APPENDIX II

Pushing the Limits of Astrological Correspondence

Stanislav Grof and Richard Tarnas have proposed the bold hypothesis that there is a correspondence between people’s experiences in deep nonordinary states of consciousness and the rhythms of our solar system. Grof writes:

This work has shown that astrology, particularly the study of planetary transits, can predict and illuminate both the archetypal content of nonordinary states of consciousness and the timing of when particular states are most likely to occur. (Grof 2009, 51)

I embrace this proposal, and yet I also wonder whether there are limiting conditions that apply. Do the astrological correlations that hold for the early stages of our psychedelic journey hold as strongly for its later stages, after one has moved through the perinatal process and beyond ego-death? Our planetary transits reflect the moment of our birth and are therefore part of the matrix of space-time. When our sessions are repeatedly taking us beyond space-time and beyond even archetypal reality itself, does this planetary correspondence fade? Is there a roll-off effect as we move into progressively deeper states of consciousness? Or is it the case that as long as we have a body here on Earth, our entrance into any state of consciousness, no matter how expansive or far removed from physical reality, will always move in rhythm with the pulse of our personal and global transits? I consider this an open question.

To encourage this inquiry, I provide my birth information and the dates of all my sessions below. Because I have presented only some of these sessions in this volume, emphasizing the breakthrough sessions more than the intermediate sessions where much processing is done, this may not be sufficient to allow any definitive conclusions to be reached, but I hope it will contribute to the discussion of this thought-provoking issue.

Birth Information for Christopher Bache

July 4, 1949, 10:46 a.m., Vicksburg, Mississippi

Crossing the Boundary of Birth and Death

  1. November 24, 1979
  2. December 18, 1979 3.
  3. May 17, 1980
  4. July 1, 1980
  5. December 13, 1980
  6. February 27, 1981
  7. 7. July 3, 1981
  8. September 5, 1981
  9. September 26, 1981
  10. May 21, 1982

The Ocean of Suffering & Deep Time and the Soul

  1. August 4, 1982
  2. December 28, 1982
  3. February 26, 1983 14.
  4. March 25, 1983 15.
  5. April 29, 1983
  6. July 29, 1983
  7. September 3, 1983

Initiation into the Universe

  1. July 14, 1990
  2. July 29, 1990
  3. August 11, 1990
  4. January 13, 1991
  5. February 17, 1991
  6. April 27, 1991
  7. July 24, 1991

The Greater Real of Archetypal Reality

  1. August 4, 1991
  2. October 20, 1991
  3. December 8, 1991
  4. February 28, 1992 29.
  5. March 29, 1992
  6. April 5, 1992
  7. May 2, 1992
  8. June 15, 1992 33.
  9. July 18, 1992
  10. January 2, 1993
  11. January 16, 1993

A Benediction of Blessings

  1. February 20, 1993
  2. April 3, 1993 38.
  3. May 7, 1993 39.
  4. June 27, 1993
  5. August 6, 1993
  6. August 30, 1993
  7. October 1, 1993
  8. December 11, 1993

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22. February 17, 1991

23. April 27, 1991

24. July 24, 1991

28. February 28, 1992

29. March 29, 1992

31. May 2, 1992

39. June 27, 1993

43. December 11, 1993

47. July 15, 1994

55. December 15, 1995

Diamond Luminosity

  1. January 15, 1994
  2. February 18, 1994
  3. June 10, 1994
  4. July 15, 1994
  5. August 7, 1994
  6. October 7, 1994
  7. January 13, 1995
  8. March 24, 1995
  9. June 2, 1995
  10. Fall 1995 (exact date not recorded)
  11. November 3, 1995
  12. December 15, 1995
  13. January 26, 1996
  14. February 9, 1996
  15. 58. March 6, 1996
  16. March 20, 1996
  17. April 21, 1996
  18. June 15, 1996
  19. September 6, 1996
  20. October 25, 1996
  21. January 12, 1997
  22. May 15, 1997
  23. June 20, 1997
  24. August 2, 1997
  25. December 27, 1997
  26. January 10, 1998

Final Vision

  1. May 16, 1998
  2. June 13, 1998
  3. October 16, 1998
  4. February 13, 1999