entity encounters, and expanded consciousness.

[WORKSHOP]

Mending the Cosmic Egg: Challenging Exceptional Experiences, Models, & Modalities to Put Humpty Together Again

A workshop on integrating and making meaning from exceptional and anomalous experiences — for researchers, experiencers, and therapists.

[LECTURE]

Neuro-revelation: Psychedelics as Agents of Disclosure

An examination of the evidence that psychedelic compounds may function as tools for encountering genuine non-human intelligences — and what that means for both neuroscience and the UAP conversation.