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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