Institute for Multidimensional Living

Our Vision: To be a trailblazing, inclusive institute that challenges outdated paradigms in psychology and personal development by centering lived experience, self-expression, and intuitive insight as valid and valuable ways of knowing and healing.

Mission Statement:
The Institute for Multidimensional Living is a for-profit research and educational organization dedicated to exploring the intersections of neurodivergence, queerness, and extrasensory perception. We develop creative, research-informed tools that support emotional expression, self-awareness, and alignment with one’s authentic self. Our goal is to normalize and celebrate the full spectrum of human experience—and to create space where being all of yourself is not just allowed, but encouraged.

Core Goals and Focus Areas

  1. Advance Affirming Research
    Conduct mixed-methods and arts-based research to better understand the internal sensory and emotional lives of autistic, ADHD, extrasensory, and queer individuals—especially those with alexithymia or who feel disconnected from their emotional selves. The institute champions ethical, participant-led, and IRB-compliant studies where applicable, while also engaging in exempt and narrative-based inquiry to uplift underrepresented stories.

  2. Develop Intuitive Tools for Self-Exploration
    Design and distribute tools like the Intuitive Art Method—a symbolic, color-based process that allows individuals to access and express their emotions without relying on verbal language. These tools are grounded in psychological theory (e.g., Bucci’s Multiple Code Theory) and informed by personal experience.

  3. Support Personal Alignment and Multidimensional Embodiment
    Offer coaching, workshops, and writing that guide people toward reconnecting with their full selves. The Institute supports those who have streamlined or masked aspects of their identities—whether due to trauma, societal pressure, or neurotypical expectations—in rediscovering joy, truth, and personal power.

  4. Cultivate Public Understanding of Neurodivergence and Intuition
    Translate research and lived experience into accessible content—books, YouTube videos, Substack articles, and public talks—that normalize intuitive experiences and neurodivergent perspectives. The Institute also consults on media portrayals to support nuanced, multidimensional characters and narratives.

  5. Empower Caregivers and Allies
    Provide education and tools for parents, educators, and clinicians who want to understand the internal sensory and emotional experiences of neurodivergent individuals—without resorting to pathologizing language or rigid frameworks.

  6. Champion Ethical Integrity and Lived Experience
    Uphold high ethical standards in all research, coaching, and consulting work. Center autonomy, consent, and participant well-being—while acknowledging that intuition, creativity, and lived experience offer valid epistemologies alongside empirical data.

Who We Serve

  • Autistic, ADHD, and neurodivergent individuals

  • Queer, trans, and gender-expansive communities

  • People with extrasensory or intuitive abilities

  • Artists, writers, and sensitives seeking aligned expression

  • Parents, educators, and professionals who support neurodivergent youth

  • Creators and storytellers seeking authentic portrayals of multidimensional characters

Nice to meet you!

I’m Rachel Archelaus (she/they/he) — founder of the Institute for Multidimensional Living, alignment coach, artist, researcher, and believer that being all of yourself is the most joyful way to live.

My own journey started with an intense extrasensory awakening in my teens. It was overwhelming and disorienting. Without language or support to understand it, I shut down emotionally, left high school, and was prescribed Prozac — even though I knew deep down I wasn’t depressed. I was simply having a natural response to my experience of the world.

Over the years, I discovered I’m autistic, ADHD, extrasensory, sexually queer, and genderqueer. The challenges I faced weren’t because something was “wrong” with me — they were because the world is not built for my neurotype or my way of perceiving reality. That realization changed everything.

I began designing my life around what does work for me: how I communicate, how I work, how I rest, and how I navigate the sensory and emotional landscape of my days. I learned to accommodate myself so I could live with more energy, creativity, and purpose.

That journey inspired me to help others do the same.
I earned my Master’s degree in Psychology (Child & Developmental Psychology concentration), researching how creative, intuitive processes can help autistic individuals with alexithymia better identify and express emotions. My academic work merges with two decades of professional coaching and teaching — blending science, creativity, and lived experience to empower others to thrive.

Today, through the Institute for Multidimensional Living, I create spaces for neurodivergent, queer, and extrasensory people to:

  • Understand their sensory and emotional worlds

  • Build daily accommodations that make life easier and more joyful

  • Gain tools for alignment, creative expression, and self-advocacy

  • Connect with a community that celebrates difference instead of minimizing it

I believe you can live a life that feels aligned, abundant, and uniquely yours — and I’m here to help you uncover, reclaim, and fully embody every dimension of who you are.

Much love,
Rachel Archelaus

Rachel Archelaus experiences life as a multidimensional being. She has seen and interacted with the nonphysical world since her childhood and continues to have a rich experience of different beings, star systems, and energies.

Rachel’s academic research investigates how intuitive and art-based practices support emotional identification and regulation in neurodivergent individuals. As a developmental and behavioral scientist, she examines the mechanisms linking intuition, creativity, and consciousness, helping to build a scientific framework for understanding multidimensional experience.

She is the founder of the Intuitive Art Academy and the Institute for Multidimensional Living, where she teaches people to connect with their inner wisdom through a simple, creative process.

Rachel is the co-host of Soulfullpreneur Radio and the host of the Intuitive Art Show. She has interviewed leading spiritual creatives such as Sonia Choquette, Kyle Cease, Robert Sheinfeld, Jim Self and Jonas Elrod.

In 2008 she founded Sephyrus Press which publishes poetry and self help. Intuitive Art: How to Have a Two-Way Conversation with Your Higher Self and Above the Surface, a fairytale for adults are her latest books.

Rachel Archelaus

Multidimensional Psychology

Multidimensional Psychology is an emerging framework that studies how humans construct meaning across body, mind, symbol, and perception.

It integrates developmental psychology, neuroscience, embodied cognition, symbolic processing, and altered-state research to explore one central question:

What happens when a human system becomes coherent?

Rather than reducing experience to pathology or inflating it into mysticism, Multidimensional Psychology holds a middle ground:

Curious.
Rigorous.
Open.
Grounded.

What “Multidimensional” Means

Human experience does not operate on a single layer.

We live across multiple interacting dimensions:

  • Biological (nervous system, sensation, regulation)

  • Emotional (affect, attachment, felt experience)

  • Cognitive (beliefs, prediction, narrative)

  • Symbolic (imagery, metaphor, meaning-making)

  • Social (relational dynamics, signaling, belonging)

  • Perceptual (intuition, altered states, expanded awareness)

Most psychological models prioritize one or two of these dimensions.

Multidimensional Psychology studies how they interact.

When these layers are misaligned, friction increases.

When they integrate, coherence increases.

Core Principles

1. Coherence Over Optimization

Human systems do not necessarily expand through effort alone. Many shifts occur when internal resistance decreases.

Reduced internal conflict often increases:

  • Clarity

  • Creativity

  • Emotional integration

  • Stable decision-making

2. Emotion as Meaning Construction

Difficulties such as alexithymia may reflect disrupted translation between bodily signals and symbolic meaning — not absence of feeling.

Building bridges between sensation and language restores access.

3. Insight States Are Worth Studying

Flow, intuition, channeling, and altered states are measurable phenomena with identifiable neural correlates.

They are not automatically pathological.
They are not automatically supernatural.
They are human.

4. Neurodevelopmental Variation Is Informative

Some neurodivergent individuals report expanded symbolic perception, heightened sensitivity, or altered embodiment.

Rather than dismissing these as anomalies, Multidimensional Psychology studies them as variations in perceptual weighting and dimensional access.

5. Language Matters

Terms like alignment, higher self, or intuition may describe real psychological phenomena — such as reduced prediction error, internal coherence, or integrative neural processing.

Spiritual language and scientific language may sometimes be describing the same experiences from different angles.

What We Are Currently Working On

The Intuitive Art Intervention

A structured symbolic process designed to help individuals translate internal sensation into visual language and then into conscious meaning.

Research focus:

  • Emotional identification in autistic individuals with alexithymia

  • Subsymbolic-to-symbolic integration (Bucci’s Multiple Code Theory)

  • Embodied cognition frameworks

Insight-State Research

Exploring how reduced executive resistance may increase integrative cognition.

Includes:

  • Channeling and trance-state literature

  • Flow research

  • Gamma-band activity and neural integration

  • Predictive processing models

Affective Calibration

Studying how chronic stress or adaptation can reduce access to higher-coherence states — and how recalibration restores clarity.

AI as Comparative Model

Examining how probabilistic language generation in AI mirrors aspects of human cognition — and where embodiment fundamentally differentiates us.

AI helps clarify:

  • Emergence vs. agency

  • Pattern vs. meaning

  • Structure vs. lived experience

What This Is Not

Multidimensional Psychology is not:

  • A belief system.

  • A replacement for clinical care.

  • A claim of supernatural authority.

  • A rejection of neuroscience.

  • A rejection of lived experience.

It is a framework for inquiry.

Who This Is For

This work tends to resonate with:

  • Neurodivergent individuals seeking integration rather than suppression.

  • Highly sensitive people learning calibration rather than hardening.

  • Individuals who experience intuitive or altered states and want grounded language for them.

  • Clinicians and researchers curious about symbolic and embodied processing.

  • People who sense there is more complexity to human cognition than current models allow.

The Direction

The Institute is committed to:

  • Developing clear hypotheses.

  • Integrating empirical research.

  • Building accessible symbolic tools.

  • Bridging scientific and experiential language.

  • Studying coherence without romanticizing it.

At its core, Multidimensional Psychology asks:

What if some systems don’t need to be fixed?

What if they need to be integrated?