A request: will you share my writing—Dispatches from the Deep Field— with your communities?
As a thank you, I'll share a little book I wrote called My Journey Companion
Greetings, friends!
I’d love your help spreading the word about my writing, which I share every few weeks in my newsletter called Dispatches from the Deep Field.
Every word I write comes from deep within. No GPT, no LLM, just me, and whatever is lighting me up inside. That often means psychedelics, coaching, research, and what it feels like to be human at this strange moment in history.
If my writing resonates, it would mean so much to me if you invited your community to subscribe.
As a thank you, I’ll share with you a little book I wrote called My Journey Companion, which will help you prepare for and integrate your psychedelic journeys.
Just send the link below in a text or email, or share it on socials, then I’ll email you the little book.
In case you’re wondering about the name of this newsletter—Dispatches from the Deep Field—it’s inspired by the story of a Hubble space telescope image called The Deep Field, which fills me with awe and reminds me that there’s magic everywhere, often where we least expect it.
Here’s the story: After the Hubble launched in 1990, astronomers wanted to point it at particular things, like stars, galaxies, and planets. But one group wanted to point it at the blackest part of the cosmos. Their proposal was rejected time and again. Why waste precious telescope time photographing blackness? After five years, they prevailed. Sure enough, what the Hubble witnessed wasn’t emptiness at all—it was a staggering explosion of galaxies:
So impressed was the astronomy community that they decided to do it again, though this time, they pointed the Hubble at the blackest part of space within the Deep Field. The same thing happened: another explosion of galaxies. That image became known as the Ultra Deep Field.
About 30 years later, NASA launched a newer, far more sophisticated telescope called the James Webb Space Telescope. Guess what the JWST’s first-ever released image was? It’s own version of The Deep Field.
If you’re wondering why the image looks distorted, well, get this: it’s because of something mind-blowing called gravitational lensing. Here’s the idea. The gravity of really heavy things bends light. If light gets bent enough, and at just the right angle, light itself becomes a magnifying glass. In this image, the clever folks at NASA used an entire freaking galaxy to bend incoming light and allow us to see deeper into the outermost reaches of the universe.
Thank you in advance for sharing my work!
In awe of the miracle of consciousness,
Joshua