Humans Understanding Meaning
School of Mysticism
Where rigorous thinking meets the edges of what we know.
I'm Yvé Dizes — teacher, researcher, and committed asker of uncomfortable questions.
HUM SoM grew out of something simple: I started sharing a meditation technique with friends, and more people kept showing up than my living room could hold. That was the beginning.
What drives the school now is a question I couldn't stop asking: what would it look like to take mystical experience seriously — not as metaphor, not as self-help, but as something worth investigating with real rigor? After years of studying with teachers across traditions, and after watching too many people spend their savings on practices that offered escape rather than grounding, I became convinced that the West's spiritual landscape needed something different. Not more certainty. More genuine inquiry.
Currently I'm pursuing undergraduate research at the Barrett Honors College at ASU, studying a specific method for teaching telepathy — work I've been doing informally for years and am now bringing into an academic context.
My approach to all of this is shaped by a few simple mottos: curiosity over convincing, questions over quarrels, find the magic in the mundane.
If you're a colleague, a student, or just someone who wandered in — welcome. Look around.
And if something sparks a question, I'd love to hear it.
Current Research
Telepathy as a Path to Shared Meaning
I am currently a student in the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University, where my undergraduate thesis investigates something I have been practicing and teaching for years: telepathy — not as a paranormal claim, but as a structured method for cultivating the kind of relational curiosity and collective inquiry that I believe the West is quietly starving for.
The research asks whether a structured, telepathy-based training program — paired with Socratic dialogue — can shift how people hold their own beliefs. Specifically: can it reduce defensive certainty, increase comfort with uncertainty, and open people to genuine engagement across difference? Two small pilot cohorts are currently underway, and I have IRB approval to proceed.
This project sits at the intersection of Religious Studies, social psychology, and my own years of facilitation experience. It is grounded in a simple observation: when meaning-making becomes entirely private, we stop examining our beliefs together. We defend them instead. These exercises are designed to create a low-barrier, low-dogma space where shared inquiry can happen — no lineage required, no in-group to join, no right answer to perform.
Want to Participate in the Research?
I am currently recruiting participants for two small cohorts that will take part in the telepathy study described above. If you've ever been curious about what it might feel like to genuinely explore the edges of shared perception — in a structured, low-pressure, no-dogma environment — this might be for you.
Each cohort meets online once a week for five sessions of 75 minutes each. No prior experience with meditation, mysticism, or telepathy is required. Just curiosity and a willingness to sit with uncertainty.
Participants must be 18 or older. Spots are limited.
[Apply here — link to Google Form]
Field Notes
This is where I think out loud. Field Notes collects essays, academic papers, and reflections written at the intersection of mysticism, research, and the ongoing question of how we make meaning together. Some of it is polished. Some of it is still working itself out. All of it is written in the spirit of curiosity over convincing.
