Mind Space & Time Stream: Understanding & Navigating Your States of Consciousness

by Ralph Metzner

In MINDSPACE AND TIMESTREAM book the author relates his distillation of almost five decades of research, psychotherapy, shamanic and yogic practices, as well as teaching experience, on the role of changing states of consciousness in psychological health and spiritual growth. Each state of consciousness that we experience, ranging from the familiar states of waking, sleeping, dreaming and meditating, to the expansive spiritual states of psychedelic explorers, mystics and mediums, has its own distinctly different mind-space and time-stream. We need to learn how to use the expansive, positive states for spiritual growth and creative expression and navigate out of the contractive, unhealthy states of fear and rage, addictions and compulsions, into healthier, life-affirming states. This book is the fourth in a new series on The Ecology of Consciousness. Already published are Vol. 1, The Expansion of Consciousness; Vol. 2, The Roots of War and Domination; and Vol. 3, Alchemical Divination, all available from Regent Press.Ralph Metzner, Ph.D. is a recognized pioneer in studies of consciousness and its transformations. He is a psychotherapist and Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he was also the Academic Dean for ten years in the 1980s. He collaborated with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert in the studies of psychedelic drugs at Harvard in the 1960s, and co-authored The Psychedelic Experience. His books include Maps of Consciousness, The Well of Remembrance, The Unfolding Self and Green Psychology.

Genres: Self Help

160 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2010

About the author

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 modifications.

He is the author of The Well of Remembrance, The Unfolding Self, Green Psychology, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (with Ram Dass); editor of two collections of essays on ayahuasca and on psilocybe mushrooms; and author of a new series of seven books on The Ecology of Consciousness.

Reviews

[Nastja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Väga segane emotsioon. Ühest küljest olid mõned lõigud ja käsitletavad teemad väga huvitavad, põnevate näidetega illustreeritud. Erinevate teadvusseisundite kirjeldused avardasid minu teadmisi ja panid mõtlema, kuid teisest küljest esines mitmeidki teemasid ja kohti, mis mind eriti ei kõnetanud. Näiteks lasin silmad üle joosta peatükkidest, kus tuli juttu unest ja ärkvelolekust - unefaasid ja ajulained on mulle juba tuttav teema ega paku eriti huvi ka, kui aus olla. Nii et, nagu oli hea, aga nagu kohati mitte nii mulle. Aga ei kahetse, et kätte võtsin.