NY: Anchor Books, 1970 — 512 p. — ISBN: 0385087748 (ISBN13: 9780385087742) This book is a broad and serious inquiry into this much-discussed topic. It will enlighten and surprise the uninitiated, as well as the frequent user. It includes first-hand reports of the nature of the experience; recent scientific theories; the use of psychedelics in primitive and non-western cultures;...
State University of New York Press, 2008. — 254 p. — ISBN: 0791476464 (ISBN13: 9780791476468). This pioneering work in teaching and transpersonal psychology explores the dynamics of collective consciousness in the classroom. Combining scientific research with personal accounts collected over thirty years, Christopher M. Bache examines the subtle influences that radiate...
Bisbee Cynthia Carson, Bisbee Paul, Dyck Erika, Farrell Patrick, Sexton James, Spisak James W. (eds.). 3rd Edition — McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. — 728 p. Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World . Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) was a British-trained psychiatrist interested in...
[Regina]: [publisher not identified], 1959 — 94 p. This 2002 version – OCR by MAPS.org – Edits & PDF by Erowid.org Psychiatric Rationale The Nature of the Drug Reaction The Development of Treatment Methods Individual and Group Methods Research Implications The Setting Equipment Indications and Contra Indications The Preparation of the Subject General Considerations Regarding...
Thousand Oaks, USA: Sage Publications, 1998. — 354 p. — ISBN: 0761910131 There is no shortage of research methods that are easily applied to the study of everyday human experience. How, though, does one attempt to study extraordinary human experiences - ultimate values and meanings, peak experiences, transcendence and heightened awareness, among others. William Braud and...
London: H.K.LEWIS & Co.Ltd, 1963. — 191 p. The proceedings of the quarterly meeting of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association in London February 1961. Synopsis of Certain Developments within the Field of Hallucinogenic Drugs Conditioning Experiments with LSD Mescaline and Human Thinking Mode of Action of Mescaline Certainty and Uncertainty in the LSD Treatment of...
Harper Perennial, 1990. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0060920432; ISBN13: 978-0060920432. You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is "flow," an experience that is...
Harper Perennial, 1990. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0060920432; ISBN13: 978-0060920432. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In...
Harper Perennial, 1990. — 314 p. — ISBN10: 0060920432; ISBN13: 978-0060920432. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and total involvement with life. In this...
Harper Perennial, 1993. — 384 p. — ISBN-10 0060921927; ISBN-13 978-0060921927. "An enormously helpful resource for thinking about the world that lies ahead and how we can influence it for the better."-- Robert N. Bellah, coauthor of "Habits of the Heart"A book of singular importance and timeliness, one with momentous implications for the future."-- Howard Gardner""The Evolving...
Santa Fe, USA: Synergetic Press, 2010. — 264 p. — ISBN: 0907791387 (ISBN13: 9780907791386) Edition Language: English (first published 2009) Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, an extraordinary new book, shines a bright light on the emergence of the sixties culture and the experiments with mind-altering substances undertaken by Professors Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and...
Nachtschatten Verlag, 2004 Als Govert Derix zum ersten Mal Ayahuasca mit seinem brasilianischen Schwager trinkt, erlebt er eine Welt, die sein Leben prägen sollte. Der bis dahin enttäuschte Philosoph, der sich damit abgefunden hatte, dass sein in der Jugend so leidenschaftlich geliebtes Fach in Wirklichkeit eine spröde "Schlangengrube" ist, erlebt durch den schamanistischen...
Park Street Press, 2013. — 160 p. A detailed account of the transformation of consciousness and discovery of life’s purpose brought on by peyote. - Shows how peyote and other visionary plants do not distort reality but gloriously unveil it, pulling the mind out of its cosmic slumber and revealing our unity with all life - Explains the necessity when working with peyote to...
Park Street Press. Rochester, Vermont. Toronto, Canada 2011 - 352 p. ISBN: 1594774021 (ISBN13: 9781594774027) Transcendent Experience: Entheogenic Sessions Personal Growth and Self-Exploration in Psychedelic Sessions Enhanced Problem Solving in Focused Sessions New Horizons The Necessary, the Extraordinary, and Some Hard-Core Data
State University of New York Press, 2017. — 376 p. "Participation and the Mystery" is both an introduction to and expansion of Jorge N. Ferrer's groundbreaking work on participatory spirituality, which holds that human beings are active cocreators of spiritual phenomena, worlds, and even ultimates. After examining the impact of his work since the publication of "Revisioning...
State University of New York Press, 2017. — 376 p. "Participation and the Mystery" is both an introduction to and expansion of Jorge N. Ferrer's groundbreaking work on participatory spirituality, which holds that human beings are active cocreators of spiritual phenomena, worlds, and even ultimates. After examining the impact of his work since the publication of "Revisioning...
NY: State University of New York, 2002. — 273 p. Transpersonal Theory — Now and Then The Experiential Vision of Human Spirituality The Empiricist Colonization of Spirituality Trouble in Paradise: The Perennial Philosophy Revisited The Participatory Nature of Spiritual Knowing An Ocean with Many Shores: The Challenge of Spiritual Pluralism After the Participatory Turn A More...
Vermont: Park Street Press, 2012 — 164 p. — SBN:1594774382 ISBN13: 9781594774386 Originally published in 1997 by the Council on Spiritual Practices Exciting book on the spiritual benefits of the entheogens, especially to our society. Essays by Albert Hofmann, R. Gordon Wasson, the Shulgins, Terence McKenna, Dale Pendell, Jack Kornfield, Tom Roberts, Rick Strassman, others....
Canta Cruz: Souvenir Press — 1996 — 258 p. — ISBN10: 0285648829; ISBN13: 978-0285648821 A pioneering and revolutionary book that lays the foundation for a radical new psychology, based on an expanded cartography of the human unconsciousness. Famous for his lifelong research into psychedelic drugs, Dr. Grof constructs a comprehensive and helpful framework out of the bewildering...
Santa Cruz: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) — 2006 — 356 p. — ISBN10: 0966001990; ISBN13: 978-0966001990 Beyond personal history and archetypal themes, a comprehensive psychology must also address the fundamental significance of birth and death. Stanislav Grof, M.D., renowned for his pioneering contributions regarding the psychological and spiritual...
Penguin Compass, 2000. — 592 p. — 0140195742 (ISBN13: 9780140195743) Taking a balanced, objective approach, the book depicts a broad spectrum of altered states, from the sublime to the terrifying. Included are fifty narratives about unforgettable psychedelic experiences from an international array of subjects representing all walks of life. Supplemental essays provide a...
M. Horowitz (Editor), C. Palmer (Editor) South Paris, USA: Park Street Press, 1999. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0892817585 (ISBN13: 9780892817580) Edition Language: English (first published 1977) Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. Includes letters and lectures by Aldous Huxley never published elsewhere.
New York: Grove Press, 1985. — 343 p. ISBN: 0-802-13062-3. Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for the first time tells the full and astounding story — part of it hidden till now in secret Government files — of the role the mind-altering drug played...
Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press, 1999. — 212 p. — ISBN: 0849322375 (ISBN13: 9780849322372). The editor presents a multidimensional, energy-based view of human awareness that integrates transpersonal psychology and hypnotherapy. Fear of Psychic Phenomena. Charles T. Tart Mesmerism, Hypnosis and the Human Energy Field. Eric D. Leskowitz Energy Healing and Hypnosis. Eric D. Leskowitz...
Nevada City: Gateways Books and Tapes 1996, — 208 p. — ISBN: 0895560712 (ISBN13: 9780895560711) Edition Language: English (first published June 1st 1995) A definitive series of talks by two acknowledged masters of consciousness exploration on uses of the flotation tank. Thanks for the Hallucinations, Dr.Lilly The Directions Are In the Glove Compartment From Physics To Eastern...
Nevada City: Gateways Books and Tapes, 2006. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0895561166 (ISBN13: 9780895561169). This classic work presents the methods and conclusions of more than 25 years of experimentation with the isolation tank meditative experience. Drawing on the personal testimony of many who tried it, including Burgess Meredith, Gregory Bateson, E.J. Gold & Jerry Rubin, the evidence...
British Columbia, Canada: Institute for the Study of Peak States Press, 2008. — 552 p. — ISBN: 0973468017 (ISBN13: 9780973468014) Edition Language: English The Biology of Consciousness: An Overview of the Biology of Consciousness Peak States and the Developmental Events Model The Subconscious: Triune Brains and Cell Organelles The Primary Cell : Metabolic Pathways and Peak...
Park Street Press, 2017. — 454 p. — ISBN: 9781620556986. Embracing the revival of psychedelic research and the discovery of new therapeutic uses, clinical psychologist Dr. Richard Louis Miller discusses what is happening today in psychedelic medicine — and what will happen in the future — with top researchers and thinkers in this field, including Rick Doblin, Stanislav Grof,...
NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0791457362 (ISBN13: 9780791457368) Creatively exploring the points of confluence and conflict between Western psychology and Buddhist teachings, various scholars, researchers, and therapists struggle to integrate their diverse psychological orientations psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, transpersonal...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 496 p. This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective. He also presents some philosophical reflections....
Award Books, 1967. — 194 p. — ISBN: 1502956748. "Unless I have completely misunderstood the message, this book must be looked upon as a manifesto from one generation to another-from the young to their elders. As I see it, the younger generation is telling us that it proposes to use psychedelics because it considers them appropriate instruments for living in the hurricane's eye...
Park Street Press, 2008. — 376 p. For thousands of years, voyagers of inner space - spiritual seekers, shamans, and psychoactive drug users - have returned from their inner imaginal travels reporting encounters with alien intelligences. Inner Paths to Outer Space presents an innovative examination of how we can reach these other dimensions of existence and contact otherworldly...
Park Street Press, 2001. — 358 p. — ISBN-10 9780892819270; ISBN-13 978-0892819270. A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known. A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting-edge of psychedelic research. Provides a unique scientific explanation for the phenomenon of alien abduction experiences. From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman...
NY, USA: Harper & Row Publishers, 1977 — 504 p. — ISBN: 0060904860 (ISBN13: 9780060904869) Edition Language: English Science, States of Consciousness, and Spiritual Experiences: The Need for State-Specific Sciences. Charles T. Tart Some Assumptions of Orthodox, Western Psychology. Charles T. Tart The Physical Universe, the Spiritual Universe, and the Paranormal. Charles T. Tart...
Bentham Books, 2022. — 197 p. — ISBN: 978-981-5036-47-3. Transpersonal psychology is the study of human nature and development that assumes that human beings possess potentials that exceed the limits of ego developed normally. The main goal of transpersonal psychology is to integrate the spiritual experience within a broader understanding of the human psyche and consciousness....
TarcherPerigee, 1993. — 320 p. This book is a clarion call for an expanded vision of human possibilities. In it, many of the best thinkers of our day ask us to renew the perennial search for self-knowledge and to discover the deeper meaning of our lives. For this, they offer the transpersonal perspective - which extends beyond consciousness in its myriad forms, including...
Wiley, 2000. — 306 p. Based on over twenty years of research and spiritual practice, this is a groundbreaking and life-changing book. In his decades of study, Dr. Roger Walsh has discovered that each of the great spiritual traditions has both a common goal and seven common practices to reach that goal: recognizing the sacred and divine that exist both within and around us....
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