Causal oneness

Very briefly, in the book, I describe the levels of consciousness I went through in this process: a series of death and rebirth experiences, starting with the personal level of mind, going through ego death, then reaching the collective level of mind, engaging deep structures within the collective psyche. Third, the archetypal dimension of...

That's a large topic. The challenge is doing justice to the layers of consciousness I traversed over this 20-year journey. Many books are based on fewer sessions, creating expectations that shrink the metaphysical window. But over many sessions, there are stages of initiation, from personal to collective, to archetypal and causal levels. Among the...

I want to inject a cautionary note. I'm happy we're spending time writing books on integration because breaking out with these chemicals can transcend our time space suit easily. But to do it in a valuable way, bringing back something we can keep is the harder part. The first step of integration is to...

Let's hold the second part about psychedelics helping us, and I'll address the first. It was one of the biggest surprises of my work—letting go of the framing as a personal journey of transformation to a larger dance with the species mind, being catapulted to deeper causal levels of reality. This might sound outrageous...

Okay, so I just say 73 high-dose sessions. And I did this in a very rigorous fashion, following Stan's protocol. In my case, I used the same protocol, same set and setting, same substance, same dose level, same sitter, same recording process, and same location. I tried to standardize all the variables as much...

Let's hold the second part of that question about how psychedelics might help us on a better path forward, and let me address the first part. This was one of the biggest surprises of my work. First, I had to let go of framing my work as personal journey, personal transformation, personal healing, personal...

Because that was the experience. One encounters light, often in deep spiritual experiences, near-death experiences, and psychedelic experiences. When you go through a death-rebirth process, often you have the sensation of being flooded with light, encountering light. It's almost universal in spiritual traditions. I had experienced light in many forms and many times in...

Because that was the experience. One encounters light often in deep spiritual experiences, near-death experiences, or psychedelic experiences. When you go through a Death-Rebirth process, you often have the sensation of being flooded with light, and it’s almost universal in spiritual traditions. I had encountered light many times in my practice, but when I...

But if we continue this process, if we press deeper and deeper into spiritual reality, we go through more deaths, more cycles of death and rebirth at the psychic, subtle, and causal levels of consciousness. To use terms that Stan [ed. note: Stanislav Grof] uses. Now, I have no vested interest in a particular...

My sense of reality changed repeatedly at different levels. When processing all the experiences and trying to organize them to share with others, I differentiated five levels: personal mind, collective mind, archetypal mind, causal oneness, and diamond luminosity. The jump from personal consciousness into collective reality was significant—seeing how reality is organized at a...

There are thresholds and gateways where one must go through another death to enter a deeper level of existence. It’s not a repetition of ego death but a different kind of death reflecting different levels of reality. Stan differentiates psychic levels, subtle levels, and causal levels of Transpersonal experience. I use that language in...

Well, we're going to start with the first module. There's seven modules. The first module is going to be on methodology. I'm going to lay out the method, answer people's questions, address their misgivings about psychedelics, explain what psychedelics do and don't do, and specifically address the particular protocol I used because it was...

If we use the vocabulary that Stan uses, as we enter psychic, subtle and causal levels of consciousness. Now, I don't have any vested interest in any particular metaphysical ladder or description of these deeper states of consciousness. In my experience, the universe is infinitely deep. One can enter hundreds of levels of consciousness....

After that, I was spun into archetypal reality and vast territories in the collective unconscious. I learned how our species lives as a single integrated entity, with each of us being a fractal embodiment of that being. Eventually, this led me into causal level reality, where the universe pulsed as a single entity, dissolving...

A lot of work at the medical level, at the therapeutic level, really focuses on ego dissolution, transcending the limitations of your physical body, entering into a deeper communion, into mystical experiences. What I found was when you—and I did this work—it wasn't just one cycle of death-rebirth. Now, in this image, the drop...

Another death-rebirth process led to causal oneness, experiencing the universe as a singularity, breathing as one, living within it, like experiencing a forest's collective life. After a year, another death and rebirth took me to a clearer, hyper-clear domain of light, the diamond luminosity, an absolute ecstatic reality I reached only four times in...

When you work in a sustained fashion with such powerful psychedelics, you go through not one death and rebirth, but a series of deaths and rebirths. In this image, the drop below the line represents our time-space identity, our egoic identity. The first turning of the circle represents the process of ego death—the first...

Well, the collective unconscious is a stratum of consciousness that lies below the personal unconscious. So in Jung's model, we first encounter, when we go below our conscious mind, our personal unconscious. But if you can go deeper than your personal unconscious, you enter into a stream of awareness, which seems to be a...

I adopted the vocabulary Stan Grof developed: psychic levels, subtle levels, and causal levels. Consciousness differentiates psychic low and high, subtle low and high, causal low and high. Those are approximations, as the universe has many hundreds of levels. I didn't have a vested interest in a particular model, but looking back at the...

I adopted the vocabulary from Stan Grof's work: psychic, subtle, and causal levels of consciousness. The universe is incredibly deep, and these are approximations. My experiences included ego death at the personal mind level, collective mind at the subtle level, archetypal mind at the high subtle, and causal mind, leading to diamond luminosity.

As I looked back, these circles oversimplify, of course. These represent a number of sessions, and the circles within circles mark a deepening of causal level reality. When I looked over all my psychedelic work, I identified five fundamental death-rebirth processes or levels of consciousness. These are: the death of self, meaning the death...

Let me back up a little bit to give context, and then you bring me back. If I don't get back to it, bring me back to this—the birth of the future human. I found that when I was working with these very high levels of LSD—and again, this is a protocol that I...

Yes, to all of those things. I'm a professor who prefers organized discussion, starting at the beginning and moving phase by phase. Jumping to conclusions might seem ungrounded, psychedelic. That's not my experience. Methodologically, here's how I understand it: In hyper states, courageously confronting emerging experiences, you go through death-rebirth processes. My sessions over...

The first is the death of self, the shattering of your time-space identity, letting go of everything from your birth till that moment—ego death. The second was entering the collective mind. The third was entering the archetypal mind, as discussed by Carl Jung and Plato. Fourth was entering causal oneness—there is no outer boundary...

So another image. I don't have any vested interest in how many cycles of Death-Rebirth, and how you describe the multiple levels of reality. I'm going to be using the language of psychic, subtle, causal levels of reality. But we may have many different maps for mapping the vast expanse of Transpersonal territory. It's...