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Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments:
An Entheogen Chrestomathy
Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D. and Paula Jo Hruby, Ed.D.
Author Index | Title Index
Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research.
Grof, Stanislav.
New York: Viking.(1975)
New York: E. P. Dutton. (1976)
| ISBN: | 670-59051-7 First edition [1975] |
| 0-525-47438-2 Paperback [1976] |
Description: xxx + 257 pages.
Contents: Preface, acknowledgments,
6 chapters, epilogue, bibliography, index.
Note: A key book: this
is the first book-length presentation of Grof's cartography of
the human mind.
Excerpt(s): I know of
no work that so well incorporates in one consistent whole the
findings of Freud, Jung and Rank, adding fresh
insights, which the methods of those psychotherapists could never
have achieved. I do not doubt that many others working in this
field would find Dr. Grof's discoveries a basis for a whole new
strategy of research. ( Joseph Campbell,
cover)
The individual comes to realize, through these [perinatal]
experiences, that no matter what he does in his life, he cannot
escape the inevitable; he will have to leave this world bereft
of everything that he has accumulated and achieved and to which
he has been emotionally attached. The similarity between birth
and death-the startling realization that the beginning of life
is the same as its end-is the major philosophical issue that accompanies
the perinatal experiences. The other important consequence of
the shocking emotional and physical encounter with the phenomenon
of death is the opening up of areas of spiritual and
religious experiences that appear to be an intrinsic part of the
human personality and are independent of the individual's cultural
and religious background and programming. In my experience, everyone
who has reached these levels develops convincing insights into
the utmost relevance of the spiritual and religious dimensions
in the universal scheme of things. Even hard-core materialists,
positively oriented scientists, skeptics and cynics, and uncompromising
Marxist
philosophers suddenly became interested in a spiritual search
after they confronted these levels in themselves. (pages 95-96)
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