Sublime

Bill Richards, a preternaturally cheerful man in his seventies, is a bridge between the two eras of psychedelic therapy.

Of course, what usually happens is that the intense perinatal emotions that would ideally be faced in a condensed form during a single holotropic session will, in everyday life, be spread out and experienced in a diluted way over the course of weeks, months, or years. Instead of experiencing the BPM II feelings of compression, entrapment, and meani

Koestler concludes from his examination of our history of institutionalized violence as a species that some form of pharmacological intervention will be necessary before we can be at peace with one another. He proceeds to make an argument for conscious and scientifically managed psychopharmacological intervention in the life of society that has gra

“Bad trips” are very real and can be one of “the most challenging experiences

Holotropic research suggests that one of the major sources of this unnecessary or malignant pool of aggression is in the perinatal layer of the psyche, based on the life-and-death struggle during labor—archetypally related to both Mars and Pluto. As Grof notes, aggression is a natural response of any organism subjected to life-threatening suffocati

Good and bad, heaven and hell, no longer become external or idealistic places or principles but rather psychological potentials.

The next layer of experiences that people encounter in deep self-exploration Grof termed the perinatal layer (from peri, meaning “surrounding” and natalis, meaning “birth”). Perinatal experiences are based around the memories of birth labor and delivery, combined with dramatic encounters with dying and impermanence in human life. As Grof's patients

Or as Dr. Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne of Princeton’s Engineering Anomalies Research Lab put it: “It is our belief that here we are teetering on the threshold of another new era of science…that will acknowledge and utilize sublime capabilities of the proactive human mind to extract far deeper aspects of physical experience.”

potencial de abuso e sem uso medicinal reconhecido. Lá estava James Fadiman, psicólogo formado em Stanford que fez pesquisas pioneiras com compostos psicodélicos e resolução de problemas na Fundação Internacional de Estudos Avançados de Menlo Park até a FDA interromper o trabalho do grupo em 1966. (No início dos anos 1960, havia muitas pesquisas