Hmmm, i do not know if people here knew him personally , i did not.

But today upon visiting his webpage i was shocked to find out that he died, aged 52 years old.

Sphere used to frequent forums under the given username as well as few others. His main area of expertise was Salvia Divinorum. In this field, i believe, he did lots of work lots of experimentation giving very sound guidelines on extraction as well as approaching salvia.

His webpage remains online with lots of techniques and commentary on salvia. I believe it contains really interesting material, amazing pictures and quite fine tuned techniques:

http://imageevent.com/sphere/

Has anyone got any more information on this person? Was anything mentioned in other forums? It seems as if he is forgotten so easily...

In my opinion the vision producing substances we know about today are just the beginning of the exploration of consciousness through the use of molecular keys. It's obvious to me the most exciting future for mankind is an internal exploration, that the real frontier is the human brain which is far more powerful than any silicon or carbon based computer will ever be. Leading edge research in consciousness is ever confirming that our wetware parallel processing self-conscious brain is more than just an isolated self-conscious entity but something which has an ability to interface with the universe on a quantum level. Although I cannot prove this or claim I know the following as fact; I believe the use of molecular keys known as entheogenic substances can sometimes allow us to have a interaction to a greater mind which is not only human awareness alone but an interconnection of all forms of sentient self-aware consciousness which through that connection can join as one with one another. My hope is that we will continue developing these keys to allow new conscious doorways to be opened and see our progression in this field to be the real lasting frontier for mankind to advance forward into, a future which has no end.

Just remembered this thread and thought I ought to bump it in light of new information. Sphere has not died after all. Before the entheogen.com forums went down, Sphere (who now goes by the username Orb) made a post titled "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." Turns out he just hadn't been active online on any entheogen-related forums for a while.

Viva Sphere!

May Sphere rest in peace.

In my opinion the vision producing substances we know about today are just the beginning of the exploration of consciousness through the use of molecular keys. It's obvious to me the most exciting future for mankind is an internal exploration, that the real frontier is the human brain which is far more powerful than any silicon or carbon based computer will ever be. Leading edge research in consciousness is ever confirming that our wetware parallel processing self-conscious brain is more than just an isolated self-conscious entity but something which has an ability to interface with the universe on a quantum level. Although I cannot prove this or claim I know the following as fact; I believe the use of molecular keys known as entheogenic substances can sometimes allow us to have a interaction to a greater mind which is not only human awareness alone but an interconnection of all forms of sentient self-aware consciousness which through that connection can join as one with one another. My hope is that we will continue developing these keys to allow new conscious doorways to be opened and see our progression in this field to be the real lasting frontier for mankind to advance forward into, a future which has no end.