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? To see it not as a 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 rigorous learning, I became convinced that the West's spiritual landscape needed something different.
More curiosity, less convincing.
Currently, I'm pursuing undergraduate research at the Barrett Honors College at ASU, studying a specific method for shared meaning-making—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 or a thought, I'd love to hear it.
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. My interest in Telepathy is not as a paranormal claim, but as a structured method for cultivating the kind of relational curiosity and collective inquiry for which I believe the West is quietly starving.
My research asks whether a structured, telepathy-based training program, when 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 differences? 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 for shared inquiry.
My Writing
This is a place for me to share random bits of writing and reflection. Expect a wide range of topics and styles, fiction and research, play and practice.
