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Ego Death and Psychedelics

By John Harrison

Most of us involved in consciousness research and exploration have had both personal and/or professional episodes that resemble or emulate a temporary ego death (loss of the separate self) or, in the affirmative, have experienced a deep and profound merging with the transcendent other.

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Am I Dreaming?: The New Science of Consciousness and How Altered States Reboot the Brain

When a computer goes wrong, we are told to turn it off and on again. In Am I Dreaming?, science journalist James Kingsland reveals how the human brain is remarkably similar.

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James Kingsland
2019
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The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice

The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals—and that social change is not just for movement builders.

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Staci K. Haines
2019
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Aldous Huxley on Acid

This is a recording of Aldous Huxley on 100 ug of LSD, made on December 23 1962. The trip sitter is his wife, Laura Archera Huxley. He discusses the secret of life - to be oneself and at the same time 'identical with the divine'.

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Aldous Huxley
2019
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"Learning from the Inside Out" - Sheila Rubin, LMFT - Somatic Psychology

Sheila Rubin, LMFT is an adjunct professor in the somatic psychology program at JFK University. In this brief clip, she shares how she likes to teach - from the felt sense of the "inside out" - in the Somatic Psychology program.

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Sheila Rubin
2017
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Risa Kaparo & Thomas Hübl: “Living into the Unknown,” Part 2a

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Risa Kaparo
2013
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Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness—Transform Pain, Stress, Trauma, and Aging

Awakening Somatic Intelligence offers a guide to Somatic Learning, an innovative body-oriented approach that incorporates mindfulness, visualization, breathing exercises, postures, and stretches.

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Risa Kaparo, Rick Hanson, James L. Oschman
2012
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The Importance of the Psychedelic Experience During Ketamine Infusions

Part of the way healing occurs during the ketamine infusion is due to the non-ordinary (psychedelic) experience. In this non-ordinary state, the unconscious mind is accessed and allows processing of unresolved emotions and traumatic events.

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2020
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The Rise and Rise of Psychedelics | High Society

The UK is experiencing a psychedelic renaissance.

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Robin Carhart-Harris
2020
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way.

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Tom Wolfe
1999
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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change

While isolating himself to work on his novel Taipei, Tao Lin discovered the prolific work of Terence McKenna--the leading advocate of psychotropic drugs since Timothy Leary.

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Tao Lin
2018
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