Tagged with Psychology

[The Healing Journey] • Fire was the first brainwave stimulation device. This is one reason we can spend hours staring into a fire in such a calm, evocative and viscerally contemplative way. Add a version of storytelling . . . then add a version of music . . . and you have Synaesthetic Surround, current science’s take on fireside dreamtime.   (more)

Reports have appeared of people who see Avatar and fall into depression at their inability to access a world as beautiful and spiritual as Pandora, the mythical planet depicted in the film. But before you join a PADS support group, consider the lessons of LSD. (more)

The Akashic Records are a dimension of consciousness that contains a vibrational record of every soul and its journey. From them, we can derive understanding and direction. (more)

When I realized my email account was lost, I went through Elizabeth Kubler Ross's well-known Five Stages of Grief. It couldn't possibly, really, all be gone, could it? Nah. Yes, it could, and it was. (more)

The eight-circuit grid can be used to discover the great variety of human sexual response. We can imagine how sexuality might act as a vehicle for higher consciousness and unfathomable realities beyond our wildest fantasies in and out of our bodies.   (more)

In March and April, the air is heady with religious themes.  The resurrection is re-enacted in the budding trees and sprouting flowers miraculously coming to life where once lay a blanket of snow.  We get multiple Jesuses in the ER this time of year. (more)

Context is everything, and it literally determines which "me" shows up. I have seen this again and again in various roles over the years. But context can also work against us. (more)

By the time we retire at sixty-five many of us cannot even begin to access our real self. With our God-seeds planted in the wrong fields, we have become too tired or ill to really touch the moment. If we don’t shape up, we may be shipped out.  (more)

When one enters a major spiritual transition, it can be so painfully unnerving that it not only devastates one's self esteem, it also undermines our ability to fulfill even our most basic survival needs. This process is designed to cultivate the inner strength needed to face your deepest fears and learn how generous the universe really is. (more)

Far from a thing of the past or an ignorant superstition, demonic possession and evil spells, in our technologically developed society, are an increasing danger. C. G. Jung has given us modern terms for these very real states, uriging us to make exorcizing ourselves "the most vital task of civilization." (more)

Life is a dream you won't remember upon awakening, and myth is that dream retold. We transmit our living mythologies to each other through our art, but equally so through our impact upon one another in our day-to-day lives. (more)

Although I don't fully understand the complexities of the financial crisis, I am learning a lot about money. Each day between the hours of 10am and noon I am approached by 100 adult schizophrenics asking me for cash. I have to say yes or no, and how much.  (more)

Timothy Leary indirectly turned millions of people on to LSD, but his central contribution was his Eight-Circuit Brain model for Intelligence Increase, a user-friendly grid designed for anyone exploring higher consciousness as a means not merely to get high, but for designing and creating new contexts for their lives. (more)

As part of a weeklong series of events, the second annual World Science Festival in New York brought in a Nobel Laureate to moderate a panel that included a neuroscientist, a philosopher, and a psychologist to take on one of the most vexing questions of all time -- do humans have free will? (more)

Mike Kawitzky's Cognition Factor offers up a kaleidoscopic field of cyberpunk 3-D imagery while asking the most pressing questions we face today. See the RS screening at the Wild Project this Sunday in NYC. [Trailer] (more)

In the early stage of my psychedelic research, I suggested that the potential significance of LSD and other psychedelics for psychiatry and psychology was comparable to the value the microscope has for biology and medicine or the telescope has for astronomy. My later experience with psychedelics only confirmed this initial impression. (more)

At the gateway to the Major Arcana stands the Magician. He is the bright, enduring presence on this journey of awakening that we, by virtue of our birth, have chosen to undertake. The Magician pulls the chain on the cosmic lamp switch, beaming the light of pure awareness onto life. (more)

Whether we're craving new creative ideas or insight into ourselves, our night-time excursions to the mercurial land of multiple meanings, shifting landscapes and beguiling mysteries seem to dangle endless fresh possibilities before us. What if we were able to discover techniques that allowed us to easily reach out and grab these possibilities? (more)