Contents

1. Cover Image
2. Title Page
3. Dedication
4. Epigraph
5. Acknowledgments
6. Foreword by Ervin Laszlo
7. INTRODUCTION. 73 Days
8. CHAPTER ONE. The Path of Temporary Immersion
   1. The Therapeutic Protocol
   2. In a Philosopher’s Hands
   3. LSD Sessions as a Path of Spiritual Awakening
   4. Low-Dose vs. High-Dose Sessions
   5. LSD Sessions as a Journey of Cosmic Exploration
   6. Two Phases of a Session
   7. The Craft of Remembering
   8. Defining the Conversation
   9. The Participatory Dynamics of Disclosure
   10. Platforms of Experience
   11. Calling Down Heaven
   12. The Suffering of Death and Rebirth
9. CHAPTER TWO. Crossing the Boundary of Birth and Death
   1. The Welcoming
   2. The Perinatal Domain
   3. Ego-Death
   4. Addendum: The Perinatal Level of Consciousness
10. CHAPTER THREE. A Session Day
11. CHAPTER FOUR. The Ocean of Suffering
    1. The Ocean of Suffering
    2. The Riddle of the Ocean of Suffering
    3. On the Eve of Stopping
12. CHAPTER FIVE. Deep Time and the Soul
    1. My Life as a Completed Whole
    2. The Great Oak and the Hillside of Karma
    3. Rooted in Time
    4. Reincarnation and the Soul
    5. Stepping-Stones
    6. Stopping My Sessions
    7. Addendum: Other Instances of Future-Seeing
13. Six-Year Interval
14. CHAPTER SIX. Initiation into the Universe
    1. Expanding the Narrative—Who Is the Patient?
    2. Why Did the Suffering End?
15. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Greater Real of Archetypal Reality
    1. Entering Archetypal Reality
    2. The Living Forces of Archetypal Reality
    3. The Tissue of Our Collective Being
    4. A Note on the “Gods” of the Subtle Level
    5. Session 28
    6. The Cycle of Purification
    7. Reincarnation and Collective Purification
    8. A Note on Learning How to Learn in Psychedelic States
    9. A Flash of “God”
    10. Addendum: Plato, Jung, and Archetypes
16. CHAPTER EIGHT. A Benediction of Blessings
    1. Reflections
17. CHAPTER NINE. The Birth of the Future Human
    1. The Visions of Awakening
    2. The Great Awakening
    3. The Nonlinear Dynamics of Awakening
    4. What Form Will the Future Human Take?
    5. Another Voice: Bede Griffiths
18. CHAPTER TEN. Diamond Luminosity
    1. The Hunger to Return
    2. New Insights into the Psychedelic Process
    3. Vajrayana Buddhist Practice
    4. The Pivot
    5. The Transparency of Embodied Presence
19. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Final Vision
    1. The Good-Bye Sessions
    2. Why I Stopped My Sessions
20. CHAPTER TWELVE. Coming off the Mountain
    1. The Deep Sadness
    2. The Sickness of Silence
    3. Entering the Sweet Valley
21. APPENDIX I. What Dies and Is Reborn?
22. APPENDIX II. Pushing the Limits of Astrological Correspondence
23. Reference List
24. Footnotes
25. About the Author
26. About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
27. Books of Related Interest
28. Copyright & Permissions
29. Index