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...otion to ecstatic trance all combined to create an entirely different psychology, a psychology in which the ego barely existed. The- it’s almost as th...

...e models that shamanic use of vision plants provide for transpersonal psychology, particular attention given to the role such plants play in personal ...

... sort of mutated. I read Jung is what happened. I read, I first read 'psychology and Alchemy', and then that lead me on to, um, the other one which is...

...erest in hermeticism and alchemy since I was about 14 and read Jung’s psychology and Alchemy, and it opened for me the fact of the existence of this v...

...ry young i was about 15 when a very precotious friend of mine brought psychology and alchemy in the karuahbane translation i think it had just been br...

... are looking at a much different sort of problem. The problem is that psychology is the science whose perfection we are most in need of, because our w...

...n the 20th century has grown generally more holistic. This comes from psychology at one end and quantum physics at the other. And of course, quantum p...

...al highway, to be amazed at people, and about the direction that mass psychology seems to be taking. And since I assume everybody here is a shaper of ...

...em, and re-edit them. And I, you know, to this point we’ve been doing psychology sort of like a blind man polishing a Cadillac in total darkness. You ...

...gine, the specially constructed environments that occur in behavioral psychology labs that trick you into thinking that the person in the foreground i...

... sense not of physics and chemistry but of biology, anthropology, and psychology. How to account for the uniqueness of our species and then the unique...

...n the realm of sexuality and I guess what you would call experimental psychology. These are areas where we get very nervous and want to follow rote, f...

...I got about a $50,000 education and three degrees, college degrees in psychology, but I've never learned anything like I've learned from listening to ...

...hemical principals in them have had an enormous impact on shaping the psychology of various cultures, both preliterate and literate, throughout the wo...

...cifically and most importantly printing, had really done a job on our psychology and the whole theory of social relations and everything else. He felt...

...red years and because it abandoned any contact with a realistic human psychology, the best intended people ended up creating nightmare societies. If y...

... but like, schizoid about it, and never owned up to the fact that the psychology of North Carolina is more what western Colorado is about than the psy...

...My mind is made up. Don’t confuse me with facts.’ [laughs] Luc: Would psychology be further ahead, would you have learned more about the way the human...

...That’s right. Like bisexuality, which is a characteristic of feminine psychology. In this society, I think is directed related to the rise of modern a...

...ler ape. I mean, we are an object-fetish society – I mean, our entire psychology is characterized by a profound discontent. That’s what we’re about. I...

...s though what the psychedelics are attempting to do for sociology and psychology is what was achieved by quantum physics from matter in the 1920s and ...

...ismegistus, a whole bunch of ancient literature. To show you what the psychology of the Renaissance was, here they had Plato, which they hadn’t been a...

...oat. The main event, folks, doesn’t even have anything to do with the psychology of human beings. The main event is another dimension. A dimension so ...

... people were born, lived and went into the ground with this kind of a psychology. And, we are all imprisoned by our cultural expectations to such a de...

...his century when the effort was made to extend the metaphor into, uh, psychology, the true inadequacy of it became clearly seen, so that, the effort t...

...JM: And, I know in the literature today, especially in trans-personal psychology, there are many psychotherapists who use the I Ching as a regular par...

...h publisher. Then sort of moving out of the realm of pharmacology and psychology and into the specifically anthropological stuff, this is one with a n...

...hese gods: that they were, in fact, somehow rooted in, uh, in human...psychology, rather than in theogony, in some sense. And, they became the world's...

...phase which recognizes that the saucer is somehow mixed up with human psychology, that it is no mere light scene in the sky, that when you go back and...

...lics do, I think, is dissolve this three-dimensional threat detection psychology and system, and it’s as though the mind discovers that it has a secon...

... modernity was mass media. You know, uh, mass media shaped that whole psychology and it is now archaic – it’s not archaic it’s obsolete. Uh, it-it’s w...

...f you share my sensitivity read Carl Jung’s little book called On the psychology of the Transference and then you will understand. In fact, that shoul...

...st, there may have been levels of understanding. It may be, see, that psychology – though it’s a mystery to us – it may be that it’s an easier nut to ...

...l to me. TM: Well I was a heavy reader and uh I was interested in the psychology of Carl Jung, the Swiss depth psychologist. RH: As a 13 year old? TM:...

...ed out of the psychedelics is not simply deeper insight into your own psychology or recovery of childhood memories or insight into other peoples dilem...

...time, through integrative sciences, like ecology, animal behavior and psychology, we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reductionist cen...

...biology and botany. in biogeography, in ethnography and ethnology, in psychology and neurophysiology, in the study of symbols, uh uh, the number of di...

...graphic. It is not incongruous, therefore, to say as GS Brett does in psychology Ancient and Modern (pp. 36-7) “The idea that knowledge is essentially...

...phic. It is not incongruous, therefore, to say as G.S. Brett does in 'psychology, Ancient and Modern.' And Here's the quote: The idea that knowledge i...

...hedelic contradiction and chaos and the news hasn’t reach biology and psychology. They’re still operating under different paradigms. What is keeping s...

...ep books on these subjects on the anthropology, the pharmacology, the psychology, the quantum mechanics of drug activity, inform yourself. And then it...

...ldn't survive the encounter. And therefore its just said, “Well, it’s psychology, it’s marginal, it’s fleeting, it’s non irreproducible, and so forth ...

...er define our worth through attachment to things. We have to create a psychology that reinforces inner worth. And you know, I hate to tell you but str...

...war ends, and novelty is left behind [9:39:30]. And remember that the psychology of the post-war mind was everybody wanted things to get back to norma...

...e, it is a metaphor for the transformation of the planet and of human psychology that must take place if we are to provide a sane future for our child...

...you know, if you want to understand this, read Jung’s book called The psychology of the Transference. It’s the same in all cultures: you must be able ...

...a and we should disabuse ourselves of it immediately. Social science, psychology, intellectual history, um, you know, even linguistics I would say and...

... visual dimension. So that, it -- to me, and again this may be my own psychology, what is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, th...

...escence was actually what it was. And then years later when I studied psychology and the brain, I read Sherrington’s definition of consciousness as an...

...ween these two expressions? TM: The New Age is essentially humanistic psychology, eighties style,with the addition of neo-shamanism, channeling, cryst...

...ea that we're working in at the fringe of science, at the frontier of psychology is too chaotic and disorganized to be called a science at this point....

... our problems, uh, on a personal level until the advent of, uh, well, psychology, in the modern sense. People never examined the center. They thought ...

...ls now. But the chemistry, the pharmacology, the neurophysiology, the psychology, these are just wide open areas. I'll take the opportunity to thank y...

...ysical universe versus the angel- and demon-haunted worlds that depth psychology is reporting is also a dichotomy. The psychedelic experience acts to ...

...d I would like to find out why. I think it's a very odd fact of human psychology, and I don't buy any of the current theories ranging from that nothin...

... like to find out why. I think it's a very odd, uh, uh, fact of human psychology, and I don't buy any of the current theories ranging from that nothin...

... a little outrageous and I settled on 'Hallucinogens Before and After psychology'. So before I dig into that subject, I’ll say a bit about how I come ...

...hysical universe, versus the angel and demon haunted world that depth psychology is reporting on is again set up as a dichotomy. Uh, all that is neede...