Whether the ingestion of a psychedelic substance ultimately becomes a positive or a negative experience depends on several major factors. The most important of these is the level of trust between journeyers and the people around them—their friends, guides, and sitters.

The Numinous is a category which exists totally outside of conventional science's comprehension. Yet it is the one category of experience which is dearer to the human soul than any other, for the Numinous is the repositor of all meaning, the reason for our existence, the Logos….

During transits of Neptune, people often feel a heightened yearning to connect with the divine source. The current position of Neptune in alignment with the position of Neptune in a person's birth chart is referred to as a Neptune-Neptune transit. The most important of these are the sextile (in the mid-twenties), the square (early forties), the tri

In industrial cultures such as ours, the purposeful and achievement-oriented qualities associated with the Sun tend to be over-valued, which has created serious and damaging imbalances in the modern world. The outpouring radiance of the Sun archetype can shrivel and scorch gentle earthly life if the Moon's reflective soul does not have equal time t

Journeyers experience feelings of overwhelming scandal, disaster, betrayal, and judgment, and simultaneously, a strange sense of identifying with the perpetrating forces. They may become absolutely convinced that their process has, once and for all, gone over the line—imagining that their session is destroying the whole world or even the entire uni

In milder forms, people with unresolved amniotic memories may have a deep fear of rejection and problems bonding emotionally with other human beings.

People's birth charts record the “cosmic state” of the archetypes at the moment of their birth, reflecting patterns of experience that will unfold and express themselves in many different forms throughout their lifetimes.

Very few people, including most scientists, realize that we have absolutely no proof that consciousness is actually produced in the brain and by the brain. There is no doubt that there exists vast clinical and experimental evidence showing significant interconnections and correlations between the anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry of the brain,

As self-discovery reaches the perinatal realm, the archetypal Neptune acts as a homing beacon, pulling journeyers’ awareness back toward the numinous ground of being. As Tarnas recognized, they will have special access to the feelings of oceanic connection that Grof refers to as the Basic Perinatal Matrix I—The Amniotic Universe and Union With the