Ralph Metzner (Author of Sacred Vine of Spirits)

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Ralph Metzner

Born

in Germany

May 18, 1936

Died

March 14, 2019

Genre

Psychology

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Ralph Metzner Ph.D. was an American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later named Ram Dass). Dr. Metzner was a psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice-president. He received his undergraduate degree at Oxford University and his doctorate in clinical psychology at Harvard University, where he was also the recipient of an NIMH Post-doctoral Fellowship in psychopharmacology at the Harvard Medical School. He had a life-long interest in the many different realms of consciousness and its m ...more

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	Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca 4.07 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonan谩catl: A Sourcebook on the Psilocybin Mushroom 4.08 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience 4.35 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Toad and the Jaguar by Ralph Metzner, Stanislav Grof (Foreword), Charles S. Grob (Foreword) 4.07 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Well of Remembrance: Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern Europe 4.04 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth 3.93 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Allies for Awakening: Guidelines for Productive and Safe Experiences with Entheogens 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maps of Consciousness: I Ching, Tantra, Tarot, Alchemy, Astrology, Actualism 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1972 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecology of Consciousness: The Alchemy of Personal, Collective, and Planetary Transformation 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“There鈥檚 a swirling, weaving gridwork of light-patterns everywhere and all around. I can hear someone making choking and retching noises. RD was experiencing the vomit of the world鈥檚 suffering, but was not suffering himself, as he later told us. At first I can鈥檛 do anything 鈥� there is no 鈥淚鈥� and nobody else. Then I notice that I鈥檓 being moved towards the sound, to reach out with my hand, to touch, to help, to give comfort. 鈥淚鈥� didn鈥檛 decide to do this, it just happened, sort of like an amoeba oozing over toward the source of apparent distress signals. My voice appeared to be making soothing sounds while my hands appeared to be making touching, stroking gestures. Awareness then arose of the other individual, this particular man, RD. Only after that awareness, came the realization that 鈥淚鈥� was doing this gesture, this movement (RM).”
― Ralph Metzner, The Toad and the Jaguar

tags: 5-meo-dmt, altered-consciousness, ego-death, psychedelic-experience, psychedelics

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“Stanislav Grof, in his account, related receiving a whole series of death-and-rebirth visions of his past incarnations and witnessing the struggles of these past dyings with calm, even ecstatic detachment. Like Grof, I also found myself rapidly reviewing a series of past lives especially the deaths of these lives:

Images of decapitation, dismemberment, disembowelment flashed by, in rapid succession, including an image of being run through the chest with a sword 鈥� yet there was no fear or horror associated with these images. The following thoughts occurred: 鈥淒eath comes to all, now it鈥檚 your turn. This is it, the termination. Resistance is impossible and pointless besides. It鈥檚 too late, the annihilation has already happened.鈥� As I gradually came back into my body, after ten minutes in real time, I felt bathed in pure joy and completely at peace with myself, the world and my death (RM).”
― Ralph Metzner, The Toad and the Jaguar

tags: 5-meo-dmt, altered-consciousness, death, ecstasy, ego-death, psychedelic-experience, psychedelics

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“Something like a mask or blind over the right side of my face appears to be coming loose. I can feel the cheek muscles rippling under the skin, and facial nerves twitching, a sense of energy currents inside my body being aligned and balanced.

When I let go within, feelings of great peacefulness, a soft breathing in the heart, gently approaching knots of contraction or pain. Out of a hard nugget of pain somewhere, a serenely exploding flare of light energy spreads throughout the body. The softly ascending light flare consists of sparkling jewels and precious stones, as if the pain had been a locked-up treasure chest that was suddenly unlocked.

I am shown that if I can make certain sounds, the vibrations can actually disintegrate crystallized nuggets of pain or tension. Continued perception of ascending and descending glissandos, as if on a harp, but soundless, kinaesthetic, synaesthetic, soothing, healing (RM).”
― Ralph Metzner, The Toad and the Jaguar

tags: 5-meo-dmt, altered-consciousness, ego-death, healing, psychedelic-experience, psychedelics

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