Hi, I’m Ginny Wan.
A glitch in the Matrix who always questioned the code.
I help people expand their consciousness to live a more fulfilling life.
I call my work Alchemy, helping you transmute the unconscious into the conscious, the shadow into light, and your wound into medicine.
🎭 Personas I’ve worn in this reality
Featuring Panda
The CEO (Chief Emotional Officer)
my flower child.
Two CVs
The real version, and the surreal one.
On paper
- Education
- BA Philosophy, University College LondonMSc Management, London Business School
- Training
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming & hypnotherapy under Richard Bandler (co-founder of NLP), Paul McKenna, and Stephen Brooks, the first to bring hypnotherapy into the NHS, and compassionate Ericksonian hypnosis to Europe.
- Recognition
- Featured in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit Magazine. Guest lecturer at UCL & Sotheby's Institute of Art.
Thank you, Ego. You worked very hard. Here’s your participation trophy.
Off the record
- Continuing education
- I investigate the mind, body, spirit, and the nature of consciousness and reality through every lens I can find: Jungian psychology, neuroscience, Western esotericism, philosophy of the mind, etc. Formally, that has meant Western esotericism at the University of Amsterdam, psychic mediumship at The College of Psychic Studies, and Reiki 1 & 2. Informally, I follow whichever rabbit hole I’m intuitively drawn towards. Sometimes it’s ancient wisdom and esoteric philosophy across Eastern and Western traditions: Taoist texts, Vedic non-dualism, Jewish mysticism, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, etc. Sometimes it’s decoding 5,000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphics. Sometimes it’s a plant medicine ceremony.
- Also practising
- Channelling, automatic writing, trance states, ecstatic dance, shamanic drumming, kriya yoga, breathwork, energy healing, and setting off the smoke alarm with incense.
- Prior experience
- Possible past life in Ancient Egypt as a high priestess.
references available from my spirit guides, on request.
As featured at & in
I had sleeping pills prepared by the bedside, ready to leave this world.
I fled an abusive home, boarding a plane to a country I'd never seen.
I had lost faith in everything. The world felt cold, transactional, and hostile.
It was a gap year in Paris that saved me. I went on an existential quest, searching for the answer to what Camus called the one truly serious philosophical problem.
I found the answer in the museums. While my art history classes moved through the timeline of the past, I was looking at a timeline of human defiance.
I saw that every great artist was someone who had hacked the Matrix of their time. The world demanded they see things as everyone else did, but these artists rebelled and answered with a defiant “no.” They invented new ways of seeing.
That was my first awakening.
If reality is a construct, I didn’t have to perceive the world only as it is given to me.
By 19, I moved to London to master the code of reality. I wanted to learn how to create a better world.
At University College London, I studied philosophy to understand the formless, how ways of thinking shape the societies we live in.
Later, at London Business School, I learned how to materialise formless ideas into form: tangible, viable businesses that change lives.
My real laboratory was the intersection of Art and Tech. I wanted to democratise the new ways of seeing that had saved me in Paris. But interning at auction houses and galleries, I hit a wall. The art world is built to exclude: it gatekeeps art as a financial asset and uses intellectual snobbery to deter the masses.
I realised that if I truly wanted to create impact, I had to understand the psychology of the collective unconscious, the hidden forces that gather, hold, and direct human attention at scale.
This search led me to a digital marketing career. While freelancing for an agency, I helped Silicon Valley tech brands, eCommerce stores, and fashion labels hit 6 and 7 figures in months. To me, the best kind of marketing is alchemy. It’s the art and science of turning brand stories into living mythologies that move hearts at scale.
I eventually returned to the art world, using these skills to help artists and galleries market their art online, taking the healing power of art I’d discovered in Paris into something profitable, tangible, and undeniable.
I bootstrapped Surreal Digital, an online art-marketing academy and agency, to a quarter-million dollars in 2.5 years, helping over 4,500 artists market their works.
On paper, I had every reason to be happy as a 26-year-old. I had monetised my passion. I had built the thing I was supposed to want, the thing I’d spent years convincing myself I wanted, the thing I’ve been told by society to want.
I was in a different kind of darkness now. Burnout. My body kept breaking down, and I was sick every two weeks. It forced me to examine the logic of what I had actually built.
The Awakening
In an altered state of consciousness, I realised I hadn’t been the architect of my life. My ego had built my business on unconscious trauma responses from childhood. It was a machine designed to silence the inner voice that said I wasn’t worthy of love unless I was useful. My worth was validated in every crisis I solved. I had commercialised my people-pleasing, and I was paying for it in energy, health, and time.
By then I had already tried more than thirty different healing modalities over the years: talk therapy, somatic work, meditation, breathwork, and the rest. Each gave me a piece of the puzzle, but none let me see and rewire the full unconscious programming running my life.
I had spent years thinking I was the conscious architect of my life. That every decision was rational, strategic, intentional. But the entire foundation of my business had been built by a terrified child I wasn’t even aware of.
And if I was unconscious about this, what else was I blind to?
The Matrix We Live In
The more I investigate what I’ve been unconscious of, the more I see how we are living in Plato’s cave, mistaking the shadows on the wall for the truth. How much of reality are we actually seeing?
Bits of information processed by the human brain every second
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The human brain processes 11 million bits of information per second. The conscious mind handles 40 to 50; the rest, 10,999,950 bits, are filtered by the unconscious before they reach awareness. (Manfred Zimmermann, 1986.) By age 35, roughly 95% of what we do, think, and feel operates unconsciously, our deepest patterns encoded before we turned seven. (Dr. Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief; Dr. Joe Dispenza.)
We’re chained in place, watching the shadows on the wall and believing that’s all there is. The Matrix is the force that keeps our heads turned toward those shadows, that tiny 50-bit fraction of reality we can see with our conscious mind, because that is where we are most easily controlled. We’re taught that logic and science, the limited products of that 50-bit conscious mind, are the sole dictators of truth. Anything emerging from the other 10,999,950 bits of unconscious intelligence is dismissed as “madness” or “woo.”
Today, the chains are digital. Our phones, social media apps, and TV screens are the “Black Mirrors” of the modern cave walls. They are designed to occupy those limited 50 bits of conscious attention every waking second, ensuring we never have the silence required to investigate the unconscious wisdom within.
I refused to stay chained to the shadows. I wanted to find the exit.
The Search
I spent the next few years investigating exactly how we were programmed and how to step outside of our ordinary, 50-bit conscious awareness and tap into the other 10,999,950 bits of unconscious information we’ve been conditioned to ignore.
I trained with world-renowned hypnotherapists like Paul McKenna, Richard Bandler, and Stephen Brooks, learning how unconscious scripts are written and, more importantly, how they can be rewritten in trance states.
I studied Jungian psychology to map the “Shadow” within myself and the collective.
At the University of Amsterdam’s Centre for Hermetic Philosophy, I learned the hidden and “rejected” esoteric philosophies that advocate looking for the unconscious wisdom within, approaches that mainstream history, society, and religion have spent centuries trying to erase.
I experimented with everything that promised to peel back the layers of the unconscious: plant medicine, somatic work, shamanic drumming, breathwork, meditation, and other techniques taught by ancient traditions and Mystery Schools.
The conclusion was undeniable: our unconscious is a hidden superpower.
It’s how Einstein accessed the theory of relativity in a daydream. How Virginia Woolf wrote some of her greatest works in trance. How Steve Jobs found solutions to business decisions in his meditations. How Christopher Nolan conceives of his blockbuster films in lucid dreams.
In my own experiments, I experienced the “supernatural”: time and space dissolved, synesthesia came online, and business problems I couldn’t solve for weeks were cleared by intuition in seconds. Unconscious traumas that would have required years of talk therapy disappeared overnight.
This is not a gift reserved for the ‘chosen’ few. It is our biological birthright. You see glimpses of it in the shower, on a long walk, or in those moments of stillness when an insight strikes and you suddenly, intuitively, know. As children, before the age of twelve, we lived in those altered states naturally, before the “Matrix” of formal education and social conditioning rationalised our imagination out of us.
I’ve been called to share the keys found during a decade of my descent and experimentation with the raw power of the unconscious.
This mission has become urgent with the arrival of AI and a global epidemic of burnout, depression, and disconnection. AI will outcompute our 50-bit conscious mind. It has already mastered the logical mental models of the world’s greatest thinkers. It can calculate, rationalise, and strategise.
But AI cannot tap into the power of the unconscious.
It will never do the deep, sacred, soulful work that makes us human.
I’m here to help you awaken the genius within, to reconnect you with the 10,999,950 bits of wild, sacred, creative unconscious intelligence that no AI or algorithm can touch.
Why I Built Surreal Experiments
If you are searching for meaning, clarity, or purpose;
if you’re carrying trauma that won’t let go;
if you feel trapped in patterns you cannot seem to break;
if you want to simply upgrade your consciousness and live your life to the fullest,
Welcome.
Surreal Experiments exists to help you see the invisible patterns running your life on autopilot. The ones that make you push boulders uphill every day. The ones installed before you could consent to them. The ones keeping you trapped in a cage of your own unconscious design.
You’ve done the work. You’ve read the books. You’ve spent years in therapy. And yet you still feel stuck.
Because you’ve been asking the wrong questions.
I’m not here to give you more knowledge. You already have that. I’m here to offer you a perspective that allows you to unlearn the programming so you can finally listen to the wisdom within you.
Your unconscious has always been speaking. The intelligence has always been there. You have simply been conditioned by the Matrix to ignore it.
As Plato said: “All learning is remembering.”
I am here to help you return to that source:
- to rewire your unconscious so you can finally be free from the past
- to transform your wounds into medicine and your shadow into light
- to actualise your fullest potential
- to help you architect a reality that resonates with the deepest part of your being
The wisdom is already within you. I am here to help you remember how to listen.
Ready to tap into the superpower of your unconscious? 🔮
Not everyone will hear this call. If you feel it in your bones, enter the Surreal.
don’t say I didn’t warn you.
More of Ginny’s work at ginnywan.com