Abdominal brain, 207
Abdominal Center, 160–61
Acetylcholine, 207
Acheron, 429
The Acts of Thomas, 472
Actualism, School of, 78, 93–94, 162, 249, 354
Acupuncture, 65
Addictive experiences/tendencies: contracted states of consciousness and, 298–302; definition of, 299; divination for identifying and transcending, 305–6; features of, 299–300; reinforcement and, 505–6
Affect bridge, 188
The Affluent Society (Galbraith), 38
Agni Yoga, 78, 92–93, 162. See also Light-fire yoga
AIDS, 56–57
Alchemy: Actualism and, 94; athanor (vessel), 8–9, 96; convergence of chemistry and, 34; etymology of, 5; goal of, 2, 94; history of, 6–8, 11, 94–95; opus, 10, 11–12, 96; psychotherapy vs., 96–98; shamanism and, 1–4, 11, 85, 94, 95; Taoism and, 5; transformation and, 2, 6–7, 8, 11–14, 95; yoga and, 4–5
Alcohol, effects of, 282–83
Alexander, Eben, 443
Alford, Dan Moonhawk, 533–34
Algonquian cosmology, 533–34, 539, 547, 548, 550
Allende, Salvador, 50
Allies for Awakening (Metzner), 125, 134, 139
Allwiss, 3
Alpert, Richard, 209, 353, 423. See also Dass, Ram
Alpha waves, 216, 224, 266–67, 320, 333
Al Qaeda, 70
Amaringo, Pablo, 561
Amphetamines, 280–81, 340, 342
Anamnesis, 107
Ancestors: communication with deceased, 333–34; connecting and reconciling with, 380, 399–407; spirits of, 131–35, 169
Ancestral soul council, 192–93, 198, 372, 450–54
Andromeda galaxy, 592
Angels. See also individual angels: in the celestial hierarchy, 581; childhood guardian, 568; of conception, 468; of death, 427–28; encounters with, 538, 567–68; NDEs and, 327
Anger, 297
Anicca, 224
Animal Farm (Orwell), 34
Animal realm (world), 465, 489, 494–95, 510, 518–19
Animal spirits, 128–29, 170, 200–201, 560–62, 564, 566–67
Animism, 87
Anxiety, 297
Apartheid, 32, 40, 51, 62–63, 76
Apollo, 121
Apostolic Creed, 420
Apple Computer Company, 52
Appropriation, 506
Aquinas, Thomas, 581
Arbenz, Jacobo, 36
Archangels, 581
Archetypes: of the collective unconscious, 250–51, 480; planetary, 27, 40, 291
Arica school, 458
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 62
Armstrong, Neil, 44
Arousal continuum, 276, 278, 279
Asana, 91
Ascendant, 201–2
Asclepius, 258
Asgard, 539
Ashtanga, 90
Assagioli, Roberto, 97
Astral body, 329–30
Astral projection, 329
Astrology, 8, 78, 95, 99, 182, 201–2, 380, 382, 542
Asuras realm (world), 465, 489, 493–94, 502–3, 510, 514–18
Atalanta Fugiens, 19
Athanor, 8–9
Atmosphere, 591
Atmosphere Sky World, 532, 537–40, 565–68
Attention: awareness and, 126; narrowing of, 295–97; orientation vs., 229, 231–32
Atteshlis, Stylianos, 330–31
Attractors, 127
Auditory driving, 105–6
Auguries of Innocence (Blake), 504
Augurs, 99
Aura, 144
Aurobindo, Sri, 161
Austin, John L., 212
Les Automatismes Psychologiques (Janet), 313
Autoscopy, 328
Avidya, 90, 213, 228, 263, 459–60, 473, 501
Awareness: attention and, 126; consciousness and, 223; dissociation and, 309; emotional, 290; expanding, 287–88; multiple strands of, 111, 113–14; sphere of potential, 288–89
Axis mundi, 149
Ayahuasca, 58, 59, 106, 202–3, 207, 258, 303, 316, 421, 561
Aylwin, Patricio, 61
Azrael, 428
Aztecs, 38
B
“Baby Boom” generation, 33
Bacon, Francis, 475
Baldur, 440
Baldwin, James, 38
Bardos, 272–73, 430–31, 447–48, 455, 464–68, 491
Bardo Thödol. See The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Base communities, 581–82
“Battle of Seattle,” 67
Bay of Pigs invasion, 39
The Beatles, 44
Beckett, Samuel, 38
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 171
Begin, Menachem, 54
Belladonna, 106
Benedict, Cardinal, 582
Beringer, Kurt, 21
Berry, Chuck, 37
Berry, Thomas, 83
Bhakti yoga, 90
Bhava, 501
Biko, Steve, 50
Biosphere, 591
Birth: anesthetization and, 369; BPMs (basic perinatal matrices), 361–66, 522–23; Caesarean, 369; consciousness expansion and, 293; facial musculature and, 369–70; first response at, 373–74; humanizing the process of, 376–79; memories of, 366–67, 368; orgasm and, 377–78; parallels between death and, 293, 410–13; physical factors affecting, 369–70; psychological and social factors affecting, 370–73; regressions, 370–71; trauma and, 177, 358–59, 365, 367–68, 374–76, 460, 522–23
Birth and Death, Wheel of. See Wheel of Samsara
Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (Dass, Metzner, and Bravo), 74, 77, 523
Black Panthers, 41
Blake, William, 155, 233, 292, 504, 530
Blum, William, 25
Boas, Franz, 33
Bodhisattvas, 133–34, 245, 428
Body, relationship with, 170–71
Bohm, David, 52
Botha, P. W., 51
Botkin, Allan, 441
BPMs (basic perinatal matrices), 361–66, 522–23
Brain: abdominal, 207; development, 179; left and right, 206–7, 226; mammalian, 158, 205, 297; reptilian, 160, 205, 206, 279, 344; triune, 157, 160, 205–7, 234, 344; waves, 266–68
Branch Davidian cult, 66
Brando, Marlon, 38
Bravo, Gary, 74
Breathing practices, 357–58, 366. See also Holotropic breathwork
Breuer, Joseph, 313
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 54
Das Büchlein vom Leben nach dem Tode (Fechner), 412–13
Buddha, 54, 132, 147, 177, 246, 487, 491, 492, 494, 495, 496, 498
Buddhism. See also Mahayana Buddhism; Tibetan Buddhism; Zen Buddhism: conception of the mind in, 212, 217, 503; consciousness in, 212, 220, 223–24, 271–72; death in, 483–84; impermanence in, 224, 492; “no self” in, 167; suffering in, 305
Bush, George H. W., 61
C
Caesarean births, 369
Caffeine, 280
Calcinatio, 12
California Institute of Asian Studies, 79
California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), 79, 81, 212, 509, 533
Camus, Albert, 34
Cannabis, 47, 49, 203, 341. See also Marijuana
Carson, Rachel, 44
Castro, Fidel, 39
Catholic Church: dominance of, 95; ecclesiastical hierarchy of, 581–82; Hermetic tradition and, 7; model of the psyche in, 248–49, 480
Cauldron, 150, 156, 157, 159–60, 202
Cave of the Heart, 149, 156, 157, 158–59, 162
Central vertical axis (CVA), 149, 150, 152, 187
Challenger (space shuttle), 56
Chamberlain, David, 366, 370, 383
Character traits, 191
Charon, 429
Chernobyl nuclear accident, 64
Cherubim, 581
Chi, 414
Chia, Mantak, 199
Chumash Indians, 346–47
CIA, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40, 49, 50, 54, 60, 61, 118, 257
Circadian rhythm, 261–62
Circe, 120
Civil rights movement, 37, 41, 43, 44, 46, 51, 52
Clairaudience, 146, 229, 232–33
Clairsentience, 146, 229, 232–33
Clairvoyance, 146, 155, 158, 229, 232–33, 329
Claustral complex, 366
Clinton, Bill, 61
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film), 52
Coagulatio, 12
Coca plant, 280
Cohen, Sidney, 38
COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program), 43
Cold War, 32, 35, 37, 49, 60, 62, 69
Collective unconscious, 250–51, 480
The Color Purple (Walker), 57
Columbia (space shuttle), 56
Columbine High School, 67
Compassion, as practice, 230
Compassionate witness, 153–54
Concentration, 214
Conception. See also Incarnational choice; angel of, 468; conscious and intentional, 391; parental imprints at, 388–89, 390–91; soul memories before, 393–98
Coniunctio, 12, 13, 18, 23, 143, 144, 145
Conscience, 222–23
Consciousness. See also States of consciousness: awareness and, 223; collective, revolution in, 45; conscience and, 222–23; as context and subjectivity, 227–37; contractions of, 26, 214, 295–306, 318; etymology of, 222, 227; expansions of, 25–26, 99–100, 210, 214, 285–94, 301, 302–5, 318; fields of, 238; levels of, 9, 213, 247–52; life-cycle stages and, 176, 243–45; meanings of, 222, 225–26; raising, 222, 290; selectivity of, 239; self-perception and, 223; spatial and temporal metaphors for, 223–26; unconsciousness vs., 213–14, 227–28
Consensual reality state, 259
Consumer protection movement, 44
Conversion experiences, 239
Cooper, Gary, 38
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 33
Corporations: alternatives to, 583; hierarchical organization of, 582–83
Cosmos and Psyche (Tarnas), 27, 544
Costner, Kevin, 64
Council of All Beings rituals, 82
Counterculture, flowering of, 45–47
Cousins, Norman, 36
Crabtree, Adam, 336–37
Craven, Margaret, 428
Creativity, 290
Crick, Francis, 37
Crown Center, 158
The Crucible (Miller), 38
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 322–23
Cuchuma cactus, 202
Cultural relativism, 33
Cultural Revolution, 41
Cultural unconscious, 251
D
Dances with Wolves (film), 64
Dante, 182
Daskalos, 330–31
Dass, Ram, 74, 77, 353, 415–16
Dead, communication with, 437–44
The Dead (film), 65
Dead Sea Scrolls, 34
Death. See also Near-death experiences: angel of, 427–28; consciousness expansion and, 293; experience of, 413–18; fear of, 304–5, 424, 436; guide of souls after, 427–28; mythology surrounding, 427–30; parallels between birth and, 293, 410–13; preparing for, 423–27; and rebirth, 293–94, 448, 483–84; Tibetan Buddhist teachings on, 430–31; traditional three-day transition after, 418–20; as transformation, 131
Decolonization movements, 36, 40
Deep Earth Lodge, 550
Deep Earth World, 532, 550–52, 569–70
Deep politics, 73
Deep Sky Lodge, 539
Deep Space World, 532, 544–45, 557
Deertrack, Richard, 79
Defense mechanisms, 313
Deities, 132–35. See also individual deities
Déjà vu, 311
Demeter, 186
Depressants, effects of, 280–84, 339–44
Descartes, René, 217, 248, 480
Desire-mind, 233
Different Doorway (English), 369
Dionysos, 550
Discernment vs. judgment, 229, 234–35
Discovery (space shuttle), 64
Dissociation: awareness and, 309; disorders, 310–12; drug-induced, 316–17, 345–47; in functional waking state, 318–19; in meditative states, 319–20; repression vs., 312–15; state transitions and, 214–15, 307–9; in trance states, 321–22
The Dissociation of Personality (Prince), 313
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), 311–12, 315–16
Divided Consciousness (Hilgard), 313
Divination. See also Divination journeys/meditations: asking questions and, 100–101, 110, 118–19, 125–27, 139; awareness and, 111, 113–14; cycle, fourfold, 135–37; definition of, 99, 104–5; dual movement of past and future, 114–19, 163–64; expanded state of consciousness and, 99–100; integration and, 137–39, 140, 164, 166; intelligence and, 103–4; intuition and, 102–3; Janus Model of Divination and Integration, 112, 116, 118, 163–66; meaning of, 85; in medicine, 85–86; methods of, 99, 105–10; prediction and, 104–5; preparing for, 124–25, 139; scientific method and, 101–3; spirits and, 119–22, 124, 125, 128–35, 139–40; suggestions for, 139–40; yoga and, 92
Divination journeys/meditations: for addictive tendencies, 305–6; to the animal world, 518–19; ascending octave of macrocosmic holarchies, 590–93; to the asuras realm, 514–18; to the Atmosphere Sky World, 565–68; to the Deep Earth World, 569–70; to the Deep Space World, 557; descending octave of microcosmic holarchies, 594–97; developmental octave of possible global civilization, 598–601; to the Earth Center Fire World, 557; to first response at birth, 373–74; to the heaven realm, 512–14; to the hell realm, 519–25; to the Lower Earth Worlds, 558–65; with Mimir’s Well of Memory, 188–93, 570–72; music for, 588, 603; to the parental imprints at conception, 388–89; practicing, 588–89; to the pretas realm, 525–26; seven phases of, 123–39, 556–57; to the Six Worlds of Existence, 509–26; to the Solar System World, 575–77; with the three norns, 572–75; with the Tree of Visions, 193–98; with the Tree of Worlds, 555–77; to your dying day, 416–17
Djehuti, 6
DMT (dimethyltryptamine), 202, 344
Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak), 38
Dominions, 581
The Doors of Perception (Huxley), 35
Dorn, Gerhard, 18
Dreams: analyzing content of, 258; flying, 271, 331; lucid, 229, 233–34, 271–72; meaning of, 268–71, 275; nightmares, 283–84; practices for working with, 274–75; precognitive, 270–71; recalling, 274; rehearsal, 116; REM and, 216; of a soul’s arrival, 461–63; subjective timestream for, 253–54; telepathy in, 270
Drugs. See also Psychedelics; individual drugs: criminalization of, 26, 48, 53–54, 58, 65, 68–69; dissociative states and, 345–47; stimulants and depressants, 280–84, 339–44
Drumming, shamanic, 79, 86, 100, 105–7, 108
Duvalier, François and Jean-Claude, 62
Dwat, 429
Dylan, Bob, 44
E
Earth (element), 10, 13, 20, 151
Earth (planet): composition of, 552–53; gravity and, 553–54
Earth Center Fire World, 532, 552–54, 557
Earth-diver myth, 392–93
Earthing, 10
Earth Lodge, 534
Ebola, 57
Ecological intelligence, 104
Ecopsychology, 81
Ecstasy. See MDMA
The Ecstatic Adventure (Metzner), 212
Ectoderm, 200
Ectomorphic body type, 200
Edinger, Edward, 12
Ego-death experiences, 257, 326, 359, 421–22
Einstein, Albert, 102, 141, 173
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 31, 35, 48
Elements. See also individual elements: four, 9–10; purification of the, 151–52
Eleusinian Mysteries, 15, 423–24
Eliade, Mircea, 1, 4, 86, 87, 89–90, 94
Elizabeth (mother of John the Baptist), 462
Ellis, Ed, 517
Ellsberg, Daniel, 51
Elysium, 432
Embodiment, 10
EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing), 441
The Emerald Tablet (Hermes Trismegistos), 18, 20, 120, 142
Emerson, William, 356, 365, 367, 369, 379, 391, 392, 393, 461
Emotional intelligence, 104
The Emotional Life of Nations (DeMause), 375
Empathy: importance of, 153–54; sympathy vs., 154, 229, 230
Endoderm, 200
Endomorphic body type, 200
Endorphins, 341
Endosymbiosis, 595–96
Energy: neurotransmitters and, 339–44; states of consciousness and, 276–84
Energy centers, 155–62. See also Three chambers (essence fields)
Energy field: definition of, 144; dynamic-receptive polarization of, 144–48; sphere of potential awareness and, 288
Enteric nervous system, 160, 207, 344
Entheogens, 58
Entrainment, 105–6
Environmental movement, 44, 46, 51, 52, 57
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), 51
Equal Rights Amendment, 51
Equanimity, balanced, 153–54
Ereshkigal, 549
Ergotamine, 348
Erickson, Milton, 107, 265, 308, 315, 356
Escape From Freedom (Fromm), 34
Essence fields. See Three chambers
Etheric matrix (double), 330, 331, 419
Ethnosphere, 591
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (film), 57
Eurystheus, King, 121
Expectation vs. intention, 229, 232
Exsomatosis, 330–31
Extraterrestrial civilizations. See also UFOs: communication with, 134, 148, 173, 601; visitation of Earth by, 69, 74–75, 174, 539–40
Exxon Valdez oil spill, 64
F
Family constellations therapy, 82–83
Farouk, King, 36
Farrant, Graham, 385
Fate, concept of, 198
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 43
Fechner, Gustav Theodor, 177, 246–47, 293, 351, 411–12
The Feminine Mystique (Friedan), 44
Fire (element), 10, 17, 20, 151
Fire-gazing, 564–65
First-person empiricism, 352
Fischer, Roland, 276
Flashbacks, 308
Flight or fight response, 297
Flow states, 322–23
The Forge and the Crucible (Eliade), 1, 94
Foster, Steven, 79
The Foundations of Psychohistory (DeMause), 375
Fox, Susan, 471
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 170–71
Franklin, Benjamin, 418
Freedom Rides, 41
Free speech movement, 43
Fremantle, Francesca, 464
French, Emily, 437
The French Revelation (Heagerty), 437
Freud, Sigmund, 94, 175, 209, 218, 228, 243, 249–50, 268, 313, 361, 365, 480, 483, 488
Freyja, 121
Friedan, Betty, 44
Frogs, 549
Fromm, Erich, 34
Fugue states, 310
Fuller, Buckminster, 52, 288–89, 527, 553–54
Fungal spirits, 129–30
Future: divination with the norn Urd, 573–75; divination with Tree of Visions, 193–98; time perception, 567
G
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), 340, 345
Galantamine, 120
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 38
Gamma waves, 267
Gandhi, Indira, 56
Gardner, Howard, 104
Garzón, Baltasar, 68
Gay rights movement, 44
Geber, 19
Genesis, Book of, 379
Genograms, 399–400
Gershon, Michael, 207
GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid), 345
Giants, 536–37
Gimbutas, Marija, 81
Ginsberg, Allen, 38
Glasnost, 59
Global civilization, developmental octave of possible, 598–601
Glucocorticoids, 279
Glutamate, 346
Golden Temple, 56
Goleman, Daniel, 104
Good Friday Accord, 67
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 59
Gore, Al, 67
Gospel of Thomas, 17
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin), 38
Grant, Joan, 446
The Grateful Dead, 58
Gravity, 553–54
Green psychology, 81–82
Green Psychology (Metzner), 82, 125, 251, 481
Greyson, Bruce, 326
Grof, Stanislav, 52, 80, 97, 107, 177, 304, 357, 358, 361–65, 368, 374–75, 378, 411, 424, 522
Groves, Leslie, 376
Guardian angels, 568
Gulf of Tonkin incident, 39
Gurdjieff, G. I., 28, 78, 170, 228, 292
Guyénot, Laurent, 30
H
Haley, Alex, 52
Haley, Bill, 37
Hallucinogens, 286–87
Hara center, 160
Harner, Michael, 79, 86, 87, 106, 248, 355, 529
Harrison, Kathleen, 79
Hatha yoga, 90
Hathor, 6
Heagerty, N. Riley, 437
Heart Center, 159
The Heart Sutra, 224
Heaven and Hell (Huxley), 35
Heaven realm (world), 465, 489, 491–93, 501–2, 509, 512–14
Hecate, 186
Hel, 549–50
Hellinger, Bert, 82–83, 169, 185, 259, 400
Hell realm (world), 465, 489, 496–97, 505, 510, 519–25
Hells Angels, 53
Helsinki Accords, 49
Hemingway, Ernest, 38
Hemi-Sync, 329
Henderson, James Sakej Youngblood, 533–34, 548
Hephaestos, 2
Heracles, 121
Heraclitus, 167, 224, 225, 237
Hermes Trismegistos (“Threefold Great Hermes”), 5, 6, 18, 20, 120, 142, 186
The Hermetic Museum, 16
Hierarchies: compositional containment, 584; contradiction of, 580; of corporations, 582–83; ecclesiastical, 581–82; etymology of, 581; holarchies vs., 580, 584–85, 586; military, 582; nested, 584, 585; original meaning of, 581; representations of, 584–85; sociological, 582
High Noon (film), 38
Hilgard, Ernest, 313
Hill, Anita, 62
Himalayas, 539
Hinze, Sarah, 462
Hiroshima, bombing of, 376
Ho Chi Minh, 39
Hofmann, Albert, 1, 13–14, 15, 20–23, 34, 35, 113, 144, 285–86, 423
Holarchies: concept of, 583–85; hierarchies vs., 580, 584–85, 586; macrocosmic, ascending octave of, 590–93; microcosmic, descending octave of, 594–97; recognizing, 585–86; representations of, 585
Holotropic breathwork, 80, 107, 357–58
Homeopathy, 88
Homer, 120
Hortulanus, 19
Horus, 445
Howl (Ginsberg), 38
Hubble Space Telescope, 64, 593
The Human Encounter with Death (Grof and Halifax), 424
Human realm (world), 465, 466, 489, 490–91, 501, 510–11
Humans: cells in, 595–96; evolutionary ancestry of, 38, 52, 594–95, 598; family units of, 598; kingdom of, 590–91, 594; as multidimensional spiritual beings, 141–43; organ systems of, 595; personality systems of, 143; possible global civilization of, 600–601; social evolution of, 599–600
Hume, David, 167
Hungry ghosts, 485, 497, 498, 507, 525. See also Pretas realm
Husserl, Edmund, 259
Huston, John, 64
Huxley, Aldous, 35, 41, 45, 210, 285–86, 292, 304, 353, 423, 425–27
Huxley, Laura, 425–27
Hydrocodone, 341
Hydrosphere, 591
The Hymn of the Pearl, 472–74
Hypnotherapy, 107, 188, 190, 315–16, 336
Hypnotic trance states, 355–56
I
Identity fragments, 311
I Heard the Owl Call My Name (Craven), 428
Implantation, 391–92
Incarnational choice, 456–58, 466–68, 472–74. See also Conception
Individualization, 244
Individuation, 14, 96, 244, 246
Indra, jewelled net of, 596
Induced After Death Communication (Botkin), 441
INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, 59
Ingerman, Sandra, 355
Inspiration, 332
Intelligence, 103–4
Intention: expectation vs., 229, 232; remembering, 524; role of, 15, 77, 125–27
International Planned Parenthood Federation, 34
Internet Society, 64
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (Wordsworth), 460–61
Intuition, 102–3
Ionosphere, 591
Iran-Contra affair, 61
Iraq War, 517
Island (Huxley), 425
J
Jackson, Ross, 583
Jacob’s Ladder (film), 281
Jamais vue phenomenon, 311
James, William, 125, 209, 211, 224, 231, 238–40, 325, 346, 351, 412, 506
Janet, Pierre, 313
Janiger, Oscar, 38
Janus Model of Divination and Integration, 112, 116, 118, 163–66
Jati, 501
Jensen, Frances E., 179
Jesus, 17, 132, 356, 365, 368, 420, 462, 468
Jñana yoga, 90
John Paul II, Pope, 68
Johnson, Lyndon B., 39
Jötunheim, 535
Joyce, James, 65
Judgment vs. discernment, 229, 234–35
Julien, Eric, 32
Jung, Carl Gustav, 8, 9–10, 12, 13, 20, 78, 88, 94, 96, 97, 182–83, 210, 244, 246, 250–51, 268, 269, 354, 362, 398, 480
Jupiter: characteristics of, 543; as planetary archetype, 27, 28, 291
Jurema, 574
K
Kalff, Dora, 562
Kandel, Eric, 227
Karamanlis, Konstantinos, 50
Karezza, 324
Karma, 166, 191, 198, 356, 492, 502, 551
Kast, Eric, 301
Katha Upanishad, 263
Kennedy, John F., 30, 39, 40, 41, 42, 48, 71, 425
Kennedy, Robert F., 42, 43, 48, 72
Kerberos. See Cerberus
Kerouac, Jack, 38
Kesey, Ken, 45
Kharon, 429
Khmer Rouge, 49
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 54
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 37, 41, 42, 43, 48, 71
King, Rodney, 62
Kissinger, Henry, 50
Klesas, 90
Knowing, objective vs. subjective, 229, 235–37
Knowledge: head- vs. heart-, 230–31; understanding vs., 229, 230–31
Know Your Type (Metzner), 542
Koestler, Arthur, 584
Kohlberg, Lawrence, 243
Kornfield, Jack, 291
Korten, David, 252
Koshas, 9
Krippner, Stanley, 270
Kubrick, Stanley, 44
Kwan Yin, 133
L
LaBerge, Stephen, 271
Lapis philosophorum. See Philosopher’s Stone
Lascaux cave paintings, 33
Laughing gas. See Nitrous oxide
Laughter, 524
Leakey, Louis, 38
Leakey, Richard, 52
Leary, Timothy, 40, 45, 53, 74, 77, 209, 210, 211, 217, 257, 285, 292, 353, 416, 423, 521
Lebenswelt. See Life-world
Leboyer, Frédéric, 376
Libavius, Andreas, 149
Life between lives (second bardo), 438, 447–48, 454
Life cycle: stages of, 175–86, 243–45; states of consciousness and, 176
Life path: recognizing, 407–9, 458–59; soul choosing, 458–59
Life review, 327, 434, 444–47, 454
Life-world: axis of, 149; concept of, 166–67; mapping, 168–74; personal, 511; self and, 167–68
Light-fire yoga: awareness and, 178; balancing and harmonizing the three chambers, 149–50; balancing poles of the energy field, 144–48; compassionate witness and, 153–54; methods of, 354; purification of the elements, 151–52; purifying perception with, 127–28
Limbic system, 160, 205, 206, 234, 340
Lithosphere, 591
Little, Meredith, 79
Living systems worldview, 251–52, 481
Local Group, 592
Lolita (Nabokov), 38
Lord of the Rings (Tolkein), 534
Lorenz, Konrad, 594
Lost Borders, School of, 79
Lower Earth World, 532, 547–48, 549, 558–65
LSD: bad trips with, 363; consciousness expansion and, 45, 216, 285–86, 301; criminalization of, 53, 58; discovery of, 20–23; dissociation and, 316–17; experiences with, 37, 40, 41, 113; head-brain essence field and, 202; psycholytic method and, 80; serotonin and, 342; therapeutic use of, 34–35, 38, 303, 304, 425–26; visual perception and, 289–90
Lucas, George, 52
Lumumba, Patrice, 40
Luna, Luis Eduardo, 80
Luther, Martin, 581
Lyme disease, 57
M
MacLean, Paul, 157, 160, 205–7, 234, 344
Macy, Joanna, 65, 82, 252, 457–58, 500
Magnificat prayer, 462
Magus of Strovolos, 330–31
Mahakala, 499
Mahayana Buddhism: causality in, 499–500; Six Worlds of Existence in, 488–98; three poisons in, 487–88; Twelvefold Chain of Interdependent Origination in, 488–90, 499–508
Maier, Michael, 19
The Making of a Counter-Culture (Roszak), 44
Mammalian brain, 158, 205, 297
Manic-depressive disorder, 308
Manipura, 160
Manson, Charles, 53
Maps of Consciousness (Metzner), 78, 94
Marana, 501
Marijuana, 58, 65, 283, 341. See also Cannabis
Markides, Kyriakos, 330–31
Mars: characteristics of, 543; divination journeys to, 576–77
Marshall Plan, 32
Mary (mother of Jesus), 132, 251, 462, 468
Maslow, Abraham, 97
Mau Mau rebellion, 36
Mayer, Norbert, 82
McCarthy, Eugene, 36
McKay, Matthew, 443
McKenna, Dennis, 79
McKenna, Terence, 79
McLean, John, 563
MDMA (Ecstasy): emotional awareness and, 290; as empathogen, 230; heart essence field and, 202; invention of, 80; prolactin and, 349–50; at rave dance parties, 58, 59; serotonin and, 342, 343; as stimulant, 340; therapeutic use of, 58, 68, 80, 303
The Meaning of Addiction (Peele), 299
Meditation. See also Divination journeys/meditations: attention and, 265; dissociation and association in, 319–20; mindfulness, 231, 241, 259, 319–20, 357; open focus, 320–21; replicable observations within, 241; Transcendental, 290
Mediumistic states, 215, 332–38, 475–77
Mercury (deity), 6. See also Hermes
Mercury (planet): characteristics of, 542; divination journeys to, 576–77
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 259
Mermaids, 548
Merry Pranksters, 45
Mesoderm, 200
Mesomorphic body type, 200
Meyer, Mary Pinchot, 40
Microcosmic orbit, 199
Midbrain Center, 158
Middle Earth World, 532, 534, 557, 558, 565, 577
Midrashim, 468
Miller, Arthur, 38
Mimir, 122, 187, 188–90, 537, 551, 569–72
Mindfulness meditation, 231, 241, 259, 319–20, 357
Mineral spirits, 130
Mir (space station), 64
Mitwelt, 167
Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art (Grof), 378
Moly, 120
Monkey-mind thinking, 502–3, 507
Moody, Raymond, 109–10, 325, 438–41
Moon: cycle of, 576; scientific origin story of, 540
Moon Sign, 201–2
Morgan, Elaine, 376
Morienus, 17
Morphogenetic fields, 584
Morse, Melvin, 326
Mortificatio, 12
Mosaddegh, Mohammad, 36
Mother Earth, 89
Mueller, Mickie, 184
Mukti, path of, 4
Muladhara, 161
Müller-Ebeling, Claudia, 80
Multiple personality disorder. See Dissociative identity disorder
Murrah Federal Building bombing, 66–67
Mussolini, Benito, 31
Myss, Caroline, 458
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero (Rank), 365
N
Nabokov, Vladimir, 38
Nader, Ralph, 44
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 67
Nalimov, Vasily V., 225
Nama-rupa, 503
Naranjo, Claudio, 79
Naropa, 272
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 37, 64
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 36
Nation-states, rise of, 599
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 32, 35, 62, 66
Natural intelligence, 104
Navel Center, 160
Near-death experiences (NDEs), 109–10, 215, 293, 325–28, 413, 415, 421–22, 432–36, 443, 445, 545
Neomammalian brain, 205
Neptune: characteristics of, 543; cycle of, 182; as planetary archetype, 27, 291
The New Chemical Light, 17, 19
A New Science of Life (Sheldrake), 102
Newton, Isaac, 8
Newton, Michael, 438
Nicodemus, 368
Nightmares, 283–84
9/11 attacks, 30, 70–71, 72–73, 74
Nirvana, 91, 177, 245, 246, 257
Nixon, Richard, 41, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55
Nkrumah, Kwame, 40
Nonlocality, principle of, 117–18
Noosphere, 591
Noradrenaline, 340
NOW (National Organization for Women), 44
Nuclear freeze movement, 36
Nymphs, 548
Obsession, 335
Occupy World Street (Jackson), 583
Octave: ascending, of macrocosmic holarchies, 590–93; descending, of microcosmic holarchies, 594–97; developmental, of possible global civilization, 598–601; principle of, 28–29, 586–87; of world history, 29–74
Odin, 3, 121–22, 133, 332, 440, 449, 528, 531, 537, 549, 551, 570, 571
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway), 38
Olympus, Mount, 539
Omnidirectional epistemology, 288–89
Oneness vs. wholeness, 246
On the Road (Kerouac), 38
Open Focus method, 224, 320–21
Opium, 341
Organizational Center, 160
Orgasmic birthing, 377–78
Orientation vs. attention, 229, 231–32
Orr, Leonard, 366
Orwell, George, 34
Osiris, 111, 429, 444, 445, 453, 550
Osis, Karlis, 326
Osmond, Humphry, 285
Ott, Jonathan, 79
Out-of-body experiences (OBEs), 215, 326, 328–31, 413, 421, 432
Oxycodone, 341
P
Padmas, 155
Paleomammalian brain, 205
Panic attacks, 308
Panpsychism, 87
Paracelsus, 2
Paramitas, 235
Parrish, Essie, 269
Pasternak, Boris, 38
Past lives, 356, 453–54. See also Reincarnation
PCP, 346
Peele, Stanton, 299
Pendell, Dale, 564
The Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg), 51
Perception: apperception and, 229–30; purifying, 127–28
Perestroika, 59
Perinatal psychology, 293
Peyote, 58, 107, 109, 202, 316
Philosopher’s Stone (lapis philosophorum), 14, 16–20
Plant spirits, 129–30
Pleasure-pain: neurotransmitters and, 339–44; states of consciousness and, 276–84
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), 50, 56
Pluto (deity), 550
Pluto (planet): as archetype, 27, 40; characteristics of, 543
Pomo Indians, 269
Possession, 335–38
Powers, 581
Prague Spring, 41
Pratyahara, 91
Prenatal epoch, 176–77, 244–45, 464
Prenatal experiences: as formative influences, 380–82, 384–89; hypnotic regression and, 359, 383–84; milestones of, 389–93; psychedelics and, 358
The Presence of Spirits in Madness (Van Dusen), 336
Presley, Elvis, 37
Presti, David, 339
Pretas realm (world), 465, 489, 497–98, 506, 510, 525–26
Prigogine, Ilya, 52
Prima materia, 142
Prince, Morton, 313
Principalities, 581
Prisons, outer vs. inner, 292–93
Prognosis, 86
Proof of Heaven (Alexander), 443
Proteus, 121
Proust, Marcel, 113
Pryor, Richard, 299
Pseudo-Dionysius, 581
Psilocybin: bad trips with, 362–64; consciousness expansion and, 20, 22, 285–86, 521; dissociation and, 316–17; divination and, 106; head-brain essence field and, 202; research on, 45; serotonin and, 342; therapeutic use of, 68, 303, 304, 424
The Psychedelic Experience (Leary, Metzner, and Alpert), 45, 353, 423
Psychedelics. See also individual psychedelics: bad trips with, 362–64, 422; coining of term, 285; consciousness expansion and, 210, 285–86, 301; criminalization of, 26, 48, 53–54, 58, 65, 68–69; dissociation and, 316–17; divination and, 106–8; ego-death experiences with, 421–22; emotional awareness and, 290; experimentation with, 44–45; hallucinogenic vs., 286; healing potentials of, 34–35, 38, 68, 74; intention and, 15; neurotransmitters and, 343–44; prenatal experiences and, 358; rediscovery of, 13–14; religion and, 38–39, 45, 58–59; self-transformation and, 14–16, 20; set-and-setting hypothesis for, 211, 217, 257; shamanism and, 86–87; significance of, 22–23, 25, 35, 47, 353–54; three essence fields and, 202–3; visual perception and, 289–90; yoga and, 15
Psychogenic fugues, 310
Psychosis, 257
Psychotherapy: focus of, 97–98; purpose of, 97; traditional transformation systems vs., 96–98
PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), 303, 308, 441
Purificatio, 12, 143, 146, 148, 556, 559
Purification of the elements, 151–52
Puthoff, Hal, 118
Pythagoras, 28
Q
Quintessentia, 19
R
Rabin, Yitzhak, 66
Radical empiricism, 211, 238–42, 325, 351–52
Randall, Edward, 437
Rank, Otto, 365
Rasa, 5
Rasayana, 5
Rätsch, Christian, 80
Ray, James Earl, 71
Ray, Sondra, 366
Reaction vs. response, 229, 231
Realms of the Unconscious (Nalimov), 225
Rebirth, 293–94, 448, 464–68, 484
Reformation, 581
Rehearsal dreams, 116
Reification, 167
Reincarnation: of humans and animals, 494–95; karma and, 456; near-universal acceptance of, 356; Six Worlds of Existence and, 485
Reinforcement, 505–6
Remembering Our Home (Linn et al.), 365
REM (rapid eye movements) sleep, 216, 263–64
Repression, 312–15
Reptilian brain, 160, 205, 206, 279, 344
Response vs. reaction, 229, 231
Retirement, 183
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 173
Rising Sign, 201–2
The Road to 9/11 (Scott), 73
The Road to Eleusis (Wasson et al.), 424
Roberts, Jane, 333
Rode, Christian, 82
Roerich, Nicholas, 93
Roe v. Wade, 51
The Rolling Stones, 44
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 31
Root Center, 161
Root Lodge, 547
Roots (Haley), 52
The Roots of War and Domination (Metzner), 494
Ruck, Carl, 423
Ruder, Debra, 179
Russell, Peter, 553
Ryerson, Kevin, 333
S
Sabom, Michael, 329
Sacral Center, 161
Sacred contracts, 458
Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanácatl (Metzner), 212
Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca (Metzner), 212
Sadat, Anwar, 54
Sadayatana, 503–4
Salamanders, 3
Salk, Jonas, 37
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), 41, 49
Salvia divinorum, 106
Samadhi, 91, 233, 246, 264, 319, 322
Samkhya school, 92
Samsara, etymology of, 483. See also Wheel of Samsara
San Bushmen, 117
Sandinistas, 60
SANE (Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy), 36
Sanger, Margaret, 33
Sargunas, Tatiana, 378
SARS, 57
Saturn: characteristics of, 543; exploration of, 56; as planetary archetype, 27, 40, 178; return, 178, 179–80, 188
Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, 472
Schindler’s List (film), 64
Schizophrenia, 276, 336, 340, 346
Schofield, Russell, 18, 78, 93, 103, 147, 159, 329, 354, 419, 553
Schutz, Will, 79
Schwaller de Lubicz, R. A., 6
Schwarzalben, 3
Schwarzalfheim, 3
Scientific method, 101–3
Scopolamine, 346
Scott, Peter Dale, 73
Scrying, 109
SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), 43
Sea River World, 532, 548–50, 561–62
The Second Brain (Gershon), 207
Seed, John, 82
Seeking Jordan (McKay), 443
Self, concept of, 167–68
Sengstan, 153
Seraphim, 581
Set-and-setting model, 211, 217–18, 255, 256, 257–58
Seth, 333
Sexual abuse, 309–10
Sexual experience: attention and, 296; biochemical and hormonal basis of, 324, 348–50; dissociation and association in, 323–24
Shabda yoga, 90
Shakespeare, William, 437–38, 475–77, 479, 492
Shakti, 133
Shamanic journeys: after-death realms and, 355; birth experience and, 355; cosmology of, 479–80; as metaphor, 11, 86, 225; methods for inducing, 11, 86–87, 354–55; outline of, 354; upward vs. downward, 530–31
Shamanism: alchemy and, 1–4, 11, 85, 94, 95; as archaic techniques of ecstasy, 86; drumming and, 79, 86, 100, 105–7, 108; healing transformation and, 4; history of, 85; multiple worlds and, 87–88, 248, 479–80; psychoactive plants and fungi in, 86–87; psychotherapy vs., 96–98; scientific materialism vs., 87–88; spirits and, 87, 88–89, 200–201; yoga and, 85, 95
Shasta, Mount, 568
Sheldon, William, 200
Sheldrake, Rupert, 52, 102, 289, 579, 584
Shiva Ardhanarisvara, 144, 145
Shock, 322
Siddhis, 232
Silent Spring (Carson), 44
Simpson, O. J., 66
Sinai, Mount, 539
Singing, 524–25
Sirens, 548–49
Sitchin, Zecharia, 539
The Six Pathways of Destiny (Metzner), 458
Six Worlds of Existence: chief characteristics of, 465; divination journeys to, 509–26; levels of meaning for, 485–86; in Mahayana Buddhism, 484–85, 488–98
Sleep: attention and, 265; brain waves in, 267–68; debt, 274; practices for working with, 274–75; transitions from/to, 261, 262–63, 287; ultradian cycle in, 263–65
Smith, Huston, 45
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), 41
Snowdrop, 120
Social intelligence, 104
Solar Plexus Center, 159
Solar System World, 532, 540–44, 575–77
Solidarity trade union, 54–55, 59
Solutio, 11–12, 13, 14, 145, 291, 572
Somatotypes, 200
Sonic driving, 220
Soul: choice of family and life path by, 396–98, 456–59, 462–63; levels of, 9; memories, 357, 393–98, 460–61
Soul communion, 399, 457, 458, 461
Soul infusion, 458
Soul loss, 114
Soviet Union, collapse of, 60, 61, 62, 69
Sparsa, 504
Spirits: of ancestors, 131–35, 169; animal, 128–29, 170, 200–201, 560, 561–62, 564, 566–67; in Atmosphere Sky World, 538–39; communicating with, 148; divination and, 119–22, 124, 125, 128–35; of the four directions, 124; invoking, 128–35, 139–40, 556–57; mediumship and, 333–35; of mineral and elemental realms, 130; of place, 124, 125, 172; plant and fungal, 129–30; possession, 335–38; recognition of reality of, 88; shamanism and, 87, 88–89
Spiritual addiction, 302
Spiritual development, stages of, 177, 245–47
Spiritual intelligence, 104
Stalin, Joseph, 35
Stamets, Paul, 79
Star Center, 158
Star Trek (television series), 43–44
Star Wars (film), 52
States of consciousness. See also State transitions: altered, 11, 105, 216–21, 254–57, 260; definition of, 253; energy and, 276–84; levels of consciousness vs., 213; pleasure-pain and, 276–84; radical empiricism and, 240–42; recognizing, 220–21, 254–55, 260, 285; set-and-setting model of, 255, 256, 257–58; shamanic, 86; Six Worlds of Existence and, 485; subjective timestream for, 253–54, 285; unusual, 238–39, 325
State transitions: dissociation and, 214–15, 307–9; identifying, 254; language for, 220, 262; somatic symptoms of, 307–8
Steiner, Rudolf, 9
Stimulants, effects of, 280–84, 339–44
Stolaroff, Myron, 426
Stone Mountain World, 532, 545–47, 563–64
Stonewall Inn riot, 44
Stories of the Unborn Soul (Hallett), 394–95
The Stranger (Camus), 34
Strassman, Rick, 344
A Streetcar Named Desire (film), 38
Stupa, 150
Styx (river), 429
Sublimatio, 12
Summerland, 432
Sun Sign, 201–2
Sunyata, 223–24
Sushupti, 264
Svapna, 264
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 336, 542, 543, 544, 577
Swimme, Brian, 83, 540, 544, 553
Sylphs, 538
Sympathy vs. empathy, 154, 229, 230
Synchronicity, 20
Synergy, 75–76
Systems worldview, 583–84
T
Tacitus, 121
Tan t’ien, 199
Tantra yoga, 90, 92, 93, 145, 162, 203, 266, 319, 324, 354
Taoism, 5, 19, 78, 92, 199, 224, 354
Targ, Russell, 117–18
Technosphere, 591
The Tempest (Shakespeare), 492–93
Tesla, Nikola, 28
Thales, 224
Thanatology, 293
Thatcher, Margaret, 55
THC, 341
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), 229, 365
Thetis, 121
Thinking, conditioned vs. mindful, 229, 233
Third eye, 158
Thomas, Clarence, 62
Thor, 3
Three chambers (essence fields). See also Cauldron; Cave of the Heart; Upper Chamber: astrological indicators and, 201–2; balancing and harmonizing, 149–50; in Chinese Taoism, 199; diagram of, 156; energy centers within, 156, 157–62; as lenses, 155; neuroanatomy of, 205–7; psychedelic/entheogenic substances and, 202–3; shamanic allies and, 200–201; somatotypes and, 200
Three Mile Island nuclear accident, 55
Throat Center, 158
Thrones, 581
Through the Gateway of the Heart (Metzner), 212
Thymus Center, 159
Tiananmen Square, occupation of, 61
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thödol), 210, 272, 353, 362, 414, 423, 430–31, 447–48, 453, 454, 463, 464–68, 501
Tibetan Buddhism, 78, 93, 210, 261, 272, 319, 327, 430–31, 459, 568
Time, cycles of, 124–25
Toads, 549
Tolkein, J. R., 534
Tonetti-Vladimirova, Elena, 378
Trance states, 105, 215, 321–22, 333, 334–35, 355–56
Transcendence, 421–22
Transcendental Meditation (TM), 290
Tree of Visions, future divination with, 193–98
Triune brain theory, 157, 160, 205–7, 234, 344
Truman, Harry, 376
Truman Doctrine, 32
Tryptophan, 342
Turiya, 264
Twelvefold Chain of Interdependent Origination, 488–90, 499–508
2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 44
U
Udan. See Odin
UFOs, 29, 32, 33, 69, 134, 539. See also Extraterrestrial civilizations
Ullman, Montague, 270
Ultradian cycle, 263–66
Umbanda religion, 334
Umwelt, 167
The Unanswered Question (Leland), 428
Underhill, Evelyn, 245
Understanding vs. knowledge, 229, 230–31
The Unfolding Self (Metzner), 79, 392, 530
Universe, galaxies in, 593
The Universe Story (Berry and Swimme), 83
Unsafe at Any Speed (Nader), 44
Upadana, 506
Upper Chamber, 149, 156, 157–58
Uranus: characteristics of, 543; cycle of, 181, 182; as planetary archetype, 27, 28, 40, 182, 291
Urion, David K., 179
V
Valium, 340
Vanaheim, 535
Van Dusen, Wilson, 336
Van Gogh, Vincent, 335
The Varieties of Religious Experience (James), 239
Vectors, 127
Vedana, 505
Venus: characteristics of, 542–43; divination journeys to, 576–77
Verres, Rolf, 82
Vietnam war, 39, 41, 43, 45, 49, 51
Vijñana, 502
Village cultures, 599
Vipassana. See Mindfulness meditation
Virgil, 182
Virgo supercluster, 592
Virtues, 581
Vishnu, 494
Voodoo, 335
Voyager I (space probe), 56
Vulcanus, 2
W
Waite, A. E., 16
Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 38
Waking state: attention and, 264–65; brain wave variations in, 266–68; dissociation and, 318–19; transitions from/to, 261, 262–63, 287; ultradian cycle in, 265–66
Walker, Alice, 57
Walker, Kit, 474
Wallace, Alfred Russell, 594
Wasson, R. Gordon, 15, 38, 423
Water (element), 10, 13, 17, 20, 151
Watergate scandal, 50
Watt, James, 55
Watts, Alan, 45
Weil, Andrew, 357
Well of Memory: divinations with, 569–72; guardian spirit of, 122, 187; myth of, 122, 187
The Well of Remembrance (Metzner), 81, 133, 187, 332, 449, 533, 546, 551
Whale breathing, 563
Wheel of Samsara (Birth and Death): hub of, 487–88; Six Worlds of Existence in, 464–65, 484–85, 488–98, 509–26; as teaching tool, 485, 522; Twelvefold Chain of Interdependent Origination in, 488–90, 499–508
Wholeness vs. oneness, 246
Wilber, Ken, 245–46
Winged Pharaoh (Grant), 446
Witchcraft, 95
Woden. See Odin
Women’s liberation movement, 44, 46, 290
Woodstock festival, 44
Wordsworth, William, 460
Work-aholism, 301
World history, octave of, 29–74
World Social Forum, 76
World Tree: divination journeys with, 555–77; guardian spirit of, 122, 187; meanings of, 528–29; of nine worlds, 531–54; Norse-Germanic, 528, 531; Well of Memory and, 122, 187
World War II, 20, 25, 27, 29, 31, 71, 375–76, 385
Wotan. See Odin
Y
Yeltsin, Boris, 60
Yoga. See also Light-fire yoga: alchemy and, 4–5; conception of the mind in, 217; definition of, 90; different practices of, 90; divination and, 92; eight limbs of, 90–91; etymology of, 90; goal of, 91–92; psychedelic substances and, 15; psychotherapy vs., 96–98; replicable observations within, 241; shamanism and, 85, 95; transformation and, 95; worldview of, 89–90
Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (Eliade), 90
The Yogas of the Six Bardos (Naropa), 272
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 90, 232–33, 319
Z
Zachariah, 468
Zapatistas (EZLN) rebellion, 67