Ever since the discovery of the European Paleolithic caves, archaeologists have been wondering about the importance and meaning of such geometric representations. ![]() In a sensational publication, David Lewis-Williams and Thomas Dowson observed that the rock and cave art of the later Paleolithic (about 40,000 to 10,000 BC), the time when man (homo sapiens) developed abstract thinking and art, is characterized by two main themes: vivid depictions of animals on the one hand, geometric figures such as dots, circles, lines, curves etc. In 1988, two South African archaeologists referred to this heritage of the 1960s and 70s when they presented an alternative interpretation of stone age rock art of a certain kind. A worldwide ban on these substances interrupted the drug based research on entoptic phenomena. Especially in the 1960s and 70s, a number of experiments on subjects were conducted using agents such as THC, mescaline, psilocybin and LSD. ![]() To generate and study entoptics, they conducted experiments by stimulating brain and retina, electrically at first, later also with mind-altering substances. In the 19th century, European and American opticians, physiologists and philosophers developed a broad interest in entoptic phenomena. Stone age rock art as entoptic phenomena – a study While the Western medical study of entoptics has a tradition of a couple of hundred years, the interpretation of entoptic phenomena like floaters as spiritually significant perception in connection with altered states of consciousness possibly originated in the early days of human art. As physical and neurological symptoms, they belong to the physicians’ area of study as subjective light phenomena they are likely to gain spiritual meanings for people like Nestor. Entoptic phenomena, whose appearance can be manipulated by selectively induced changes of consciousness states, are objects of interest for both science- and spiritually-oriented researchers. optical phenomena which are caused by certain conditions of the human visual system. In ophthalmology, eye floaters are generally regarded as harmless vitreous opacities. He explains his vision as an extended perception of a phenomenon for which, in ophthalmology, the collective term “floaters” is applied. Nestor, who calls himself a seer, ascribes this subjective visual perception to his long lasting efforts to develop his consciousness. He interprets this phenomenon as a subtle structure formed by our consciousness which in turn creates our material world. ![]() Nestor has a unique and provocative claim: that he focuses for years on a constellation of huge shining spheres and strings which have been formed in his field of vision. In the mid-1990s I met a man named Nestor living in the solitude of the hilly Emmental region of Switzerland.
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