Psychonautica074

Jul 10, 2009

In this episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays the first part of a day-long seminar by Stanislav Grof, from the world psychedelic forum, entitled 'psychospiritual death and rebirth, a visionary journey'. Grof talks about the meaning of the categories 'non-ordinary' and 'holotropic' states of conscious, Hindu philosophy and the Atman/Brahman union, the healing/transformative/evolutionary potential of holotropic states, the inadequacy of the behaviourist and psychoanalytic paradigms to explain holotropic states, the inadequacy of psychiatric classification of holotropic states as 'psychotic', spiritual crises, a comprehensive cartography of the psyche, the relevance of spirituality to holotropic states, the ontological reality of holotropic states, the original mystical message of christianity, the relation of astrology to altered states, the systematic correlation of historical events to planetary transits, the birth experience and psychopathology, the reception of psychedelics in psychiatry, the psychedelic death/rebirth experience, comparison of psychedelic drugs to the telescope, the connection of psychedelics to shamanism and mystery religion, non-rationality irrationality and trans-rationality, the development of the infant psyche, perinatal experience and the 4 basic perinatal matrices, dissolution of boundaries, transcendence of time and personal identity, the numinous aspect of the death/rebirth experience, mythic metaphor and the death/rebirth experience, ego death and ego dissolution, good-womb and bad-womb experiences. Email [e-mail] and hang out with the friendly psychonauts at www.thegrowreport.com.

Playlist: J-Dilla - Lightworks