“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
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“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
“The transpersonal band, the level of spiritual experience, is usually reached only after dealing with the other three levels.” READ BOOK… wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #psychedelic #archetype #womb #spirituality D7V1 2/107
“*Four Modes of Experiencing—the Basic Perinatal Matrices* “Grof also delineated four matrices of experience, four general experiential constructs, which he called *basic perinatal matrices* (BPMs).” READ/DWL BOOK drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychedelic #consciousness D7V1 2/108
“[Stanislav Grof] discovered that experiences at all levels of the unconscious often group themselves in four general ways that are roughly related to four stages of birth. THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #primal #perinatal D7V1 2/109