Mind of the Universe

When I was doing it, as you said, no one else was. I couldn't really talk about it. My friends in the department knew, but they didn't really know. I didn't bring it to campus or my students, which became a problem. I'm a talker; I love to learn and share, but I could...

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

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.

Well, we've just gone through an election in our country, which was, for the liberal side of the continent like me, very disappointing and very upsetting. What's happening in politics, in my country and in many countries around the world, this whole movement to the conservative right is very much of concern, especially since...

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...

Hi Sandy. It's a pleasure to be with you today.

Yeah, first, Stephen, thank you, buddy, for that very nice and warm introduction. I really appreciate our friendship, and I appreciate what you're doing with the conference, and Marc, you too. This is a great conference. It's my favorite psychedelic conference to participate in, and I always find it such a rich setting and...

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

Thank you, everyone. It's a pleasure to be here with you tonight. Since my understanding is that psychedelics is not a frequent topic in the San Diego Integral community, in talking with Kathy, Tom, and people on your board, we decided that we would begin with a short breakout before I talk, just to...

Thank you, Sandy. It's a pleasure to be here with you.

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

I'm doing well, thank you. I say that very sincerely. After reading your book, and from the other people who I know who've read your book as well, the question that comes up about halfway through is, why in the world did he continue when you went through that much pain, that much suffering,...

Yes, that was the publisher's title, but my title, while I was writing the book, was always Diamonds from Heaven.

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

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

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

Well, I have to go back to 1978 when I had just started my university position at YSU. That first year, I encountered the work of Ian Stevenson, whose research on reincarnation turned my worldview upside down. I also encountered the work of Stanislav Grof, who turned me upside down even more because he...

I'm great. Welcome, everybody. It's a real honor to be here with you today.

It's a pleasure to be here, Bas and everyone. Thanks for the invitation. My voice is rough due to a cold, but this material is too important to pass up, especially an opportunity to talk with Duane, a friend for over 25 years. Our research and writing brought us together; now it's a deep,...

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

It all began right after I finished graduate school in 1978. I started my career as a professor of religious studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio, and I read Stan Grof's first book, Realms of the Human Unconscious, and I knew immediately that this was critically important work to my discipline, which was...

Thank you, Luke, it's good to be here with you. Awesome.

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,...

Basically, I made my living as a university professor at a modest university in Northeast Ohio. I'm a professor of religious studies. I have a degree in theology from Notre Dame and New Testament criticism in Cambridge, and a PhD in Philosophy of Religion from Brown—so very classically educated. I was raised in the...

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,...

Okay, you bet that's a good place to start. In my understanding, in my experience, psychedelics in general, and in particular LSD, which was my primary medicine in this journey, is an amplifier of consciousness. When consciousness is amplified, signals which are quiet become large, become loud, and you have the sensation of becoming...

Share in the animistic community is the belief that nature is infused with consciousness, fused with mind and soul. And, of course, now we know how vast the physical universe is, and the question becomes, how large is the mind of the universe? How deep is it? So, I was just out of graduate...

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.

Well, you know, as I've written about in my book LSD and the Mind of the Universe, there's a chapter on the birth of the future human, where I summarize all the visions that I was given through many years of doing the deep psychedelic work that I did. And I don't know whether...

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...

It's a pleasure to be with you today, Stephen, an honor to be in your memorial voyage.

Sure, that's fine, great. I'll tell you, now that the book's out, the first round of interviews and all that stuff, COVID hit, stepping back, digesting people's first reactions—I don't think I sent you a copy of an article that I just sent to Cy MedNet in England. Basically, I'm calling it a postscript...

Real pleasure.

So we're anticipating three discussions.

Give me just a second, folks, to hook up my technology.

Yeah, you described the in-breaking of the vision and being drawn into the deep experience of revelation. Deep visions can't fit into small containers. When nature or the divine invites us into a deeper experience, it has to purify us, and you describe that contracting process. It's our past, everything about us keeping us...