The Domed Cathedral

✦What happens there

The stage for entity contact and the 'performance,' with an atmosphere of sacredness, grandeur, and ceremony — the sense of having arrived somewhere built for a purpose.

✦Description

A vast, often domed or vaulted interior of impossible scale — cathedral, temple, opera house, or palace. McKenna's canonical breakthrough scene: 'tastefully soffited indirect lighting, and the crawling geometric hallucinations along the domed walls.'

✦Further notes from the corpus

The Hyperspace Lexicon records 'The Dahh': the sudden sense of inhabiting 'a sacred cathedral, huge, yet invisible,' with holy reverberation. St John describes the vaulted dome as 'a revered space; the ultimate destination' reached after a fantastic passage — one account gives a solid-red vaulted ceiling over a dull grey floor populated by abstract entities performing magical demonstrations. A Nexus locations report adds 'The Golden Cathedral…complete with the most beautiful music.' McKenna's dome has walls 'crawling with geometric hallucinations…iridescent with deep sheens,' everything 'machine-like and polished and throbbing with energy.'

✦What the sources say

'the tastefully soffited indirect lighting, and the crawling geometric hallucinations along the domed walls.'

Hyperspace 'contains massive or even infinitely large cathedrals, machine-scapes or abstract spaces made of geometric patterns.'

Cross-substance ayahuasca phenomenology repeatedly yields celestial and temple-like architecture.

Lexicon 'The Dahh' (invisible sacred cathedral with holy reverb); locations thread 'Golden Cathedral' with music.

The vaulted dome as revered ultimate destination; red-vaulted dome account with demonstration-performing entities.

Dome interior: brightly colored crawling geometry, polished machine-like surfaces throbbing with energy.