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October 9, 2026
Susan Cameron
Psychedelics have re-emerged in this century as a popular substance to use by people of different ages and socio-economic status. The reasons for use vary between recreational and treatment focused. The Controlled Substance Act of 1970, signed by then President Richard Nixon, created a ban on the use of these substances in the United States, but advocates have found reason to revisit the...
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September 16, 2026
Kathryn Rickard
This chapter examines Contemplation within Releasement Level B of the psychoanalytic model of surrender, describing a shift in the manner in which attention is held rather than the establishment of a reflective or stabilized state. Following the disruptions of Ecstasy and Doubt , what becomes possible is the capacity to remain with unfolding experience without immediately organizing,...
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May 22, 2026
Claire Petitmengin
This chapter aims at presenting micro-phenomenology, a concrete “introspective” method enabling us to become aware of usually unrecognized dimensions of our lived experience, to describe them with rigor and precision, and to detect possible generic experiential structures. After a description of its origins, the chapter presents the devices used by the method to elicit the process of becoming...
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April 28, 2025
Charmaine Husum
This chapter provides an overview of what individuals may encounter during a psychedelic journey, emphasizing that each experience is unique and influenced by factors such as mindset, environment, dosage, and the type of psychedelic used. Common experiences include vivid visual effects, enhanced sensory perception, feelings of euphoria, ego dissolution, introspection, emotional release, and...
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April 28, 2025
Charmaine Husum
This chapter explores the profound effects that non-ordinary states, particularly those induced by psychedelics, have on the brain. It highlights how psychedelics influence neural pathways, rerouting them to foster personal growth and address conditions like addiction and depression. Key mechanisms, such as the suppression of the default mode network (DMN), increased brain connectivity, and...
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April 28, 2025
Charmaine Husum
This chapter provides a comprehensive guide to integrating and grounding after a psychedelic journey. Grounding is essential for solidifying the insights gained from a non-ordinary state of consciousness (NOSC) and ensuring they contribute to lasting healing and transformation. The chapter emphasizes the importance of rebuilding your aura and energetic field, which can become vulnerable after...
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October 22, 2024
Jan Benda
This chapter delves into the profound implications of intensive meditation and psychedelic experiences on the journey toward non-dual awareness and the evolution of the Transcendent Self. It underscores the transformative potential of deep meditative states, facilitated through constant mindfulness, as gateways to unveiling the transient nature of consciousness and the essence of our existence....
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March 31, 2011
Geoffrey Nelson
Creativity Religion has its origins in certain types of human experience. Those which have to be categorised as religious include both mystical and psychic experiences, as well as those more heavily charged with emotional impressions. They range from inner experiences of at-oneness with God or the Absolute, through feelings of the presence of supernatural beings, to trance experiences and...
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March 17, 2011
David R. Matteson
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace. . .and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centered on the body.
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August 4, 2005
Harvie Ferguson
The various elements of experience, spread out across the surface of life, generate a field of forces through which the interconnected ego becomes aware of itself, and represents itself, as a distinctive form. At the same time these energetic flows tend to deform and dissolve the ego, breaking into its precarious inner unity and returning its constituent parts to an elemental primary process....
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August 2, 2004
Shari A. Cohn-Simmen
A premonition is an experience which appears to anticipate a future event and which could not reasonably have been inferred from information available before that later event. The premonition may consist of apparent actual detailed knowledge of a later event, or a non-specific feeling of foreboding that something will happen. The more neutral term precognition is often applied in scientific...
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June 2, 2004
Kevin A. Fall, Janice Miner Holden, Andre Marquis
For much of his career, Ken Wilber developed his ideas in association with \nthe field of transpersonal psychology, although he has not called himself a \ntranspersonal thinker, per se, for nearly 20 years. Yet one of the outstanding \nfeatures of his theory, which he has termed integral, is its explicit inclusion of \na transpersonal dimension of psychological and spiritual experience. The...
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September 2, 2003
Bhikkhu Phra Khantipalo
In this chapter only five meditation subjects will be described, though traditionally there are forty.1 Many of these are little used or only occasionally employed in special circumstances. Those which are given here are the commonest meditation subjects used in Buddhist countries at the present time. Two of them, Loving-kindness and the Recollection of the Buddha, lead when developed to calm...
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January 4, 2002
Lionel Corbett
The religious literature recognizes that spiritual experience may occur in at least two ways. It may be acquired by human effort, or an experience of the divine may be directly instilled into the soul passively, without human effort, as an act of grace. The hard work of everyday attention to, and amplification of, intrapsychic material belongs to the former category, while sudden, unforeseen...