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Index
Cover Contents Also by Ralph Metzner Preface
Author’s Note
Prologue: The Quest for the Philosopher’s Stone Footnotes Part One: Transformations of Collective Consciousness: An Octave of World History from 1945 to 2001
Do: 1945–1952
Global and US Politics Culture, Science, Technology, and Psychedelics
Re: 1953–1960
Global and US Politics Culture, Science, Technology, and Psychedelics
Mi: 1961–1969
Global and US Politics Culture, Science, Technology, and Psychedelics
Fa: 1970–1977
Global and US Politics Culture, Science, Technology, and Psychedelics
Sol: 1977–1984
Global and US Politics Culture, Science, Technology, and Psychedelics
La: 1985–1992
Global and US Politics Culture, Science, Technology, and Psychedelics
Si: 1993–2001
Global and US Politics
September 11, 2001: The End of the Octave and the End of an Era
Footnotes Part Two: Alchemical Divination: Accessing Your Spiritual Intelligence for Healing and Guidance
chapter 1: Shamanism, Yoga, and Alchemy chapter 2: What Is Divination?
Divination and the Scientific Method Intuition, Intelligence, and Prediction Divination, Altered States, and Psychedelics The Multiple Strands of Awareness The Dual Movement of Past and Future Divinations Mythic Deities and Spirits of Divination
chapter 3: The Seven Phases of Divination Rituals
(1) Preparing the Place and Aligning with the Spirits of Space and Time (2) Articulating and Clarifying the Intention or Question (3) Purifying Perception with Light-Fire Yoga and Connecting with Spiritual Intelligence (4) Invoking the Spirit Allies from the Animal, Plant, Fungal, and Mineral Worlds (5) Invoking the Spirits of Ancestors and Human Relations, as well as Elders, Spirit Guides, and Deities (6) The Fourfold Divination Cycle (7) The Integration Phase Suggestions for Divination Practice
chapter 4: Alchemical Light-Fire Yoga
Balancing Dynamic and Receptive Poles of the Energy Field Balancing and Harmonizing the Three Chambers Transmutation of the Elements in the Cave of the Heart Cultivating the Attitude of the Compassionate Witness
chapter 5: The Three Chambers or Essence Fields chapter 6: The Life-World and Self-System
Integrating into the Present
The Janus Model
Mapping Our Present Life-World of Relations
chapter 7: Stages of the Life Cycle
The Formative Phase The Middle Phase The Elder Phase
chapter 8: The Well of Memory and the Tree of Visions
Memory Divination with Mimir’s Well Future Divination with the Tree of Visions
Appendix A: Associations with the Three Energy Fields
The Three Tan T’ien in Chinese Taoism The Three Somatotypes Shamanic Allies—Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles Astrological Indicators—Sun, Ascendant, and Moon Psychedelic/Entheogenic Substances
Appendix B: Neuroanatomy of the Three Chambers
Paul MacLean’s Triune Brain Theory Abdominal Brain or Enteric Nervous System
Footnotes Part Three: MindSpace and TimeStream: Understanding and Navigating Your States of Consciousness
chapter 1: Altered States chapter 2: Consciousness, Space, and Time chapter 3: Consciousness as Context and Subjectivity
Objective and Subjective Knowing
chapter 4: Radical Empiricism chapter 5: States, Stages, and Levels of Consciousness
Stages of Development in the Life Cycle Stages of Spiritual Growth The Paradigm of Levels or Dimensions of Consciousness
chapter 6: The Set and Setting Model chapter 7: Waking, Sleeping, Dreaming, Meditating
The Ultradian Cycle in Sleep and Wakefulness Brain Wave Variations in the Waking State What Do Dreams Mean?
chapter 8: The Dimensions of Energy and Pleasure-Pain
Psychoactive Stimulants and Depressants
chapter 9: Expansions of Consciousness chapter 10: Contractions of Consciousness
Receptive and Active Addictions and Compulsions Consciousness Expansion for Healing Contracted States
chapter 11: Dissociation and State Transitions
Dissociative Disorders The Difference Between Dissociation and Repression Hypnosis and the Treatment of DID Dissociation in Psychedelic Drug States
chapter 12: Dissociation and Association in Various States
Functional Waking State Meditative States Open Focus Attention Training Absorptive Trance States Flow States Sexual Experience
chapter 13: NDEs, OBEs, and Mediumistic States
NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) OBEs (Out-of-Body Experiences) Spiritual Practices Involving Intentional OBEs Mediumistic States
Appendix A: Neurochemical and Hormonal Correlates of the Two Dimensions Appendix B: Dissociative Drug States Appendix C: Biochemical and Hormonal Basis of Sexual Experience
Footnotes Part Four: The Life Cycle of the Human Soul: Incarnation—Conception—Birth—Death—Hereafter—Reincarnation
chapter 1: Birth—Traumatic Realities, Ecstatic Potentials
Physical, Psychological, and Social Factors Affecting Birth Traumatic Birth and Collective Psychopathology Water Birthing and Ecstatic or Orgasmic Birthing
chapter 2: Prenatal Imprints and Ancestral Connections
Milestones of the Prenatal Journey Soul Memories from Before Conception Connecting and Reconciling with the Ancestors Recognizing One’s Life Path and Purpose
chapter 3: Death and Hereafter
The Experience of Dying The Tradition of the Three-Day Transition Near-Death, Ego-Death, and Transcendence New and Ancient Ways of Preparing for Dying Mythic Guides and Guardians of the Land of the Dead Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on Death and the Afterlife
chapter 4: Life Between Lives
Communication Between the Living and the Spirits of the Dead The Life Review in Egyptian Afterdeath Teachings The Second Bardo in the Tibetan Buddhist Afterdeath Teachings The Council of Ancestral Souls and Guiding Spirits
chapter 5: From Incarnation to Conception and Rebirth
Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on the Bardo of Rebirth The Angel Lailah—Midwife of Souls
Appendix: On the Mediumship of William Shakespeare
Footnotes Part Five: The Six Worlds of Existence in Mahayana Buddhism
chapter 1: The Wheel of Birth and Death
The Hub of the Wheel of Existence The Six Worlds of Existence and Consciousness The Twelvefold Chain of Interdependent Origination
chapter 2: Divination Journeys to the Six Worlds of Existence
Journeys to the Heaven Realm Journeys to the Realm of the Violent Asuras Journeys to the Animal World Journeys to the Hell Realm and Finding the Exits Journeys to the Realm of Frustrated Craving
Footnotes Part Six: The World Tree and the World Axis
chapter 1: The Cosmic World Tree in Myth and Science
The Axial Tree of Nine Worlds Other Realms in the Middle World Upper World Realms and Flying Spirits The World of the Solar System The Deep Space World Lower World Realms and Subterranean Spirits The Deep Earth World, Mimir, and the Three Norns The Earth Center Fire World
chapter 2: Divination Journeys with the Tree of Worlds
Seven Phases of Divination Journeys Divination Journeys to the Lower Earth Worlds Divination Journeys to the Atmosphere Sky World Divination Journeys to the Deep Earth World Divinations with Mimir and the Well of Memory Divination with the Three Norns Divination Journeys to the Solar System World
Footnotes Part Seven: Octave Holarchies: Divination Meditations
chapter 1: Hierarchies, Holarchies, and Octaves
Hierarchies Holarchies Octave Holarchy Meditations
chapter 2: Ascending Octave of Macrocosmic Holarchies chapter 3: Descending Octave of Microcosmic Holarchies chapter 4: Developmental Octave of a Possible Global Civilization
Footnotes
Appendix A: Selected Recordings Used in Divination Journeys Appendix B: Historical Publication Note Bibliography Index
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