Psychonautics
Perinatal, Transpersonal and Archetypal Psyche
Psychonautics is the exploration of territories of psychological and spiritual experience, states linked to birth, death, and rebirth. Experiences that extend beyond the ordinary ego, and encounters with mythic images, figures and patterns that appear to possess an archetypal symbolic reality.
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Psychology of the Future : Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
Holotropic Experiences and Their Healing and Heuristic Potential. The source of observations explored in this article has been long-term systematic study of what academic psychiatry calls ‘altered’ or ‘non-ordinary states of consciousness.’…
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A Cosmological Hypothesis
The following pages by Dr. A. Kafkalides have been taken from his book (in Greek) Beyond the Boundaries of the Womb which was left unfinished in 1987 due to his death. We thank John Alevizos , Nicholas Biniaris and Jody Morgan for the translation of the pages into English.
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Goddess of the Jewelled Web – The Transmission of the Transpersonal in Visionary Art
Art striving for an existential veracity or 'truth' will be put upon a difficult and confusing road, forking and branching pathways; between on one hand positivist and nominalist systems tending toward rationality (as in 'ratio', to measure), and on the other extreme something akin to pure aesthetics, decor, and the enjoyment of a sensoric object. What we wish to seek here is a deeper meaning for the Arts which put Sacred Art upon a respectable and integral foundation.
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Introduction to Transpersonal Perinatal Psychology
The symbolism of regression to the womb can be found in shamanism, myths of great heroes, fairy tales, and initiation rites. Recurring patterns of symbolic regression and rebirth appears to be a fundamental way in which pre- and perinatal experience influences postnatal consciousness.
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Some general properties of self-regulating open hierarchic order (SOHO)
The regenerative potential of organisms and societies manifests itself in fluctuations from the highest level of integration down to earlier, more primitive levels, and up again to a new, modified pattern. Processes of this type seem to play a major part in biological and mental evolution, and are symbolized in the universal death-and-rebirth motive in mythology.
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Wise Mind – A Case for the Integration of Subjective Experience with Objective Reality in the Age of Fragmentation
By: Flore Singer Aaslid (flore.aaslid@svt.ntnu.no) Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Abstract The manner in which reality is perceived and conceptualized has profound implications for many levels of human existence. From…
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Contributors
Stan Grof
Stanislav Grof (born July 1, 1931), also known as Stan Grof, is a Czech-born psychiatrist who has been living in the United…
WriterAthanasios Kafkalides
Dr. Athanassios Kafkalides was a Greek neuropsychiatrist. He was born in 1919 and he died in 1989 while in Athens. He graduated…
WriterDaniel Mirante
Daniel Mirante is a painter, historian, scholar, teacher and writer.
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