"SYNCHRONICITOUS"?????????!!!!!!!??????

[David Morris]

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
>
> Jung is an over-rated quack.  His ideas are interesting, and extremely useful
in the world of theater, but as science, which psychoanalysis and psychology
aims to to be, he is a world-class embarrassment.

http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofpref.htm


    Experiences occurring in psychedelic and holotropic sessions cannot be
described in terms of the narrow and superficial conceptual model used in
academic psychiatry and psychology, which is limited to biology, postnatal
biography, and the Freudian individual unconscious. Deep experiential work
requires a vastly extended cartography of the psyche that includes important
domains uncharted by traditional science. My own version of such a model
described in the present volume includes two additional levels of the psyche,
for which I use the terms perinatal and transpersonal. 

    The phenomena originating on the perinatal and transpersonal levels of the
psyche include sequences of psychological death and rebirth, encounters with
archetypal beings, visits to mythological realms of various cultures, past
incarnation memories, extrasensory perception, episodes of out-of-body states,
experiences of cosmic consciousness research. These have to be considered to be
natural and normal manifestations of the deeper dynamics of the human psyche. 

    They have been repeatedly described in the context of various shamanic
procedures, rites of passage, aboriginal healing ceremonies, and mysteries of
death and rebirth, as well as Eastern spiritual philosophies and mystical
traditions of all ages. For this reason, any serious effort to understand
spirituality and religion requires recognition of the perinatal and
transpersonal dimensions of the psyche Attempts to interpret any of these
phenomena in the context of the narrow and superficial model of the psyche
currently used by Newtonian-Cartesian science necessarily leads to serious
distortions and to pathologization of the entire spiritual history of humanity. 

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