Jul 24, 2009
In this episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays the second
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 perinatal matrices and sexual
arousal, sadomasochistic themes in the perinatal matrices,
biological forces and hindrances in the birth process, damage to
the fetus during birth, Freud's understanding of the birth
experience as a prototype of fear and anxiety, the dispute between
Freud and Rank over perinatal experience, Rank's idea of 'paradise
to poverty', relation of anxiety to narrowness, the importance of
working with the mother during pregnancy, traning medical
professionals to deal with birth, a comparison of Grof's work to
scientology, differences between psychoanalytic schools,
psychological defenses during therapy sessions, the start of
anatomical independance of the child, the experiential
phenomenology of the perinatal matrices, mythological motifs in the
death/rebirth experience, toxic chemical experiences in the bad
womb, visions of octopuses and snakes, the experience of psychotic
patients, the dark night of the soul, hell and demonic torture,
depression as a stage of mental development, the philosophy of
Sartre and perinatal experience, Sartre's bad trip on mescaline,
the experience of hellish hopelessness and permanent psychosis,
enacting the birth trauma in sadomasochistic scenes, themes of
blasphemy, encounters with urine and faeces during birth and ego
death and rebirth. Afterwards, Max plays a recording of a Salvia
Divinorum trip from smoking frog, and talks about precuations when
using Salvia. Email maxfreakout@dopefiend.co.uk and hang out with
the friendly psychonauts at www.thegrowreport.com.
Playlist: Sangeet Mishra, Taro Terahara and Shen Flindell - Raga Charukeshi Alap
Playlist: Sangeet Mishra, Taro Terahara and Shen Flindell - Raga Charukeshi Alap