“[The Doors] used its title as inspiration in naming themselves),*The Doors of Perception*, as a way of understanding how psychedelics can open one up to consciousness & awareness quite beyond what one could possibly know thru normal channels." wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ D7V1 2/95
““The doors of perception” as a title of Aldous Huxley’s work came from a poem by William Blake. The line goes, “If the doors of perception were cleansed, the world would appear as it is, infinite.”” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #consciousness D7V1 2/96
“Still, Huxley’s essay, *The Doors of Perception*, along with its companion essay, *Heaven & Hell* (1956) was an icon of counterculture mythology in the 1960s, & it was Huxley’s work which inspired the musicians, The Doors.” THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology D7V1 2/97
“According to Huxley, expansion of mind beyond the normal can be a result of consciousness-altering methods, psychedelic drugs being one of them..." THREAD wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb D7V1 2/98
“…due to the fact that the “reducing valve,” the brain, is inhibited from performing its function of blocking out the majority of an otherwise overwhelming Reality.” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal D7V1 2/99
“I continued along those lines, elaborating & speculating on the idea, in my articles, titled, “The Doors of Perception: Each of Us Is Potentially Mind at Large… When Perception Is Cleansed, All Kinds of Nonordinary Things Happen”…” THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… D7V1 2/100
“…& “Occupy Science...A Call for a Scientific Awakening: In Tossing Away Our Species Blinders, We Approach a Truth Far Beyond Science.” READ &/or dwnl entire BOOK free AT SITE... wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #anthro #primal #perinatal D7V1 2/101
“A pioneer in this prenatal & perinatal area is Stanislav Grof. His many works, providing a framework for conceptualizing pre & perinatal & transpersonal experiences,are a profound & useful starting point for an investigation into this area.” drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… D7V1 2/102
“In [Grof’s] use of LSD beginning in 1956 for psychotherapy, called *psycholytic therapy*, Grof discovered four levels of experience of the unconscious: the *sensory*, the *biographical*, the *perinatal*, & the *transpersonal*.” THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psyche D7V1 2/103
“[Grof] noted a tendency for growth & healing to occur in a progressive way through these levels. “The *sensory band* is the level of expanded sensory awareness & is usually initially encountered by participants.” THREAD wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology #prenatal D7V1 2/104
“The *biographical band* is the realm of the personal unconscious wherein unintegrated & traumatic memories & material from childhood & one’s personal history are retrieved, often relived,& integrated.” READ/DWL BOOK drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #psychotherapy D7V1 2/105
“The *perinatal* level of experience usually follows after dealing with the biographical material & involves the remembering, re-experiencing, & integrating of material that is related to the time prior to & surrounding birth.” THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psyche D7V1 2/106