feeding the psychedelic database

[David Morris]

I've listened to this.  It is a very good overview, narrated by the author.

http://www.amazon.com/Transpersonal-Vision-Stanislav-Grof/dp/1591795028#

In 1954, physician and research scientist Stanislav Grof began his
investigations into non-ordinary states of consciousness. On The
Transpersonal Vision, this pioneering cartographer of the human psyche
tells the story of his quest for a new architecture of the self. You will
hear about Dr. Grof's forays into the worlds of the shaman and mystic; what
past-life experiences can teach us about our life purpose; how non-ordinary
states reveal the intrinsic structure of the universe itself; and much
more. Here is Stanislav Grof's own front-line account of his search beyond
the domain of our personal biographies and into the territory of mystical
states, archetypal forces, and even the intrinsic structure of the universe
itself

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I'll be looking into Grof's work, as well.
>
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
> Sent from Beyond the Zero
>
> On Jan 28, 2015, at 8:26 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> His first, Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations From LSD
> Research, was the one I read back in '83. His work since has been largely
> tied in with Transpersonal psych. Interesting stuff, I'm sure, but I
> haven't kept up with it.
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "Master, does a dog have Buddah nature?"
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 28, 2015, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I know a little about this work and am getting  Myron Stolaroff's book
>>> about Leo Zeff's research but would like to read Graf.Is there a book you
>>> would most recommend?
>>> On Jan 27, 2015, at 11:33 PM, David Morris wrote:
>>>
>>> > Pardon my grammar.
>>> >
>>> > On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > If you are familiar with the very rigorously and serious work of
>>> Stanislov Graf in his Transpersonal Psychology, you will know how valuable
>>> the scientific study of powerful psychedelic drugs are, and should be
>>> accessible.
>>> >
>>> > His research is very real, but disparaged by the "hard" science crowd.
>>> And it is too much for the religious mainstream.
>>> >
>>> > David Morris
>>> >
>>> > On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>> > I really hope this does not seem like advocacy, but we live in a
>>> generation that was seriously changed by these substances in many
>>> intriguing and positive ways and yet there is this large scale denial of
>>> any value. The writing here is silly but I came across it today.
>>> > . Kary Mullis
>>> >
>>> > You may not have heard of Kary Mullis unless you've worked in a
>>> biomedical lab at any point since the 1980s. Mullis revolutionized the
>>> field by refining the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique that can
>>> make millions of identical copies of a single strand of DNA. This won him a
>>> Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993, and he credits LSD. He told California
>>> Monthly in September 1994 that, he "took plenty of acid" in his youth and
>>> called his experimentation "mind-opening." In a later BBC interview, he
>>> made the startling claim that his acid binges in the 1960s and '70s
>>> contributed more to his accomplishments than anything he'd learned in
>>> school: "What if I had not taken LSD ever; would I have still invented PCR?
>>> I don’t know. I doubt it. I seriously doubt it."
>>> >
>>> > Francis Crick
>>> >
>>> > The co-discoverer of the DNA structure (along with Watson and
>>> Franklin), for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1962,
>>> told numerous friends and colleagues he was experimenting with LSD while
>>> working to unravel the molecular structure of our genetic information.
>>> Crick told his close friend Dick Kemp that he had actually "perceived the
>>> double-helix shape while on LSD" and that LSD use was common among
>>> Cambridge academics of the time. Many of them used it in small amounts as a
>>> "thinking tool," according to Kemp.
>>> >
>>> > Others reporting positive experience: Steve Jobs, Cary Grant, Jack
>>> Nickolson, Susan Sarandon,
>>> >
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> I believe making such substances illegal even for research was
>>> damaging to  science, medicine, psychology, law enforcement, and possibly
>>> even human evolution.  As far as I can see this has nothing to do with
>>> limiting  self destructive addiction but an attempt to limit the range of
>>> experience, exploration, and healing practices available to the human
>>> family. These are very different from addictive drugs. For many people once
>>> is enough whether it is a time of positive transformation of just freaky
>>> oddness or terror. But there is a kid of natural limit to using them
>>> lightly.  It also really creeps me out that all countries have criminalized
>>> what is clearly a  practice dating from the earliest human records.  -
>>> > >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> --
>>> > >>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >
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