Dark night

I don't think I would have had the courage to go some places I ended up if Stan hadn't been there first and survived to tell about it. Outside of that, Stan and I became friends and colleagues. He wrote the foreword to Dark Night, Early Dawn and brought me to some of the...

Thank you, Emmy. It's wonderful to be in conversation with you.

The visions took place between 1979 and 1999, experiencing the death and rebirth of humanity. As mystics teach, before a Great Awakening, a great death—the dark night of the soul—occurs. Humanity is entering this dark night, confronting historical karma. In these sessions, I witnessed the collapse of civilization, seemingly driven by an ecological crisis...

When I started the LSD work in 1979, I had to keep it pretty under tight wraps. I couldn't bring it out publicly at all. It wasn't until I wrote "Dark Night, Early Dawn," which was my first book on psychedelic work, that I began going to conferences and began to teach at CIIS...

What an honor to be here with you today to celebrate Bicycle Day—an opportunity for the psychedelic community to come together, to see each other, reunite, and make plans for the future. Now, I know what you're probably thinking. You look at me and think, "He doesn't look like he's done a whole lot...

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

Yeah. And then I spent another 20 years digesting those experiences, writing about them, integrating them, trying to integrate them, and wrote two books based on those experiences. One of them is Dark Night, Early Dawn, which came out in 2000, and probably the more important one for a wide audience, is LSD and...

Hi everybody. Sure, it's nice to see you. And thank you for all of your warm greetings. It really touched my heart, and I hope we have a lot of fun today. Because many of you know my work, I just want to show you something which I think you'd like to see. In...

Yep.

Well, I'm always hesitant to jump into this, because my experiences are based upon shamanic, rigorous use of LSD. And when everyone hears LSD, they think of the '60s, they think hallucinations. This is very far from that. This is really within a therapeutic tradition. It's within the Stan Grof tradition. It's the systematic...

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...

Again, it's a person who has written such an extraordinary series of books. When I was trying to understand, as I say in my notes here, when I was trying to understand why my psychedelic purification healing experiences had expanded so exponentially to include hundreds of thousands of human beings, the whole breadth of...

It's a good question. If we eliminate the arrow of time, then reincarnation begins to look like multi-incarnation, not reincarnation. Some people have conceptualized this. We're living all of our lives simultaneously, interacting in a way that befuddles the logic of linear development, and it requires a different kind of logic. I've tried to...

Hi, Tami. It's a pleasure to be here with you this evening.

Now, that's not false; it's true. However, we're missing something if we stop there. When we understand that every human being on the planet is a reincarnating essence, we realize that reincarnation is a collective driver. It's not just about personal salvation or transformation; it's an evolutionary driver of the highest magnitude. In my...

Thank you, Aviv, it's a real pleasure to be here with you today.

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, thank you very much, Heather, and thank you, everybody, for inviting me here and letting me spend this time with you. Let's get into it. We have this topic we're looking at today, the birth of the future human—it’s a huge topic, so we'll have to trim it a little and shape it,...

It's a good question. If we eliminate the arrow of time, then reincarnation begins to look like multi-incarnation, not reincarnation. Some people have conceptualized us living all of our lives simultaneously, and we're interacting. All these lives are active and interacting in a way that befuddles the logic of linear development and requires a...

Well, I know it's a radical book, and I think we are at a pivot point in history, and I think that psychedelics represent a major transition point, a true historical before-and-after point with respect to philosophy, not just psychology. It generates not only a new therapeutic protocol for healing the personal psyche, but...

Thank you, Roger. It's a very warm introduction, and I'm just delighted to be here with you and John today. It's a pleasure.

I'm glad to be here.

Thank you, Donna, my pleasure, and thank you everyone for spending part of your Sunday with me. It's a pleasure to be here, a pleasure to talk about these things, and I'm really looking forward to our discussion that follows my comments here. So let me first shift us into share screen so I...

Following that, there was a more intense purification process I call the dark night of the soul. The work pivoted clearly away from personal transformation and entered into the collective psyche, focusing on the transformation of the species mind itself.

You're certainly right. In my local community, we're not suffering much, and I'm retired, I haven't lost my job, I know where my next meal is coming from. A lot of people don't have those certainties. If we just expand the horizon to include the hundreds of thousands of people who are ecological migrants...

I began to experience reincarnation as a collective process, experiencing the species as a self-evolving organism through all individual lives. This understanding dissolved the boundary between personal and collective karma, showing their deep interconnection. I wrote "Dark Night, Early Dawn" to answer why my suffering went so deep and long: because at this consciousness...

My pleasure, Luisa. It's nice to be with you.

I've picked this picture of the Earth to start with because the Earth is going into convulsions. It seems like there's no way to stop it. Now, we can ameliorate it, but we're going into the dark night of our collective soul. We have set in motion a sequence of events that's taking us...

Thank you. Philosophically, the important aspect of reincarnation research is that it invalidates our dominant paradigm about consciousness. Our dominant thought in university culture is that our minds are produced by our brains. The brain is considered the core reality, giving rise to the mind. But if there is any period between the death...

To summarize, the core vision that came from my sessions helps me personally understand what's happening in history now. Humanity is coming into a time of profound transformation, a shift in the collective unconscious of our species, a shift in the archetypal blueprint of humanity, and a profound awakening into oneness. But for there...

Hi, Ryan. It's a pleasure to be here with you today.

It was quite an adventure, quite a long and interesting journey.

Focusing on the human race, my work gave me many visionary experiences of human evolution. Consciousness opening to the species mind brings insights into its developmental trajectory. Humanity is approaching a great awakening, but it requires a deep purification process—a dark night of the collective soul. Confronting our historical shortcomings, we open to emerging...

Hi, everyone. Thank you, Jessica and Travis. Thank you for this opportunity to share my work with the participants in Trust Psyche. It's truly an honor to do so. It's also an overwhelming task because this book covers so many dimensions of consciousness. It covers so many years of work, and when I talk...

Well, I was actually a professor of religious studies, and I taught in a Philosophy and Religious Studies program at the university, which is part of the Ohio State system, up in the northeast corner of the state. I'm really excited about the conference. I'm very pleased that the book is actually being released...

I began to have experiences of reincarnation as a collective phenomenon. I'd previously written a book on reincarnation, envisioning it as an individual soul story: learning, hopefully making progress, reborn, and our individual choices leading to an improving destiny as our soul matures. But now, I began to experience the entire planet as a...

Yes.

After my sessions, Spirit said to me, "20 years in, 20 years out." It sounded right; 20 years to integrate those experiences. Now, "Diamonds from Heaven," being published 20 years after I stopped my sessions, seems apt. The depth of the loneliness I experienced was not due to failure in my sessions, but from...

I give my sessions names to help me remember them. I try to give them a name that represents the pith of each session, and I break my sessions down into bullet points. I'm trying to remember the entire session and the entire journey. These are the names of the sessions that I'm addressing...

Well, I was trained as a philosopher of religion. Philosophers of religion are concerned with exploring the deeper questions of existence, the meaning of life, the structure of the universe, and the limits of human consciousness. These are the questions I was trained to pursue in graduate school. Then I came to Youngstown State...