Supraterrestrials
The Secret to Making Contact
with Non-Human Intelligence
Since 1960 we have pointed our instruments at the sky and heard silence. The silence is real. It was never the only direction.
Blue Book figures: U.S. Air Force fact sheet, 1947 to 1969.
Listening
in the wrong
direction
Carlos Warter and Chris McCann propose that the silence from the sky is a verdict on the method, not on the universe. Life elsewhere in the cosmos may be exactly what we have imagined, and may yet be found by the instruments already pointed at it. The argument here is that a second kind of intelligence is also present, moving through frequencies and dimensions that intersect human reality continuously. The equipment capable of registering that one is the equipment you were born with.
Drawing on quantum mechanics, Indigenous cosmologies, the neuroscience of altered states, five decades of Carlos Warter's clinical practice, and the years he worked with his close friend the Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, the authors map the human nervous system as the primary instrument of contact. Personal encounters at sacred sites from Teotihuacán to Abu Simbel, clinical case studies, and fifty years of the authors' firsthand experience ground the framework in lived reality. Both men are experiencers themselves.
Breathwork, somatic discernment, and integration protocols carry you from passive speculation to active participation. Five decades of clinical work with entheogens, psychedelic therapy, and other non-ordinary states shapes what is taught here, though nothing in the book requires them. What the book offers is rarer than disclosure: a coherent map for becoming the kind of instrument capable of recognizing intelligences that have always been present.
- 01 A reframe of the search Supraterrestrials are introduced as intelligences that move through frequencies and dimensions rather than across distance. The search turns inward without losing its rigor.
- 02 The nervous system as instrument Quantum mechanics, polyvagal theory, Indigenous cosmologies, and fifty years of clinical work converge on a single claim: perception is tunable, and tuning is trainable.
- 03 Practices, not promises Frameworks for somatic discernment, expanded perception, and navigating encounters, drawn from five decades of clinical work with entheogens and other non-ordinary states, including how to tell signal from projection when both feel identical from inside.
The first question is always: did it really happen? That is the wrong question.
From Chapter Three · High Strangeness, Deep Intelligence
A physician and
an experiencer
Carlos Warter, MD, PhD
Physician · Author of more than 20 books
A pioneer in spiritual regenerative psychiatry, integrative medicine, and psychedelic therapy since the 1970s. He trained in residency at Harvard Medical School and founded the World Health Foundation for Development and Peace. He is an experiencer himself, which is how the clinical work started. Five decades of it produced his own method, including the regression technique he calls reverse hypnosis.
He trained at Harvard in 1971 and met John Mack roughly two decades later, through the work rather than the institution. That method, built with people who had no vocabulary for what happened to them, is the spine of this book. He lives in Southern California.
drwarter.com ↗
Chris McCann
Entrepreneur · Leadership advisor
Three decades building and leading go-to-market teams, and a lifetime of encounters, beginning in childhood, that he kept out of every room he worked in. He writes Field Notes, a twice-monthly letter on the gap between what leaders do and what they are carrying when they do it.
The first-person accounts in this book are his: the crib, Tulum, the beings of light. They are reported plainly, without argument for what they prove. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
chrismccann.co ↗Matter and mind were never separate. They were different dialects of the same language.
Supraterrestrials
There were three beings to my left, at about 270 degrees. Massive, ten stories tall, maybe more. Conical bottoms, oval heads with no features, translucent yellow-gold. The light shone through them, lighting them from within.
They weren’t studying me. We were all facing the same direction, witnessing Earth’s beauty together.
“We just stopped by to say awe . . .”
I can’t make this up. They definitely have a sense of humor.
Chris McCann · Chapter One
For media,
podcasts, and events
Both authors are available for interviews, panels, keynotes, and long-form podcast conversations. Carlos speaks to the clinical and philosophical frame. Chris speaks to the experiencer's side and to leaders trying to reconcile inner life with organizational life. Both are experiencers themselves.
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I stopped telling people about my experiences for almost thirty years. Not because I stopped having them. Because I thought the cost of honesty would be too high. When I finally started talking, first with my wife, then close friends, then Carlos, then publicly, I expected rejection. What I got was recognition. That happened to me too. I’ve never told anyone. I thought I was the only one that I knew.
Chris McCann- Why hasn't SETI heard anything? We have listened since 1960 with an instrument built to catch intelligence that travels and broadcasts. The argument here is that the silence is real, the instrument is fine, and the assumption underneath it is too narrow.
- What if alien abduction isn't trauma? Carlos has spent fifty years with people who arrived terrified, and built a method for revisiting the memory without the fear. What surfaces is usually a different event than the one they walked in with.
- How do you tell a real encounter from your own mind? Both are produced by the same nervous system. Carlos on why that question is more useful than chasing proof, and how he teaches people to answer it themselves.
- Psilocybin is about to be legal. Is anyone ready? Fifty years with these medicines, and twelve of them spent deliberately without. Carlos on the part the current enthusiasm keeps skipping.
- Harvard investigated a psychiatrist for believing his patients. What happened to John Mack in 1994, how it actually ended, and what it was like to do the same work with no institution to lose.
- The government is finally opening the UFO files. Nobody cares. Chris on the records act now in the defense bill, and on the polling after the 2023 hearings that showed most people had already stopped paying attention.
- How can you be certain about something you cannot prove? Both authors say the beings are real. Neither claims proof. On the difference between evidence and experience, and why they think demanding proof is the wrong test.
- What if the most frightening thing that ever happened to you was a mistranslation? Chris on a childhood he dreaded, and the same room revisited decades later with the fear taken out of it.
- What does it cost to hide something for thirty years? Chris ran go-to-market teams and never mentioned any of this in a single meeting. What compartmentalizing does to a leader, and to the company around them.
- Who do you tell first? Chris on the private disclosures that come long before a public one, the order they happen in, and why that order is the hard part.
Straight answers
What is a supraterrestrial?
A supraterrestrial is an intelligence that moves through frequencies and dimensions rather than across distance. The idea sits alongside the search for space-faring life rather than replacing it. Warter and McCann take that search as entirely plausible, and argue a second category exists too: presences that intersect human reality continuously and register in a nervous system rather than on radar.
How is this different from a UFO book?
UFO literature is organized around evidence: footage, radar returns, what governments will admit. This book is organized around capacity. It argues disclosure would settle less than people expect, and spends its pages on what happens inside a person who has an encounter, drawn from Carlos Warter's clinical case studies.
Why has SETI never found a signal?
SETI has searched since 1960 and confirmed nothing. The search has widened well past radio, into biosignatures, atmospheric chemistry, and the conditions that let life begin. That is real progress. Every one of those methods still looks for life that travels or leaves a trace. The instrument is sound. Its range is narrower than the question being asked.
Who was John Mack, and why does he matter here?
John Mack was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist who documented hundreds of experiencer accounts in the 1990s. Harvard investigated him for taking them seriously, then closed the inquiry without sanction, and he stayed a tenured faculty member in good standing. He and Carlos Warter were close friends who worked together on this material for years.
Do you need psychedelics to practice what the book teaches?
No. The practices are breathwork, somatic discernment, and integration, and none of them require a substance. Five decades of Carlos Warter's clinical work with entheogens, psilocybin, and other non-ordinary states shaped what the book teaches. The book still asks nothing of you chemically and gives no protocol for use.
When is Supraterrestrials published, and can I preorder?
Park Street Press, an imprint of Inner Traditions, publishes Supraterrestrials in fall 2027. It runs 208 pages in paperback, ISBN 979-8-88850-513-7. Preorder links are not live yet. Readers on the mailing list get sample chapters and first notice when preorder opens.
Why call them supraterrestrials and not aliens?
Alien and extraterrestrial already carry stories: invasion, or a home planet somewhere. This book uses both for orientation instead. Alien names the disposition that takes. Extraterrestrial names the one that gives. Supraterrestrial names neither, and points at the field both are oriented toward.
Between now
and publication
Both authors write in public. Carlos has been teaching this material for five decades. Chris is working out in the open what it cost him to stay quiet about it. Book material shows up in both places first.
Early chapters, before anyone else
Publication is fall 2027. Between now and then: sample chapters, before they go anywhere else. Research that did not survive the edit, which is often the best of it. Notes on where Carlos and Chris still disagree, because they do. And one email, with plenty of warning, when preorder opens.
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