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Abandonment, 55

Aboriginal cultures, 105, 107, 108, 159; and animal spirits, 148, 149; and ceremonial magic, 189–93; healing rites of, 110–11, 175; and hexing, 175

Abortion, 37, 114

Abstraction, 10

Acupuncture meridians, 145, 146

Aggression, 58, 62, 63, 67, 207, 208, 211, 220, 221

Agony and ecstasy, and birth, 60, 63–64

Agpoa, Tony, 191

Air, 162

Alcohol, 43

Alcoholism, 74, 208

Aliens (film), 54

Allah, 164

Altered states, 13, 18, 20, 22, 23, 156; and group identification, 93–96

Amber, 107

Ancestors, experience of and identification with, 120–23

Andreasson family, 187

Anima, 157, 158, 178

Animal(s), 18, 79; ancestors, 116; and birth process, 29; identification with, 98–100, 149–50; power, 141, 148, 150, 177; spirit guides, 148–51

Animus, 157, 178

Ankh, 162

Anthropology, 11, 20, 189–93, 201, 203

Anthroposophists, 132

Apollo, 42

Apollo 9 space mission, 96–98

Apparitions, 141, 182

Archetypes and archetypal experience, 42, 48, 52, 114, 156–60, 173; consciousness of, 173; deities, 88; encountered during death-rebirth, 160 and group identification, 94–96; religious, 159–60; universal examples of, 157–59; wrathful vs. blissful, 160. See also Mythology

Aristotle, 203

Arms race, 220

Armstrong, Anne, 139

Arnold, Kenneth, 185

Arrigo (psychic surgeon), 191

Art, 43–44, 169–70; perinatal themes in, 54, 66–67

Artistic impulse and inspiration, 167, 169–70. See also Creative principle

Assagioli, Roberto, 153

Asthma, 24, 207

Astral realm, 142, 143

Astrophysics, 6, 17

Atheism, 18

Athletes, 175, 181–82

Atoms, 4, 5, 6, 105, 168

Auras, 141, 145, 146

Automatic writing, 142

 

Babinski response, 23

Babylonia, 203

Bailey, Alice, 153

Bardo body, 138

Basic Perinatal Matrice (BPM), 28–30

Basic Perinatal Matrice I (BPM I), 30, 33–44; author’s experience of, 33–37; biological and psychological features of, 37–39; and bad womb, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44; ecstasy and cosmic unity in, 39–40; good womb, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44; and postnatal life, 43; and transpersonal experience, 41–43

Basic Perinatal Matrice II (BPM II), 45–56, 212–13, 218; artistic expression of, 54; spiritual and religious imagery of, 52–54; and victim role, 54–55

Basic Perinatal Matrice III (BPM III), 57–207, 213, 218, 220; and art, 66–67; link with postnatal experience, 67–68; mythological and spiritual themes of, 65–66; and roots of violence, 62–63, 67; scatological impressions of, 61, 65, 67; and sexuality, 60–61, 63–64, 67; titanic themes of, 61–62, 67

Basic Perinatal Matrice IV (BPM IV), 69–79; biological realities of, 72–73; ego death and rebirth, 73–78; mythology of death and rebirth, 75; religious and mythical symbolism in, 75–76

Bateson, Gregory, 11, 92–93, 109, 150

Bender, Hans, 183, 184

Bennett, Hal Zina, 150–51

Beyond that is Within, 75, 76

Bible, the, 53, 158, 170

Big Bang theory, 114

Bilocation, 195

Biofeedback, 13, 195

Biographical realm and material, 21–24, 25, 206

Biosphere, consciousness of, 103—4

Birth, process and experience, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 27, 45–79; agony and ecstasy of, 60, 63–64; anesthesia during, 208; breech, 72, 73; caesarean section, 78; difficult, 47, 78, 208; and dual unity, 91; induced, 78; and Kundalini experience, 146–47; moment of, 69–73; premature, 78; and sexual arousal, 57, 60, 67; uncomplicated, 78; universal experience of, 29. See also Basic Perinatal Matrices; Pregnancy; Womb

Birth trauma, 42–44, 207, 209; and human violence, 212—15

Blood pressure, 195

Body: Bardo, 138; heat, 180; work, 22

Bohm, David, 8–10

Bolen, Jean Shinoda, 159

Botanical processes, identification with, 100–103

BPMs. See Basic Perinatal Matrices

Brahma, 160

Brain, 4–5, 10, 11, 13, 79, 83, 202, 206

Brazil, 142, 191

Breast: bad, 43; good, 76

Breathing: infant’s first, 73; problems with, 24

Buddha, 42, 53, 160, 170

Buddhism, 21, 132, 146, 159, 164, 180, 193

 

Caesarean section, 78

Cain and Abel, 158

Campbell, Joseph, 141, 156, 159, 160, 190

Camus, Albert, 50

Cannon, Walter B., 192

Caribbean, 193

Catholicism, 127

Causality, 12, 89, 174–78

Cells, 5

Central nervous system, 5

Chakras, 141, 145, 146

Channeling, 152—55; artistic, 169; of literature, 152–53, 169

Chanting, 147, 148, 190

Childbirth. See Birth

Childhood, 16, 20, 21–24, 28, 43, 214; of parents, identification with, 118–20

Chinese medicine, 146

Christ, 53, 54, 65, 70, 75, 96, 159, 161, 162, 170, 180

Christianity, 21, 162; and birth process, 52–53; and reincarnation, 126, 132–33; symbolism of, 70–72

Christian mysticism, 179–80

Church of Latter Day Saints, 153

Circumcision, 203

Clairvoyance, 135, 139

COEX systems, 24–28

Collective experience, 123–26

Collective unconscious, 12, 21, 25, 29, 79, 85, 113, 119, 123, 155, 156, 161, 173; and UFOs, 186

Communism, 217

Concentration camp syndrome, 218–19

Conception, 115–16

Consciousness, 3–6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17; cosmic, 15, 18, 134, 163–70, 202–3; expansion beyond everyday concept of time and space, 87, 88; non-ordinary states of consciousness, 13, 18, 20, 22, 23, 93–96, 156; research, 11, 12, 19, 84, 89, 156, 202

Cosmic consciousness, 15, 18, 134, 163–70, 202–3

Cosmic unity, 17, 88; in BPM I, 39–40; planet as, 109–11

Course in Miracles, A (Schucman), 153

Creative principle, 11, 16, 163–70

Creator, 163, 166, 167. See also God

Crime, 220

Criminal behavior, 207, 216

Crisis, psychospiritual, 14, 19, 78, 135, 149, 178, 209, 221

Crucifixion, 65, 70, 75, 162

Crystals, 107–8

Curanderos, 191

Cybernetics, 11, 109

 

Dancing, 125, 148, 190

Darkness, 159–60. See also Evil

Dead, communication with, 141–45

Death, 49, 53; and dying, 13; ego, 73–74, 75, 160, 178; linked with birth, 47, 50, 51; return from clinical, 135;; and sexuality, 64. See also Near-death experiences

Death and rebirth, psychological, 17, 72–76, 203, 217, 220; archetypal beings encountered during, 160

Deities, 65, 66, 72, 75, 159. See also Goddesses; Gods

Delusions, 178

De Mause, Lloyd, 214–15

Demons, 42, 72

Depression, 24, 50, 131, 205, 207

Depth psychology, 12, 162, 214

Descartes, René, 170

Diamonds, 106, 107, 108

Diptheria, 24

Discarnate entities, 143

Discourse on Method (Descartes), 170

Disease: and animal spirits, 148; auras used to diagnose, 146. See aslo Emotional disorders; Symptoms

Divine Beings, 72, 76

Dreams, 12, 149, 161, 174; analysis of, 149, 162, 210

Dreamtime World, 159

Drug addiction, 74, 208

Drumming, 190

Dual unity, 91, 92, 114, 117, 123

 

Earth, 162; consciousness of, 109–11; experience of pre-human history of, 113

Eastern spiritual philosophy, 13, 16, 17, 21, 168, 203. See aslo specific names

Ecology, 219, 220, 221

Ecstasy, 43, 208; and agony in birth, 60, 63–64; and BPM I, 39–44; identification during, 91; oceanic, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45; religious, 179–80; volcanic, 40, 63

Ectoplasmic formations, 182

Edelstein, Harold, 187

Ego, 21, 31, 36, 87; death, 73–74, 75, 160, 178; false, 74; skin-encapsulated, 91

Egypt, ancient, 126

Einstein, Albert, 4, 7, 8, 90, 169, 179

Electra complex, 158

Electrons, 6

Electroshock therapy, 205

Eleusinian mysteries, 203

Embryonal experience, 114—16. See aslo Fetal experience

Emmanuel’s Books (Rodegast), 153

Emotional: life, 25; shocks, 91

Emotional disorders, 204–9, 218; roots of, in past lives, 133

Empathy, 92

Emptiness, 170–71

Energy, 7, 10

Energy fields of subtle body, 145–48

Energy resources, 220

Epilepsy, 195

Erogenous zones, 55, 67, 78

Esalen Institute, 20, 92, 142, 177

ESP (extra-sensory perception), 13, 134–39

Evil, 40, 41, 48, 58, 65, 159–60

Existentialism, 50

Experience, non-verbal, 19

Experiential psychotherapy, 13, 14, 19, 22, 30, 42, 43, 135, 202, 205, 207

Explicate order, 8

Extraterrestrials, 48, 185–88

 

Faces of the Enemy, The (Keen), 215

Fairy tales, 158, 161

Family, 21, 43, 55. See aslo Ancestors

Father, 157; identification with, 118–19

Fear, 22

Feminine principles, 163

Fertility rites, 64, 66

Fetal experience, 33–44, 114–18; ecstasy in, 39–44; and unity with mother, 91, 92, 114, 117. See aslo Basic Perinatal Matrices; Birth; Womb

Fetishes, 148, 150

Fire, 102, 162; consciousness of, 104, 106; as purifying, 66; as sacred, 108

Fire of Love, 180

Firewalking, 193

Free-association, 22

Freud, Sigmund, 14, 16, 22, 60, 67, 158, 159, 207; and dream analysis, 162

Freudian analysis, 12, 20, 73, 210

Fromm, Erich, 211

 

Gaia theory, 109–11

Garrett, Eileen, 144

Gasparetto, Luiz Antonio, 142, 143

Geller, Uri, 196

Genetic code, ancestral memories imprinted on, 122–23

Genocide, 212

Ghosts, 174

Giger, Hansreudi, 54, 66

Global crisis, 219–20

God. 70, 71, 72, 76, 169, 170

Goddesses, 76, 102, 159, 161, 178

Goddesses in Every Woman (Bolen), 159

Gods, 75, 161; inanimate objects of, 108; plant, 103

Gods in Every Man (Bolen), 159

Good, 65

Grant, Joan, 129

Great Mother Goddesses, 42, 76, 102, 110, 159, 178

Greece, ancient, 52, 75, 132

Green, Elmer and Alyce, 194–95

Grof, Christina, 20, 92–93, 146–47, 177–78

Guardian spirits, 148–51, 177

 

Hades, 159

Hallucinations, 178; mass, 179

Harary, Keith, 138

Harner, Michael, 13, 177

Hauntings, 182

Healers, spiritual, 191

Healing: by aboriginals, 110–11, 175; ceremonies, 191, 203; of inner self, 210; and past-life experience, 130–31; psychokinetic, 195; rituals, 110–11

Hell, 53

Hexing, 175, 192

Higher Power, 74

Himalayan hermits, 180, 193

Hinduism, 108, 132, 134, 146, 157, 161, 162, 163, 193

Hiroshima, bombing of, 215

Hitler, Adolph, 214, 216, 219

Holograms, 7, 8, 9

Holography, 7–10

Holomovement, 9, 10

Holotropic Breathwork, 14, 20, 22, 23

Home, Daniel Douglas, 180, 182

Homeopathy, 105, 206

Humanistic psychology, 22

Humanity, identification with all of, 96–98

Hussein, Saddam, 219

Huxley, Aldous, 21, 107, 141, 203

Hynek, Allen, 187

Hyperspace, 188

Hypnosis, 187, 202; regression, 14; therapy, 129

Hysteria, 67, 207

 

Identification, 91–98; with all of humanity, 96–98; with all of life, 103–4; in altered states, 93; with ancestors, 120–23; with animals, 98–100, 207; with archetypes, 160–61; and dual unity, 91–92; with group consciousness, 93–96; with inanimate matter and inorganic processes, 104–9; with parents’ childhood, 118–20

Implicate order, 8, 9

Inanimate matter, 104–9

India, and reincarnation, 132; scripture of, 146

Individual consciousness, 22, 25

Infancy, 16, 19, 20, 21–24, 43

Inner core, 85–86

Inspiration. See Creative principle

Institute for the Study of the Frontiers of Psychology and Psychohygiene, 183

International Psychoanalytic Association, 14

Intrauterine experience. See Fetal experience; Womb

Isis, 76, 159, 162, 203

Islam, 21

 

Jainism, 132

James, William, 86

Jeans, James, 7

Judaism, 21

Jung, C.G., 12, 21, 29, 31, 39, 79, 84–87, 119, 123, 152, 153, 161, 204, 211, 219; and archetypes, 156, 157; and synchronicities, 173–75, 176, 177, 178–79; and UFOs, 186; and universal symbols, 162

 

Kabbalah, 162, 164

Kali, 161

Kammerer, Paul, 176

Kardec, Allen, 142

Karmic experience, 42, 43, 87, 113, 114, 126, 131, 134

Keen, Sam, 215

Kelsey, Dennys, 129

Kennedy, John F., 214

Khomeini, Ayatollah, 219

Kirkegaard, Søren, 50

Koran, 152–53

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth, 137

Kulagina, Nina, 195

Kundalini experience, 146–48

 

Languages: and experience of other lives, 125; and mystical terms, 164

Lao-tsu, 164

Laser, 7

Legends, 158

Levitation, 180, 182, 195

Life, 10; evolution of, 5; -threatening experience, 25

Light, 10, 74, 76, 159–60; and crystals, 107; at moment of death, 15

Lila, 157

Literature: channeled, 152–53, 169; perinatal themes in, 54, 66; religious and spiritual, 132–33, 134

Logic, 13; double, 190

Love, 91, 166, 167

Lovelock, J. E., 109–10

Lovers, archetype, 157, 158

LSD, 12, 15, 21, 119; author’s experience with, 15–16; therapy using, 16–17, 118, 120, 121, 135, 144

Luminosity, of body, 175, 179

 

Magic, ceremonial, 175

Mahayan Buddhism, 164

Manifestations, 175, 179–80, 182–84

Mantras, 147

Marriage, 203, 220

Masculine principles, 163

Maslow, Abraham, 40, 77, 85–86

Mass psychopathology, 212

Materialism, 4, 75, 219

Materializations, 182

Matsuwa, Don Jose, 190

Matter, 4–12, 83, 201; identification with inanimate, 104–9; relationship to human consciousness, 201–4

Maya, 94–96, 158

Medicine, 201, 205, 206

Medicine men, 194. See aslo Shamans

Meditation, 14, 147, 202, 205

Mediums, 142–45, 180, 182, 183

Memories. See COEX systems

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung), 89, 152, 173

Memory, 139

Mendeleev, Dmitri, 168

Menninger Foundation, 194

Mental disease, 205, 209

Mental health, 204–9

Mescaline, 50

Messages from Michael (Yarbo), 153

Metals, 106, 110; as sacred objects, 106–8

Metamorphosis, 100

Migraine headaches, 24, 131, 195, 207

Military leaders, 214–17

Miscarriage, 37, 114

Mohammed, 153, 170

Molecules, 5, 105

Moody, Raymond, 137

Mormons, 153

Morphogenetic fields, 11, 150

Moses, 170

Moslems, 152

Mother(s), 73; archetypal, 57–58, 60, 157; good, 157

Mother and child, unity between, during pregnancy, 37, 59–60, 91, 92, 118, 119–20

Mother Goddesses, 42, 76, 102, 110, 159, 178

Movies, perinatal themes in, 54, 66–67

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 169

Muktananda, Swami, 147, 177

Murphy, Michael, 180, 181

Mushrooms, 103

Music, 77; perinatal themes in, 66

Musical inspiration, 169–70

Mystical: experience, 16, 19, 77, 164; literature, 93

Mysticism, 13, 203; Christian, 179–80

Mythic realities, 156–60

Mythology, 17, 18, 35, 39, 79, 116, 141; archetypes of, 156–60; and behaviour of nations, 219; and birth process, 29, 65–66; of death and rebirth, 75; Greek, 52; motifs and themes of, 61–62, 219

Myths to Live By (Campbell), 159

 

Nadis, 145, 146

NASA, 109–10

Native Americans, 103, 105, 123–24, 148, 150, 190, 194

Nature: form in, 11; identification with, 104–9

Near-death experiences (NDEs), 14, 24, 135, 137, 138, 142, 202

Neurophysiology, 10, 11

Neurosis, 206

Neurotics, 205

Neutrons, 6

New Age Transformations: Revelations (Spangler), 153

Newtonian science, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 91, 133, 168, 175, 179, 197, 201, 204

Numinous experience, 39, 166, 204

Nursing of baby, 43, 45; and dual unity, 91, 92

 

Obsessive-compulsive neurosis, 67

Occult, 109, 220

Oceanic ecstasy, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 63, 114

Oedipus complex, 158, 159

Omega experience, 14

O’Neill, Eugene, 90

Orgasm, 67

Origen, 132

Osiris, 162, 203

Out-of-body experiences (OOBEs), 134–39

Oversoul, 134

 

Pahnke, Walter N., 143–44, 191

Palladino, Eusapia, 180, 182

Paradise, 35, 39, 106

Parallel universes, 155

Paramahansa Yogananda, 180

Parapsychology, 13, 20, 134–39

Parents, identification with childhood of, 118–20

Past life experiences, 25, 42, 113, 126–34, 207; and healing, 130–31; and LSD, 17

Peak experience, 40, 77, 85

Pearl Harbor, attack on. 214–15

Pechorskaya Lavra, 128–30

Penfield, Wilder, 202

Perceptions: inner, 25, 77; world, 25, 77, 86

Perinatal experience, 28–30, 33–44, 178, 207, 212; and human violence, 212–17. See aslo Basic Perinatal Matrices; Birth

Peyote, 103

Phallic worship, 64, 66

Philippines, 142, 191

Philosophy, 50, 76, 201, 203

Phobias, 24, 67, 131, 207

Photosynthesis, 101, 102

Phylogenetic experience, 114

Physics, 179, 189, 195

Pio, Padre, 180

Plant(s), 18; gods, 103; identification with, 100–103; psychedelic, 103

Plato, 203

Pleroma, 85

Pneumonia, 24

Poetry, spiritual, 165

Political science, 214

Pollution, 220

Poltergeists, 174, 175, 182, 183–84

Pornography, 64

Power, 75

Power animals, 141, 148, 149, 150, 177

Pratt, Gaither, 184

Precognition, 135

Pregnancy, 33–44, 114–18; and dual unity, 91, 92, 114, 117; ecstasy during, 39–44. See aslo Basic Perinatal Matrices;

Pribam, Karl, 10

Promethean impulse, 168–70

Prophets, 170, 209

Prostitution, temple, 64, 66, 67

Protons, 6

Psyche: cartography of, 20–21; transpersonal domain of, 41

Psychedelic(s), 14, 103; research, 12, 202; therapy, 14, 19, 26, 50, 205

Psychiatric Research Institute, Prague, 16

Psychiatry: mainstream, 18, 27, 28, 178, 179, 201, 204, 205, 206; as medical discipline, 204

Psychics, 20, 142, 195–96

Psychic Side of Sports, The (Murphy; White), 181

Psychic surgery, 191–92

Psychoactive substances, 91, 103, 135

Psychoanalysis, 14, 16, 22

Psychohistory, 214–15

Psychoid, defined, 173

Psychoid experiences, 87, 88, 173–97; physical manifestations, 175, 179–89; psychokinesis, 189–95; synchronicities, 175–79; three categories of, 175. See aslo Poltergeists; UFOs

Psychokinesis, 174, 175, 189–95; research on, 195–96

Psychology, 11, 12, 201, 204; depth, 12, 162, 214; traditional, 27–28, 79, 179

Psychopathology, 212, 216

Psychosis, 208

Psychosomatic disorders, 24, 25, 131, 204–9

Psychosynthesis, 153

Psychotherapy, 22, 178, 201, 205, 209–11; and non-ordinary states of consciousness, 210–11

Psychotics, 205, 206

Puthoff, Harold, 138

 

Quantum physics, 8, 174, 179, 189, 195, 197

 

Racial experiences, 123–26

Rain ceremonies, 189, 190, 191

Rape, 63, 66, 67, 218

Rationality, 13

Reality, 8–10; consensus, 5; explicate and implicate orders of, 8; nature of, 13, 139

Rebirth, spiritual, 72–76. See aslo Death and rebirth

Reincarnation, 126, 127, 128, 131–34

Relativity, theory of, 4, 17, 169

Religions, world, 17, 76, 152–53, 170, 201, 204; archetypes of, 159—60; creator and cosmic conciousness in, 163–64; and reincarnation, 126, 127, 132–33

Religious scriptures, 65, 93, 106, 170, 179; channeled, 152–53

Remote viewing, 138–39

Repression, 22

Resurrection, 70–71, 75

Revolutions, 213–17, 220

Rhine, R. B., 182

Ring, Kenneth, 14, 137

Rites of passage, 203

Rituals, 190

Roberts, Jane, 153

Roll, William, 184

RSPK (recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis), 183–84

 

Sabom, Michael, 137

Sadomasochism, 24, 60, 207, 216; and birth process, 61, 62–63

St. Bernadette of Lourdes, 180

St. Francis of Assisi, 132, 180

Saint Hildegard von Bingen, 165

St. Paul, 170

St. Theresa of Avila, 180

Saints, 179–80, 209

Sartre, Jean Paul, 50

Satan, 159

Satanic practices, 58, 64–65

Scatology, 61, 65, 67, 216, 218, 220

Schucman, Helen, 153

Schwarz, Jack, 139, 146, 194

Schweickart, Rusty, 96–98

Science, traditional Western, 11, 12, 13, 18, 21, 170, 174, 176, 178, 202

Scriptures. See Religious scriptures

Seances, 175, 182

Self, 90; divine, 76, 78; inner core, 85–86; as part of universe, 90

Self-destructive behavior, 62, 63, 67, 216

Senses, physical, 4, 5, 13, 18, 83, 84, 86, 89, 202

Serios, Ted, 196

“Seth” books, 153

Seven Sermons for the Dead (Jung), 85, 153, 179

Sex(ual), 37, 220; abuse, 216, 218; deviations and disorders, 61, 67, 207; linked to birth, 58, 67; symbols, 162

Sexual arousal: associated with pain and aggression, 207; and birth process, 57, 60, 67

Sexuality: beginnings of, 207–8; and birth experience, 60–61, 63–64, 67; and death, 64; and transcendence, 64

Shadow of the self, 157, 213–17, 157

Shakti, 146

Shamanism, 13, 14, 19, 21, 148, 149, 150, 203

Shamans, 20, 107, 177, 190, 191, 209

Sheldrake, Rupert, 11, 149

Shiva, 108, 162

Siddhis, 175, 195

Sikhism, 132

Simonton, Carl, 92–93

Smith, Joseph, 153

Societies: violence in, 211–19

Solar system, 114

Space, 7, 87, 135–36, 137

Space-time, 7, 202; and UFOs, 188

Speaking in tongues, 125, 142, 147

Spell casting, 192

Spirit guides, 141, 151–55

Spiritist Church, 142

Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN), 209

Spiritual Emergency. See Crisis Spiritualistic experiences, 142–45

Spirituality, 13, 52–54, 204

Spiritual literature, 93, 106, 132–33, 134, 164, 170, 175, 179, 189

Spiritual systems, 16; ancient, 17, 19, 21

Sports: psychoid experiences in, 175, 181–82

Stars: as symbol, 162–63

“Star Trek” (TV series), 155

Star Wars (films), 155

Stevenson, Ian, 133

Stigmata, 180

Stones, 106, 110; as sacred objects, 106–8

Sublimation, 77

Subtle bodies, 145

Suffocation, 59, 60

Sufism, 164, 180

Suicidal behavior, 208

Sun: as deity, 108

Superego, 62, 216

Superstition, 204

Suprahuman beings, 151–55

Supreme Being, 160

Surgery: psychic, 191–92

Surrender, 74

Swastika, 162, 219

Symbolic experiences, 149, 150

Symbolism, 219; deciphering universal, 162–63

Symptoms: of disease and/or healing, 205–6

Synchronicity, 12, 133, 174, 175–79

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (Jung), 176

 

Tantric traditions, 91, 163, 193

Tao, 135, 136, 164

Taoism, 21, 76, 108, 163, 164, 193

Targ, Russell, 138

Tart, Charles, 138

Tat tvam asi, 35, 76, 164

Telekinesis, 91

Telepathy, 135; communication with dead, 142

Tesla, Nicola, 169

Thanatology, 14, 20, 135, 137, 202

Theosophists, 132

Thomas, Lewis, 109

Tibetan Book of the Dead, 135, 138, 160

Tibetan Buddhism, 108, 180

Tibetan Vajrayana, 132

Time, 7, 18, 87, 135–37; and ESP, 134; linear, 45, 51; transcendence of, 94–96, 113–39

Toilet training, 67

Token of espousal, 180

Torah, 170

Trance states, 192, 202

Transcendence, 64; of time, 94–96, 113–39

Transformation, 87–88, 216, 217, 221

Transpersonal consciousness, 79, 83—88; exploring and mapping, 86—88

Trauma, 21, 22, 206, 207; physical, 24, 26–27. See aslo Birth trauma

 

UFOs (unidentified flying objects), 155–56, 174, 175, 184–89

Umbilical cord, 72, 73

Unconscious: individual, 22, 25; mind, 14, 16. See aslo Collective unconscious

Universal symbols, 162–63

Universe, 4, 5, 7; at one with, 35, 36, 38, 39; experiencing pre-human history of, 114; parallel, 155; self as part of, 90

Upanishads, 35, 40, 76, 164

U.S. Air Force, 185, 187

Uterus, 59

Uyeshiba, Morehei, 181–82

 

Vallee, Jacques, 187–88

Vedas, 152, 170

Verbal skills, 19

Victim role, 54–55, 62

Violence, 218, 219; and birth process, 62–63, 67; history of human, 211–19; sexual, 216

Virgin Mary, 76, 159

“The Visionary Experience” (Huxley), 107

Visions, 12, 17, 42, 93, 149, 161, 169, 170, 174

Void, cosmic, 170–71

Voodoo rituals, 193

 

Wars, 67, 212–17, 220

Water, 110, 162; consciousness of, 104, 106

Watts, Alan, 74

Wholeness and the Implicate Order (Bohm), 9

Whooping cough, 24

Witchcraft, 58, 64–65, 220

Witchdoctors, 192

Womb, 46–47; bad, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44; good, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 76. See aslo Basic Perinatal Matrices; Pregnancy

World War II, 217–19

 

Yeats, William Butler, 12

Yin-yang symbol, 163

Yoga, 21, 91, 125, 148–49

Yogis, 180; supernatural feats of, 175, 193–95

 

Zen Buddhism, 76

Zoroastrianism, 132

Zuni people, 105, 148, 150