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Why We Should Rethink What We’ve Been Told About Consciousness

By Graham Hancock — 2013

If we as adults are not free to make sovereign decisions—right or wrong—about our own consciousness, that most intimate, that most sapient, that most personal part of ourselves, then in what useful sense can we be said to be free at all?

Read on www.newstatesman.com

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Ralph Metzner: Jung, Hofmann and the Philosopher’s Stone

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Ralph Metzner
2019
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Uses of Psychedelics in Shamanism and Psychotherapy—Ralph Metzner

Ralph Metzner will describe and compare the use of ayahuasca in Amazonian shamanic healing practices and contemporary contexts, the use of Psilocybe mushrooms in historical indigenous Mesoamerican culture for vision seeking and their contemporary applications (as psilocybin) in pre-death...

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Ralph Metzner
2013
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Ralph Metzner: CG Jung, Albert Hofmann, and the Philosophers’ Stone (at the Seattle Jung Society)

Shamanism, yoga and alchemy are historically the three great traditions of transformation - physical, psychological and spiritual - with shamanism, yoga and alchemy the Eastern and Western extensions.

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Ralph Metzner
2014
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The Ayahuasca Experience: A Sourcebook on the Sacred Vine of Spirits

An exploration of the chemical, biological, psychological, and experiential dimensions of ayahuasca • Details the scientific discovery of ayahuasca’s sophisticated psychoactive delivery system in the brain and body and its potential applications in medicine and psychology • Includes...

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Ralph Metzner (editor)
2014
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The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

A classic and perennially relevant book, written by one of the world's foremost authorities in the field, The Unfolding Self examines in detail the transformations that an individual undergoes in the process of their expansion of consciousness.

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Ralph Metzner
2010
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Hofmann’s Potion—Albert Hofmann LSD Documentary

By the mid-1950s, LSD research was being published in medical and academic journals all over the world. It showed potential benefits in the treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other mental illnesses. This film explores those potential benefits, and the researchers who explored them.

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Albert Hofmann
2012
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Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth

A comprehensive guide to the safe and ethical application of expanded states of consciousness for therapists, healing practitioners, and sincere explorers. Psychedelic medicines also known as entheogens are entering the mainstream.

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Françoise Bourzat, Kristina Hunter, Ralph Metzner (foreword)
2019
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