Dharmakaya

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 not a silly question at all. The phrase "Diamond Luminosity" points to states of consciousness I entered in the last five years of my work. I'd gone through the perinatal process, solid ego death, into the ocean of suffering, and into archetypal reality. In the last five years, I was catapulted into a...

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...

Fifteen years into my journey, I received more blessings than I could have imagined, having paid my dues in the ocean of suffering work, rewarded with more blessings than I could count. Yet, there were five years remaining, and I went through another death and rebirth process, entering what I call the domain of...

It took me a while to figure it out after my work ended in '99, when plotting the larger trajectory for the book. I differentiated five levels of consciousness that seemed operational. The first is at the level of personal mind, going beyond personal time-space identity, culminating in what we call ego death. The...

I have to back up a bit. I went through another death-rebirth process, entering what I call causal mind — the universe experienced as a condition of consciousness where everything is one. All of life pulses as a single totality, an overwhelming experience of fundamental oneness, where personal boundaries dissolve. I encountered Shunyata, or...

I don't think I would handle it differently at the moment of my final death, whenever that takes place, than I could handle it now. If I were to die right now, the training I went through in my psychedelic work—it's just as you say, training to die—actually becomes training in how to live....

There are many blessings in this work—insight, transformation, opening—but I use "diamonds from heaven" more specifically. After 15 years and moving through ego deaths and deeper realities, I was catapulted into a dimension of pure, crystalline light. I had experienced light before, but this was diamond consciousness—an ultra-clear quality not metaphorical. Over the last...

From here, my sessions took me next into the diamond Luminosity material in the chapter called Diamond Luminosity. This chapter covers 26 sessions and four years of work. In those four years, I entered this state, which I call diamond Luminosity, four times and only four times. I entered a state of reality that...

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...

The level of archetypal mind is described in the chapter "The Greater Real of Archetypal Reality," engaging archetypal forces responsible for creating time and space, bringing forth forms that emerge. At the level of causal oneness, the universe is experienced as a single, organic whole, transcending differentiation. The story of Diamond Luminosity is told...

Everybody has different measures of tolerance and different circumstances. I don't think it's wise to push, even though I did this as responsibly as I could, taking very good care of my body throughout and between sessions. I was doing about five sessions a year. I worked for four years, stopped for six years,...

Hmm. Let me just kind of lay out some of the sequences, the categories. When I got to the end of the journey, well, I went through what I experienced as a series of punctuated death and rebirth experiences. I would break into a new level of consciousness. I would then stabilize at that...

So this was a major change in my thinking. It took place in the 50th session. My background is, I did four years of work. I stopped for six years, and then I did 10 years of work, so 14 years of active work over 20 years. When I was entering into the last...

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...

So, this was a major change in my thinking. It took place in the 50th session. So, my background is I did four years of work, I stopped for six years, and then I did ten years of work. So, 14 years of active work over 20 years. But when I was entering into...

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...

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...

In the last five years, I encountered what I call the Diamond Luminosity. My understanding is that this is what the Buddhists call Dharmakaya, the domain of light that lies outside Samsara, the luminescent clear light from which all existence emerges. Over 26 sessions, I entered that reality only four times, with intense purification...

Yeah, that was after I stopped the journey. Yes, so I have to fill in a little bit of a blank, and then I can say what happened after the journey. In the book Diamonds from Heaven, I tell the story of ego death, moving into the ocean of suffering, and then moving into...