Prayer and intention

Yeah, and they may be. There are certainly other players doing bad things. Any right-thinking person would want to mitigate those bad things. If we see a child being beaten, we naturally intervene to protect the child. But at a deeper level, reincarnational worldviews help us understand there’s more to a person's current situation...

Given the synchronicity of the atomic bomb's birth and LSD in the same decade, I don't think it's accidental. I see it as an amplifier and catalyst of consciousness, akin to Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, DMT, and 5-MeO-DMT. Each substance has its own characteristics. LSD, relatively new, has little historical background, making it unusually clean compared...

Yeah, I think that's the case, and nothing wrong with that. It is a wasted opportunity. So much depends on the focus and environment. Staying in touch with the world gives a certain kind of encounter, but isolating yourself with conscious intention creates possibilities. It can heal life's knots and increase receptivity to larger...

That the universe is a manifestation of a vast, singular consciousness beyond our notions and philosophies, intentional in its creation. We are part of this intelligence, our essence mirroring the totality's essence—ancient ideas phrased as "Atman is Brahman." Reincarnation is a fundamental reality; understanding life's cycles and challenges reflects deeper, intentional patterns inviting personal...

That aligns well, and you're correct. I wouldn't recommend a specific doorway, but psychedelics have entered history at a time when we need heightened awareness—for therapeutic processes, political processes, and more. Thousands are conscientiously working with psychedelics to heal accumulated traumas and open up deeper communion with the universe's intelligence. This helps us transition...

When the pressure is on, amazing things can happen, huh?

Yeah, I think—

And I address this in "Lifecycles." Human suffering brings us to our knees, and I don't think we have an adequate understanding or explanation of it. In my experience, when I have been drawn into this larger overview, and when I have experienced the intelligence behind this process, I have found myself trusting beyond...

Yeah, so quick answers to those is, as soon as I read Stan's work, I just knew that this was something I wanted to get involved in. And I've come to recognize, you know, your soul's code. When you recognize something, that just speaks to you so deeply, you know it's part of your...

And I address this in "Life Cycles," human suffering brings us to our knees, and I don't think we have an adequate understanding or explanation of it. In my experience, when I have been drawn into this larger overview, and when I have experienced the intelligence behind this process, I have found myself trusting...

I've often had reservations about that particular line in my sessions, but I kept it in because it's in my original notes. When the ocean of suffering came to a culmination, it exploded me into a deeper level of consciousness. The distinctive quality of this level of consciousness is two things: it was incredibly...

It's one of the reasons I'm so comfortable with what you're saying, Dan, because it's coherent with my experience in the classroom—this growing understanding of the porosity of mind, the field nature of our individual and collective consciousness. When individuals come together and focus their intention, they create a field. Classes develop fields over...

Well, Stan was very clear in his early books and in LSD Psychotherapy, published in 1980, the protocol differences between psycholytic and low-dose therapy versus psychedelic high-dose therapy. Psycholytic running doses anywhere from 50 to 150 micrograms and high-dose psychedelic therapy between 350 to 500. At that time, high-dose psychedelic therapy was being used...

Well, Stan was very clear in his early books and in LSD Psychotherapy, which was published in 1980, about the protocol differences between psychedelic and low-dose therapy versus psychedelic high-dose therapy. Psychelytic therapy runs doses anywhere from 50 to 150 micrograms, and high-dose psychedelic therapy ranges from 350 to 500. At that time, high-dose...

This was my 19th session. By then, I was 3-4 years into the work. I had experienced ego death and entered what's described as the Ocean of Suffering, navigating the collective psyche's most torturous memories. As a grace or gift for volunteering to heal some aspect of the collective psyche, the universe gave me...

Yes, that was my intention. I'm not a therapist, though I've received much healing in this work and I'm always grateful for it. But that was not my primary intention. I was trained as a philosopher of religion. I wanted to explore the universe as deeply as I could and understand not only my...

I agree with you, and this is my experience. When I would go deeper and deeper and deeper into these levels of reality, I always experienced it as a remembering. I was remembering. I was remembering, and I don't have any sense that in forgetting that that was a tragedy or that was somehow...

My visions did not give me any details about how or when this would take place, except that we were entering a profound global systems crisis that was being triggered by a series of ecological crises around the planet, and this was of a scale and magnitude that was historically unprecedented. I was also...

The universe is 13.7 billion years old. Our planet is about four and a half billion years old. When we plot the evolving structure of Homo, we go through Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and the various stages. We got the big brain, the 50% increase in our brain about 100,000 years ago, and self-awareness...

The teaching you're referring to is present but maybe not the full intention. My understanding of the ocean of suffering is different. Not everyone has to face the hell realms or spend as long as I did. It manifested so quickly and was so tenacious in my experience. I think this was literally a...

Yes, before time and space, when the absolute chose to manifest existence, the physical universe's density shattered oneness into pieces that could awaken individually within the divine. This gift of individuality is profound. I don't think the intention is to destroy it; rather, the universe fosters our individuality as we awaken.

I think it's a combination of both. The essence of this practice is surrender; once conditions are safe, you surrender to the experience. Lower doses disrupt psychological structure less, so your reasons for the work can influence it more. With high doses, my personal experience was that any intention was quickly shattered, and a...

The next level of work for me involved an encounter that took place at the archetypal level of consciousness in the chapter "The Greater Real of Archetypal Reality." So much that I could say here—trying to keep it short so we can go into the questions and answers soon. I found that basically, I...

For those wanting to explore psychedelics, clarity of intention, meticulous set and setting, and a long-term engagement strategy are essential. Tripping can be life-changing, but for deep inner work, you need a clear field. Retention and grounding are key, particularly if you engage with radical experiences that challenge your existing perspectives. This requires stability...

The intelligence giving you blessings is teaching you—these blessings are given intentionally. If your psychedelic work is disciplined and part of a spiritual practice, everything you're given lays the foundation for future work you will do. Your entire relationship with the universe is one of maturational development. Once you feel the rhythm of this...

Well, when one of the questioners asked if we have any practical suggestions for techniques to help people discover their former lives, I don't want to say there are shortcuts. There is the living with this information and systematic exploration of your deep consciousness, which is following your memories to earlier stages. This can...

Okay? Looks like it's just as a winner. Okay. This is my psychedelic lineage. My psychedelic lineage basically grounds in the work of Stanislav Grof. When I was 29 years old, fresh out of graduate school, just beginning my academic career in Ohio, I met Stan Grof's work, Realms of the Human Unconscious, and...

I completely share what you're saying, because I do carry unusual knowledge, as you do. At the beginning of our series, we talked about the evidence for reincarnation, and I was in my professorial mode, intellectually digesting this evidence. In the second conversation, there was a blending of that type of knowledge and the...

Yes, absolutely. I want to mention at the outset that sometimes thinkers in reincarnation go toward the notion that every tiny aspect of our life has a deterministic quality. But I don't think we need to go there necessarily since chance is a powerful element of this universe. We can affirm meaning and intentionality...

It certainly wasn't me. I was never in control of my sessions. Working with high doses of LSD, you can set intentions, but you can't direct what happens. It's a collaboration. My responsibility was to create a clear field for contact: isolation, focus, and detailed transcripts post-session. What happened after setting the stage was...

The Ocean of Suffering lasted two years and 14 sessions, divided into one year of work, a six-year break, and resumed work. After six years, under different circumstances and astrological conditions, my sessions began exactly where they left off, indicating the guiding intelligence's intentionality. When the ecstatic portion resumed after the break, it began...

You know, I've never explored that aspect or it was never put in front of me. I never directed my sessions. I tried to set intentions, but a deeper intelligence laid all the groundwork for what happened. Essentially, it never took me there, but the very nature of the experiences it took me into—it...

That kind of jumps ahead in the storyline a bit. I was not aware of any particular synchronicities going into the work. But I'll just tag this, and maybe we'll come back later. As my work deepened over the course of those 20 years, even though my students never knew I was doing this...

Entering deeper levels of consciousness puts one in higher levels of energy, requiring work with the body and subtle energy system to detoxify and strengthen it. Purification is essential in working with psychedelics. In Tibetan Vajrayāna, monks do ngondro, which involves 100,000 prostrations while reciting mantras and prayers, transforming and strengthening their subtle energy...

Yes and yes. Intention is powerful, especially collective, focused intention. It influences our body, circumstances, and people. David Nichols wrote about subtle activism, where global meditations integrate consciousness into prayerful exercises. Spiritual traditions organize students worldwide at certain times for powerful practices. The spiritual universe is highly populated. Sacred medicine traditions encounter life forms...

Now, psychedelic sessions have two halves. There is the first half, which is the cleansing half, where I was experiencing this ocean of suffering. Then, there's the second half. You go through a certain amount of work, and the suffering comes to a culmination, and after that, the rest of the session, you're spun...

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...

Is Robert here yet? He's coming. Here he is. Among his many illustrious publications, one of the ones that you may not come across too often is his beautiful introduction, his prologue, preface to The Living Classroom, which is a great honor. And he really made me look pretty good, very good. It was...

"The light of God surrounds us, the love of God enfolds us, the power of God protects us, the presence of God watches over us. Wherever we are, God is and all is well."

Yes, I believe so. The community of Heaven is in rapport with the community of Earth. We can assist those who have died. At the Monroe Institute, there's training for people to leave their bodies, find those stuck in the post-mortem state, and take them to the park. Once in the park, they progress...