Molecular Physicist Visualised The Process of Dying | David Glowacki
If you want to know more about Numadelic VR: https://www.numadeliclabs.org/ David Glowacki is a cross-disciplinary researcher and artist who founded the ‘Intangible Realities Laboratory’ (IRL) in Spain, focusing on open-source research at the immersive frontiers of technology and science. One of Glowacki’s projects at IRL has been to translate his own near-death experience into an intersubjective VR experience.
A 2020 study showed that the VR phenomenology Glowacki constructed induced peak mystical-type experiences similar to near-death and psychedelic experiences. In this conversation with Hans Busstra, Glowacki explains how his VR work induces mystical-type experiences and how it led him to develop fascinating new visual metaphors for non-duality.
Central to Glowacki’s VR experience is the notion that our material bodies are mental models—models that may be more accurately visualized as energy. In doing so, Glowacki creates an aesthetic effect at the intersection of physics and spirituality, which conveys the fundamentally unbounded, non-local, and omnipresent nature of who we are.
David Glowacki’s personal website: https://glow-wacky.com/
Intangible Realities Lab: https://www.intangiblerealitieslab.org
Scientific publications on Glowacki’s VR phenomenology:
Vidal, J., Andreu, C. I., Wrzesien, M., Colombo, D., Wall, J., Glowacki, D. R., Hardy, J. L., & Cebolla, A. (2025). Inducing selflessness through a numadelic virtual reality experience: A preliminary study. Virtual Reality, 30(1), 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-025-01293-z
D. R. Glowacki, M. D. Wonnacott, R. Freire, B. R. Glowacki, E. M. Gale, J. E. Pike, T. de Haan, M. Chatziapostolou, O. Metatla, “Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics”, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00940
0:00 Introduction
03:28 David on the near-death experience that led to the VR experience he created
09:02 The darkness is full of light
17:40 Matter is just frozen light
23:53 Analysing means “cutting up”: what science kills in this process
27:49 The spiritual definition of energy vs. the physics definition of energy
32:24 What is model fluidity and why is it important?
35:29 Comparing VR near-death experiences with psychedelic experiences
41:59 The difference between VR and psychedelics
47:25 Technology and transcendence
53:15 Is the numadelic experience already used in therapeutic settings?
1:01:26 Balancing oneness and separateness
1:06:18 Final words
© 2026 Essentia Foundation. All rights on interview content reserved.
Comments
Latest news
@winjoda
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
I’m 1/3 of the way through and worried they aren’t going to tell us how to access the VR experience! I have had a similar experience (through meditation instead of NDE), and would love to know how they truly compare. I’ve never been able to communicate the profound experiences and this would be just so incredible to dip my toe in his own experience.
@pattoneill2402
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
I love the way David's understanding of quantum mechanics is enhancing his understanding of his own consciousness.This is a fascinating time when quantum physics is merging with metaphysics. I have been studying this for years from the view of a metaphysician, as well as studying quantum physics (without the math!!). The compatibility of the two fields is amazing.
@laluna5548
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Where, how and for how much money can I pay for this VR experience?
@Sea0tteryx
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
why is this podcast so boring for such an interesting topic
@anthonylawrence5842
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Black absorbs light/heat and White reflects light/heat
@ChrisStolpy
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Wowwwww .." if you are infinity ..what's there to do , explore all the ways to be infinitely finite."….
….. Wow ……there it is.. lol there's the awnser to the age ol question…bingo
@mignargon
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Nothingness is the source of everything, as eastern philosophy has taught for millenia
@GenX888
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Liminal spaces are spaces in which creation is born.
@001maremareeeee
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
I got near death experience codziennie kurwa stary uwierz …to sie nazywa …życie ..
@GangaKolbinger
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Totally fascinating. Thank you for providing such important and relevant information
@Themirrorpoint-t1i
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
In ordinary physics, darkness is usually defined as the absence of visible light, not something that contains light. However, regions that appear dark can still contain invisible electromagnetic radiation, quantum fields, or other forms of energy that humans do not directly see.
In physics, energy is usually bounded within specific systems, but questions about the universe as a whole are more complicated. Whether total energy of the universe is finite, zero, or even well-defined is a deeper cosmological question without a simple settled answer. Physical theories sometimes produce infinities mathematically, but these do not usually correspond to accessible infinite energy in the real world.
@elifapaydn7022
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
wonderful!
@tempesta8833
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Not sure if it has been asked before. Can I get the vr experience anywhere?
@nicky640
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
15:30 how to…
Because matter is captured movement. It magnetically keeps the energy flow contained. Light/energy is also movement/vibration. Destroy the magnetic bonds to release the captured light, like friction creating fire.
@manikandanm2780
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
"In fact, there is no darkness in existence. What we perceive as darkness occurs when energy is absent or withheld, and no light is reflected. Darkness is not an independent reality; it is simply the absence of visible light."
@carolinebielby5924
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Hes such a chilled out character, really great vibe.
@FringeWizard2
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
This guy having the name Glowacki and talking so much about light seems like destiny.
@fuerLutzi
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Davids laughing is proof to me, he's on to something. Like, on the right track.
@penraaa
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Thank you ❤
@paulward2333
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Thank you for this video!
@MarthaEllen88
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
11:51 just before this timestamp starting to talk about darkness or the void as 'ull of light'. This is so interesting. I have had a sudden shocking 'viewing the void' experience as part of meditation, preceded by a 'Central bright light' experience. But viewing the void…. Although it was black and 'nothing there', I could also see it extending off into infinity…. As you see space portrayed in sci fi films.. as if 'lit'. I have wondered if this 'flip' into strange experiences as my brain was very quiet was mimicking death experiences. I wonder if I have viewed through mediation what happens when one dies.
@miloradstefanovic1
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
🍄
@sigma-signifier
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
"Everything is in fact energy…" and all energy are in fact frequencies. Therefore, all matter is energy and all energy are frequencies. E=mc^2, E=hf and f=mc^/2 have all the same meanings.
@Juan-Gaviota
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
31:40 indeed a different word should be used in physics than in spirituality for "energy"…
@tiagiiiin
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
This channel is a ray of pure lucidity in an age of intellectual myopia
@themagicbuzz5728
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
The inappropriate and constant laughing is all I need to know here…
@alb3eer007
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Darkness is the Womb of Light 🎉
@KathyCervino
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
Why didn't you ask about his NDE????? I was waiting!!!!!!
@KathyCervino
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
But the infinite doesn't want all the pleasures, and the best food because the infinite is simply LOVE. The infinite just IS!
@IrelandDiaspora
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
What if the brain is just a navigation aid , the heart is the engine, but what if the mind is in your DNA and remains with your body until every speck of DNA is eliminated and decomposed .😮
I'm gonna get cremated if at all possible . Peace to all 🕊️🕊️
@KathyCervino
June 3, 2026 at 4:10 am
You can see in the use of his hands, he is an artist, a creator. This is what we are called to become. That coupled with the science brain 🧠 has created an energy being that understands the universe. AI should be used to create beauty rather than to track us to make money for the elite who can never understand the purpose of life.
Comments are closed.