Index
All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.
Absolute Light, 255, 262
afterlife, 98–99, 264
archetypal reality
categories of experiences in, 147
as cluster of levels, 144
demand of opening to, 149
energy of, 145, 154–55
entering, 144–47
escalating power in, 148
Living Forces in, 147–49
meltdown, 153–55
as species identity, 145
archetypes, 143, 150, 169–70
awakening. See also Great Awakening
collective, 131, 223–26
humanity, sounds of, 288, 289–90
LSD sessions as path to, 11–15
nonlinear dynamics of, 227–30
Basic Perinatal Matrix (BPM), 43–44, 57
bhaktian devotion, 76–77
birth information for Christopher Bache, 321–23
Black Elk, 210, 275
breadth and depth, 189–90
Buddha Womb, 186
Buddhism, 49, 144, 175, 202, 238, 259–61, 271
Causal Oneness, 194–95. See also Oneness
causal reality, 33–34
chaos, 47, 62, 119, 158–59, 167–68, 178
Chöd, 258–61
Clarity, 237, 254–55, 267–68
cleansing phase, 22–23
clusters of experience, 74–75
COEX system, 57, 75, 137, 256, 313
collective awakening, 131, 223–26
collective being, 149–52
collective energy, 157
collective fields, 137, 157, 174, 192
collective healing process, 136
collective model, 136–37
collective purification, 162–65
collective thoughtform, 152
collective transformation, 137, 139, 220
collective wound, healing the, 132–35
coming off the mountain, 299–309
consciousness
breadth of, 20
causal level of, 33–34, 160
collective, 137
contraction of, 296–97
depth of, 20
Diamond Soul, 206
discrete levels of, 156
as infinite ocean of experiential possibilities, 30
perinatal level of, 41, 46–51, 56–59
psychic level of, 33
states of, 13, 32, 38, 160
subtle level of, 33
conversation, defining for this book, 27–29
Cosmic Beings, 126, 129
cosmic communion, 318
Cosmic Tour, 113–16, 126
Cosmic Tree, 112–13
cosmological narrative, 28
Council of Elders, 116–19
Creative Intelligence, 35, 91, 195, 212, 219–20, 222, 302
crisis and resolution, 44–46
critical discernment, 10
cycle of death and rebirth, 38, 161
Dark Night, Early Dawn, 136, 138–39, 165, 208, 230, 308–9, 317
death. See also ego-death
in accessing worlds, 37
confrontation with, 56–57
consciously choosing, 242
crystal of, 241–43
emerging on other side of, 128
existential confrontation with, 46
forms at transpersonal levels, 140
as intense purification, 161
struggle with, 108–9
unbounded expansiveness and, 185
death and rebirth
author experience of, 51–56
cycle of, 38, 161
dimension of the cosmos, 316–18
ego, 312
at multiple levels of consciousness, 140
process of, 59
shamanic persona, 313–16
species ego, 312–13
spiral of, 138–41
successive, pattern of, 316
suffering of, 36–39
two tiers of, 138
death state, 245–46
Deep Time, 79–81, 82–83, 131, 297, 311
Diamond Consciousness, 181, 262, 264, 267, 283
Diamond Light, 182, 202, 237, 241, 255, 263
Diamond Luminosity
beyond, 255
Clarity, 254–55
versus collective awakening, 224–25
defined, 237, 238
ecstasy, waves of, 253
emergence of, 237
ending the sessions and, 295
experience of classroom, 271
integrating more deeply, 262–69
in and out of space-time and, 254
Pure Light of, 256
purification and, 263
sessions containing, 239
as session 50 name, 239
Vajrayana practice and, 261–62
Diamond Maker, 282–83
Diamond Soul
awakening on Earth, 204–5
birth of, 176–83, 200–206
consciousness, 206
defined, 202
Great Awakening and, 231
nature and, 203
vision of, 231
Diamond Vision, 289–93
disclosure, 29–31
Divine, the
integration of transcendent and immanent, 304
loss of communion with, 301
love affair with, 21
pain and suffering and, 110–11
transparency to, 290–91
wants to be known, 26
Divine Love, 129–30, 190–91, 212–13
Divine Oneness, 256
dosage, 16–17
doshas, 151
dying
in all directions, 245
degrees of, 241
experience of, 193–94
of keeping, 301, 311
Dying into Oneness, 123–25
ecstatic phase, 22–23
ego-death, 51–56, 139–40, 209, 294, 313, 316
embodied Presence, transparency of, 269–70
emptiness, 21, 144, 175–77, 187, 269–70
energetic momentum, 23
experiences
in classroom, 195–99
of collective being, 152
courage and, 13–14
high-dose sessions and, 18–19
insights from, 29
mother/infant, 132
platforms of, 31–34
profound, training to receive, 25
structural flow of, 249–50
theory and, 135
transformative value of, 14
female experience, 51–54, 65–66
final vision, 276–84
Forest vision, 172–75
FORMS, 280–82, 283
four stages of birth, 57–59
Future Human, 126, 152, 209, 218–19, 231–34, 273, 283–84
future-seeing, 95–101
Gilding, Paul, 229–30
global trajectory, 208
God. See Divine, the
Goddess, 120–21
Great Awakening
core scenario, 222–23
defined, 209
Diamond Soul and, 231
mechanisms of our collective awakening and, 223
session, 220–26
suffering and, 226–27
vision, test of, 230
Griffiths, Bede, 234–35
Grof, Stanislav
Basic Perinatal Matrix (BPM), 43–44, 57
clusters of experience, 74–75
COEX system, 57
on collective episodes, 139
on death at transpersonal levels, 140
first introduction to, 3
mapping of psychedelic experiences, 29
meeting, 105
on nonordinary states and solar system, 23, 320
perinatal level of consciousness and, 41, 46–51, 56–59
on physical symptoms of perinatal engagement, 48–49
stages of biological birth defined by, 58
on use of “perinatal” term, 140
guiding intelligence, 214–16
high-dose sessions, 17–19, 27
Hillside of Karma, 85–86
Huxley, Aldous, 40
Hyper-Clarity, 237, 255, 267, 272
“immeasurable impartiality,” 268–69
individual model, 135–36
infusion from above, 318
integration, 262–69, 299–300, 303–4, 306
interlaced mind-fields, 155–58
James, William, 10, 25
Jung, Carl, 84, 137, 143, 149–50, 169–70, 301, 306
karma, 86, 163, 217
killing of children, 53–55, 68
learning
by becoming, 37
circle of, 112
fields of, 199
how to learn in psychedelic states, 165–66
radical, 166
from sessions, 309–10
in transpersonal states of awareness, 117
life
dissolving into Light, 266
evolving, order and design of, 213
flow of energy into, 93, 94
as oak tree, 84–85
scripts, 97, 100
spiritual distillation of, 50
life circle, 244–45, 265–66
Lifecycles, 91, 105, 162, 201–3, 308
Light, 34, 236, 265–68, 290
Living Classroom, The, 195–200, 300
Living Forces, 147–49
Lommel, Pim van, 310
love
at creation of the universe, 130
Divine Love, 129–30, 190–91, 212–13
mother/infant experiences, 132
suffering and, 130, 132
low-dose sessions, 17–19
LSD. See also psychedelics
choice of, 11
long time window, 30
mind sensitivity while on, 24
states of awareness and, 41
Luminous Clarity, 267–68
master plan, 126, 127–32
matter, 179–80, 187
memory
clusters of, 74–75
continuity of, 43
future, 97
memory matrix, 43–44
META-COEX system, 75, 136–37, 242–43, 313
Metzner, Ralph, 17–18
mother/infant experiences, 132
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), 2
Mystical Experience Questionnaire, 25
Nature of Mind, 273–74
near-death experiences (NDEs), 96–97, 101
Newton, Michael, 98–101, 204
Ngöndro, 49
nirvana and samsara, 288
Ocean of Mind, 270
ocean of suffering. See also suffering
cleansing, 106
end of, 69, 141
enduring, 79
as foundation, 143–44
interpretation of, 74–76
opening to, 111
rejection and acceptance of, 77–78
riddle of, 74–76
sessions 11–15, 71–73
Oneness, 34, 49, 121, 174, 194–95, 256
Pahnke, Walter, 236–37
pain. See suffering
Paradise, 177–78
past-life therapy, 98–101
path of immersion, 13
path of meditation, 13
peak experiences, 13
perinatal domain
birth and death and, 56–57
defined, 46
experience of, 47
negative experiences, 49
physical symptoms, 48–49
philosophical method of author, 10–11
plateau experiences, 13
platforms of experience
causal, 32, 33–34
defined, 31
psychic, 32, 33
subtle, 32, 33
Plato, 142–43, 147, 169–70
prebirth level during session, 251–53
Prigogine, Ilya, 227
psychedelic exploration, 16–17
psychedelics
cultural pivot around, 2–3
legally sanctioned research on, 4–5
philosophical value of, 3
scientific and intellectual inquiry into, 2
therapeutic value of, 3
psychedelic therapy, 15–16
psycholytic therapy, 15
purification
collective, 162–65, 217–18
cycle of, 158–61
death as, 161
Diamond Luminosity and, 263
as “pay me now or pay me later,” 49
of shamanic dismemberment, 160
Realms of the Human Unconscious (Grof), 3
rebirth, 90. See also death and rebirth
“Red Book,” 26
reincarnation
collective purification and, 162–65
as evolutionary driver, 204
of human species, author’s visionary experience of, 164
as lives emerging/returning to the Soul, 91
as natural fact, 89–90
relationships, 87–88
remembering, craft of, 24–26
Ring, Kenneth, 96–97, 227
Ring of Destiny, 99–101
Russell, Peter, 227
sacred awareness, 36
session day
Carol (author’s ex-wife) and, 61–63, 64–67
end of, 66–67
food, 66–67
music, 60–61
room, 60–61
seizures, 63
struggle, 64–65
session notes
session 1, 43
session 2, 44
session 3, 44
session 4, 45–46
session 5, 47
session 6, 49–51
session 9, 51–52
session 10, 53–54
session 11, 71, 82–83, 84, 87
session 12, 71, 88
session 13, 72
session 14, 72–73, 85–86, 92–93
session 15, 73, 86, 93–94
session 16, 94
session 17, 77–78, 287
session 18, 107–10
session 19, 111–16
session 20, 116–19, 162–63
session 21, 119–25
session 22 and 23, 127–31
session 23, 186–88
session 24, 132–35
session 25, 145–47
session 26, 148, 165–66
session 27, 150–51
session 28, 153–58, 159
session 29, 163–64
session 30, 151
session 32, 159
session 33, 167–68
session 36, 172–75
session 38, 176–83
session 40, 183–86
session 42, 188–91
session 43, 191
session 44, 241–43
session 45, 244–46, 258
session 46, 247–48
session 47, 262
session 48, 249
session 49, 198–99
session 50, 250–55
session 55, 220–26
session 57, 263–64
session 60, 265–68
session 63, 270–71
session 65, 269–70
session 66, 271–74
session 70, 276–84
session 72, 285–88
session 73, 289–93
sessions
building on one another, 28
control and, 43
critical assessment of, 9
exploration of questions in, 21
goodbye, 284–93
integration of, 299–300, 303
as journey of cosmic exploration, 20–22
layers of, 9
learning from, 309–10
low-dose versus high-dose, 15–19
pain as an ally and, 37
as path to spiritual awakening, 11–15
peaks, 27
psychedelic exploration, 16
reason for stopping, 293–95
recording, 24–25
stopping, 94–95
therapeutically structured, 12–13
two phases of, 22–24
sessions 1–10
ego-death, 51–56
killing of children, 53–55
names of, 42
perinatal domain, 46–51
welcoming, 42–46
sessions 11–17
collective anguish, 68–69
entering Deep Time, 82–83
on eve of stopping, 76–78
interpretation of suffering, 74–76
jolts of non-being, 93–94
metaphysical insights, 92–94
names of, 82
ocean of suffering, 69, 70–73
reincarnation and the soul, 88–91
rooted in time, work, and
relationships, 86–88
self-generated fields of experiences, 94
stepping-stones, 92–94
touching the center of being, 92–93
sessions 18–24
circle of learning, 112
Cosmic Lovers, 129–30
Cosmic Tour, 113–16, 126
Cosmic Tree, 112–13
Council of Elders, 116–19
Dying into Oneness, 119–25
healing the collective wound, 132–35
master plan, 127–32
names of, 107
our collective awakening, 131
overview of, 106–7
you and I creating, 107–10
sessions 25–33
archetypal meltdown, 153–55
collective being, 149–52
cycle of purification, 158–61
entering archetypal reality, 144
flash of “God,” 166–68
“Gods” of the subtle level, 152–58
interlaced mind-fields, 155–58
Living Forces, 147–49
names of, 144
reincarnation and collective purification, 162–65
sessions 36–43
birth of the Diamond Soul, 176–83
Divine Love, 190–91
Forest vision, 172–75
Jesus’ blood, 188–91
names of, 171–72
Paradise, 177–78
singing the universe away, 183–86
void, the, 185–88
sessions 44–69
crystal of death, 241–43
death state, 245–46
Diamond Luminosity, 250–57
Future Human, 273
heaven and hell, 263–64
hunger to return, 246–48
integrating Diamond Luminosity, 262–69
life circle, 244–45
names of, 239
Nature of Mind, 271–74
pivot toward integration, 262–69
psychedelic process insights, 248–50
teaching without selves present, 270–71
transparency of embodied Presence, 269–70
Universal Field of Light, 265–68
sessions 70–73
Diamond Maker, 282–83
Diamond Vision, 289, 292–93
final vision, 276–84
fruits of my labors, 285–88
Future Human, 283–84
good-bye sessions, 276, 284–93
names of, 276
nirvana, 288
sounds of humanity’s awakening, 288, 289–90
transparent to the Divine, 288–89, 290–91
Womb of Creation, 289, 291–92
shadow, confronting, 37
shamanic persona, 313–16, 317
shamanic self, 314–15
Sheldrake, Rupert, 170, 227, 314
silence, sickness of, 305–9
Soul, the, 91, 99, 233
soul age, 87
soul family, 98–99
Soul-Individuality, 283
sounds of humanity’s awakening, 288, 289–90
species ego, 312–13
species soul, 162
spiritual universe, 35
Sri Aurobindo, 34, 35, 318
Stevenson, Ian, 89, 91
suffering. See also ocean of suffering
becoming larger than, 134
of death and rebirth, 36–39
the Divine and, 110–11
Great Awakening and, 226–27
love and, 130, 132
rejection and acceptance of, 77–78
surrender, 8, 26, 37, 43, 47, 65, 174
sweetness, 109–10
Tara Mandala, 258, 299
Tarnas, Richard, 23, 169, 227, 228–29, 320
Tauler, Johannes, 160
therapeutic protocol, 8–9
time, 80–81, 86–88. See also Deep Time
title, this book, 6
transcendence, 303
transparent to the Divine, 288–89, 290–91
unified field, 163–64, 214, 216
Universal Field of Light, 265–68
universe, the
becoming, 122–23
disappearance of, 185
as outside reality, 113–16, 126
physical, 122, 124
Vajrayana Buddhist practice, 257–62, 294
Visions of Awakening
all humanity, 213–14
collective purification, 217–18
defined, 211
Divine Love, 212–13
Future Human, 209, 218–19
Great Awakening, 220–26
guiding intelligence, 214–16
names of sessions including, 211
single being, 216–17
Void, the, 186–88
Void-Beyond, the, 185, 186
von Franz, Marie-Louise, 137
Wilber, Ken, 13, 32, 317
Womb of Creation, 289, 291–92