Great Death / Great Awakening

From a deep spiritual perspective, asking what's causing this inner turbulence, we might look at individual mystics' lives, which are well-documented. Before the breakthrough of enlightenment, there's the dark night of the soul—personal cleansing. From a reincarnational perspective, we're cleaning the basement. All incompatible history with enlightenment—convictions and urges incompatible with universal love—are forced...

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...

The universe is taking us into a profound death and rebirth process, which in many ways will be very similar to the death and rebirth process that we have seen mystics go through when they enter the dark night of the soul. A time of intense purification until their natural, spontaneous, spiritual nature shines...

We're living in a time of ascending spiritual energy pressing in on us. The pain of our history and our ego-driven lives keep us insensitive to this light. Before past mystics break into non-dual consciousness, they experience a dark night of the soul, letting go of obstacles. This is happening collectively—intense psychedelic sessions, past...

So, the dynamic that's unusual is that nature seems intent on awakening the entire species. The entire species will go through what individual mystics have gone through in their awakening. The individual mystic experiences the dark night of the soul—a period of intense purification, offloading past karma and negativity en route to spiritual awakening...

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...

That's a child worth the labor we're going into to give birth to. We are going into terribly severe labor. Our past is being stripped away. It will be stripped away. We will lose all capacities that we associate with normal existence. This happens in all mystical traditions; in all psychedelic traditions, the small...

Well, I want to be careful. I don't want to overgeneralize the insights or truths that emerge in a psychedelic session and apply them to circumstances in our everyday life. We'd have to make necessary adjustments to it. In a psychedelic session, when we hyper amplify consciousness, consciousness begins to clean itself. It begins...

I learned over and over again, in many different settings and contexts, that the work of spiritual transformation of the individual and the work of spiritual transformation of the collective are all intertwined, and there are no absolute boundaries. There are relative boundaries, but there are no absolute boundaries. In my book, "Dark Night,...

Then, in the 55th session, it took me into what I call the Great Awakening session. It took me deep into the future, allowing me to experience the death and rebirth of the human species. I don’t mean a physical death and rebirth but a sort of psycho-spiritual death and rebirth, though it did...

You're right. We face a crisis of meaning because early scientific materialism stripped the world of significance. It's a bleak perspective taught in education, but psychedelics can break that bubble, leading us to experience the intelligence behind the universe. Psychedelics can initiate us into an ancient and new worldview, recognizing layers of intelligence in...

My understanding is that the Diamond Luminosity is an extra-Samsaric reality that lies outside the Bardo, outside of Samsara, outside all the cycles of physical reality, and the Bardo realities of psychic reality. It is the pure light from which the universe arises and returns. It is Dharmakāya, the clear light of absolute reality....

There are three components, two of which we'll focus on today: visions of awakening, a series of visions from 1991 to 1994—a long time ago, over 30 years—depicting humanity's evolutionary development. Followed by the Great Awakening session in 1995, leading to the final vision near the end of my journey. Today, it's about visions...

The genius of the universe has all the answers to all the technological questions we want to have answered, and we just are not able to download all that knowledge. The diamond soul is a more complete and higher potency of a human being that can enter into deeper downloads from divine intelligence. It's...

Yeah, maybe as a footnote to my earlier comment to bridge into this new wing: I think Sri Aurobindo's critique of Buddhism is correct in criticizing Buddhism for not sufficiently confronting the fact of existence—the extraordinary power and majesty of existence. In rejecting anything static and form-based, in its agnosticism and anti-theism, Aurobindo says...

Nothing has changed. It's been interesting to watch COVID; it's been interesting to watch ecological awareness begin to grow. Frankly, things are coming to a head faster than I had expected. I expect this decade—if everything the scientists are telling us is true—this decade is the last window we have to change the trajectory...

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.

The birth of the future human became a theme as I understood our species reaching a turning point, entering a profound transformation. This consistent theme showed humanity approaching a moment of great awakening.

That's a big topic. Okay, I'm happy to touch on it. Again, it was one of the deep surprises of my journey because I'd never imagined something like this would become part of it. I was thinking in terms of the conventional descriptions of enlightenment you find in spiritual or mystical traditions. But systematically,...

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...

The final chapter, "The Birth of the Future Human," is a story that surprised me, revealing my work's profound connection to our species' history, collective purification, and transformation processes. In this chapter, I summarize teachings given to me over 15 years, spanning multiple sessions and visions. This is the material I'd like to discuss...

New social initiatives were basically an unleashing of something we had learned, something that had taken place in the center of the human heart in the midst of this crisis. Just as a saint, undergoing intense spiritual practice, goes through purification—which John of the Cross calls the dark night of the soul—likewise, in our...

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...

We are poised on the edge of a profound awakening, and in all these visions, which I'm going through so fast, the consciousness of our universe was trying to awaken the entire human species. I was not shown how this was going to take place or even how possible it was. Then, about a...

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...

Over five years of sessions, I repeatedly received the same story, different aspects of which I describe in this chapter. I gathered visions concerning humanity's future here. The first are the visions of awakening—six visions revealing a profound awakening of the human psyche and heart, what I call the Great Awakening: a shift in...

There was tremendous pressure building, an acceleration of consciousness dynamics, and detoxification through the reincarnation of generations. This was not merely influencing individuals but the entire human species—a collective dynamic. The vision showed we are coming to a great awakening, with an exponential increase in our psychological and psychophysical capacity. However, it gave no...

I hope not many would choose the way I did. We are continuously in dialogue with infinite intelligence. When taking psychedelics, our system goes through purification, facing things we'd rather not. This is the universe healing us. In that healing, we open to new levels of intimacy with the universe. Everyone must find their...

Where the sessions went next, chronologically, was into the Diamond Luminosity work. But before I go into that, I need to backtrack a little and talk about the birth of the future human. When I started this work, I never imagined that what I'm about to describe would become part of it. I thought...

Reoccurring and deepening theme of my psychedelic work went on for many, many years, and a big hunk of it I put down in the chapter in Dark Night, Early Dawn, in the Great Awakening chapter. But it kept on going after that. In the last three sessions of the series—I didn't know it...

I think, yes, the relationship of individual consciousness and collective consciousness, particularly in this evolutionary pivot that we are making, is really the dominant theme of my second book, Dark Night, Early Dawn, where I'm talking about the dark night of the soul and the dawn of the rebirth consciousness. But here the emphasis...