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Ralph Metzner



Ralph Metzner, PhD, (1936–2019) was a Germany-born American psychologist, writer, and researcher focused on human consciousness and consciousness expansion. He participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass). His interests ranged from archetypes, shamanism, spirit animals, the environmental crisis, and the inherent spiritual connection among all beings and the planet.

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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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Ralph Metzner: Death

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Alchemical Musings

Ralph Metzner first wrote about alchemy when he was in his early 30s. He included a chapter on alchemy in his book Maps of Consciousness, which was published in 1971.

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Ralph Metzner: Expansion of Consciousness of the Individual and Society (2011)

This fascinating talk by Ralph Metzner Ph.D., pioneering psychologist involved in consciousness research for over 50 years, covers the subject of alchemy according to Jung´s psychology and the many ways alchemy can be used as a tool for personal transformation.

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Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties

No understanding of the history of the sixties could be complete without a grasp of the work of Leary, Alpert, and Metzner, the cultural resistance to their experiments, and the way in which psychoactive drug use became a part of contemporary society.

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Ralph Metzner—Expanding Consciousness

Seven Phases of Socio-Cultural Transformation The Discovery of the consciousness-expanding substance LSD at the height of WWII synchronistically coincided with the invention of nuclear weaponry.

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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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Hofmann’s Elixir: LSD and the New Eleusis

Still lecturing until his death at 102, Dr Albert Hofmann would have been a remarkable man even if he hadn't discovered the chemical compound that changed the course of the 20th century—LSD.

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Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics

More than ever, people are in pursuit of greater fulfillment in their lives, seeking a deeper spiritual truth and strategies for liberation from suffering. Both Buddhism and psychedelics are subjects that one encounters in such spiritual pursuit.

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Worlds Within and Worlds Beyond

In the emerging worldview of our time, the two key paradigm revolutions are — a recognition of the multiple dimensions or worlds and recognition of the autonomy of meta-physical spirits inhabiting these many worlds. In this book, Dr.

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