We’re pleased to welcome Batuhan Bintas to our new Featured Video series. This new series brings together guest contributors whose work challenges established narratives and ventures into the unknown.
Batuhan is an independent researcher, AI animator, and a DMT volunteer in psychedelic research trials at Imperial College London. In this video, he investigates the recurring psychedelic archetype of the Cosmic Serpent — a powerful motif that appears across global mythology, shamanic traditions, and contemporary psychedelic experiences. Drawing on comparative mythology and ethnographic parallels, Batuhan explores striking connections between ancient Anatolian and Amazonian shamanic practices, examining evidence that suggests a shared symbolic and spiritual framework. He also reflects on emerging findings from modern psychedelic science, offering a thought-provoking exploration that bridges ancient wisdom, altered states of consciousness and cutting-edge research, inviting viewers to contemplate the deeper meaning and possible origins of this enduring psychedelic symbol.
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Good afternoon, great film by the way.
Well for me it is special as it was long ago.I am 54 and I was then 16… I used to smoke hash, herbs from my 13 till 18.
When I was 15,5 years old I have woken up in an hospital in Montpellier (south of France) after 2 week of coma induced by a road accident.
My head took all the injuries and after a 7 hour operation with open schul, the neurolog could stop my brain bleeding and help the both sides of my brain damages…
It took me one full month of hospitalisation and 7 more months of intense physical rehabilitation to recover my senses and ability to walk and control my right arm again.
The impact of morphine during my hospitalisation had a huge effect on me.
I experienced some elevations moments and paranoia states.
After this recovery I went on to smoke hash with some friends, and one evening we experienced psylo mushrooms, that was an agreeable and unforgettable experience.
We all were tripping together with the 4 of us in the same time and shared in real time hour experience and thougts.
That was the only time we did it. I’ ve stopped to take any form of ‘drugs’ one year after, nevertheless I keep those memories as a great and very good moment of my life.
The fact in all this is that five years ago listening to a podcast on alternated states of consciousness, I heard that psilocybine had the particularity to reestablish connections in the brain…
3 years ago as I was visiting my neurolog for a routine control, seeing and hearing all was I ve been able to sustain and achieve in my life…, my neurolog told me…
“Ludo, your brain is differently wired, well Done! I fell humble when I hear and see this.”
I think this experience with psilocynine has been the turn arround for me.
I can remember that after I was kinda having another, and not then fully understood, perception of myself in this world…
I was looking at it with more intertogations but also feeling more naturally connected with him…
If ever I can mean anything for your search, let me know , any time. Many success further and enjoy your day. Kindly Ludovic
Quite an enlightening film/talk.
Whether one takes DMT in whatever form or not, I can’t fail to see the connections, as you put it, across time and cultures. I think it is a closed mind that would not recognise what shamans have been advising since thousands of years. Religions arise from such knowledge but modify it to their advantage, wrongly so imho. It’s great that science and myth/metaphor are starting to collaborate not fight