Cosmic Mind

Well, I'm actually the last person you would have thought from the beginning of my life to end up writing a book on describing what happens on the long series of high-dose LSD sessions. I was raised in the Deep South, in Mississippi. I was a seminarian in the early days, studying to be...

Thank you, Emmy, it's a pleasure to be here.

Good point and an important consideration. The question isn't just whether they would interpret their experiences differently, but whether they would have different experiences because of different conditioning. This is a discussion I've had with Ken Ring, one of the founders of near-death episode research. He and I published our dialog around whether deep...

Thank you, David. Let me shift into screen sharing, if I can do this correctly. Good. Okay. Well, thank you, David, and thank you, everybody. It's an honor and a pleasure to be here with you tonight, and I really look forward to sharing with you the experiences that I'm reporting in this book,...

Well, I think we act like old ones. I think what we're doing is growing up. We see the prototypes in Jesus and Muhammad and the Buddha in some of the great saints of history, whose natural horizons are so large, whose compassion is so deep, whose ability to download information from cosmic mind...

However, we're not talking about nuclear bombs here. We're talking about entering the mind of the universe, the great expanse of consciousness. How do we describe this consciousness? Some might describe it as God or the divine, but I would prefer to call it the mind of the universe, the mind of the cosmos....

Yes. And as I experience it, at least, our individual mind is a fractal embodiment, a fractal manifestation of this larger cosmic mind. So at one level, there is a functional duality, which we might call a small mind and the big mind, but at a deeper level, there really isn't a duality. There...

I've never taken LSD and gone to a concert or stayed up talking with friends. It's a specific methodology, completely internalized. It's Stan Grof's psychedelic therapy, as he describes in his book LSD Psychotherapy. You're totally isolated, in a private space, lying down, wearing eye shades, and listening to carefully selected music. My first...