This fascinating reference covers the major topics concerning dreaming and sleep, based on the latest empirical evidence from sleep research as well as drawn from a broad range of dream-related interdisciplinary contexts, including history and anthropology.
Race and the Unconscious engages the archetypal African consciousness that enriches our knowledge regarding the foundational mythopoetic of Africanist dreaming.
This authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of altered states of consciousness (ASC) shows how their study is necessary to gain a fundamental understanding of human culture, history, and biology.
This fascinating and highly original book presents a longitudinal systematic study of the earliest form of human dreaming in a child, from ages 4 through 10.
Understanding the Dream Sociogram, the complementary volume to Dream Sociometry, explains how to take sociometric data from dreams and life issues and create a Dream Sociogram, to reveal patterns of intrasocial dynamics that clarify conflicts and reveal pathways to transformation.
The Dream Frontier is that rare book that makes available the cumulative wisdom of a century's worth of clinical examination of dreams and then reconfigured that wisdom on the basis of research in cognitive neuroscience.
Essays on the role of the body in self-consciousness, showing that full-fledged, linguistic self-consciousness is built on a rich foundation of primitive, nonconceptual self-consciousness.
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.
Naturally occurring DMT may produce prophecy-like states of consciousness and thus represent a bridge between biology and religious experience *; Reveals the striking similarities between the visions of the Hebrew prophets and the DMT state described by Strassman's research volunteers *; Explains how prophetic and psychedelic states may share biological mechanisms *; Presents a new top-down ';theoneurological' model of spiritual experience After completing his groundbreaking research chronicled in DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Rick Strassman was left with one fundamental question: What does it mean that DMT, a simple chemical naturally found in all of our bodies, instantaneously opens us to an interactive spirit world that feels more real than our own world?
"e;The splendor of values"e;In a world that is often characterized by hectic and superficiality, the doors open to a collection of short stories that focus on the splendor of true values.
For both students and practicing counselors, this book fills the gaps that exist between many current academic programs and practitioner's needs for focused training on how to better assist clients with dream interpretations.
Recent clinical trials show that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin can be given safely in controlled conditions, and can cause lasting psychological benefits with one or two administrations.
A collection of some of Jung's most important essays on the archetypes and the collective unconsciousThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious features many of Jung's most important essays describing and elaborating on these two central, related concepts.
Although the name 'hypnotism' was first coined in 1850, the idea of hypnotising someone is thousands of years old and can be traced back to Ancient Egypt and beyond.
By presenting a holistic and integrated health and wellbeing approach to personalised care through wellness coaching, this handbook provides theory, insights, best practice, case studies and CPD activities in order to deepen practitioners' knowledge and experience.
A collection of some of Jung's most important essays on the archetypes and the collective unconsciousThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious features many of Jung's most important essays describing and elaborating on these two central, related concepts.
This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and outside of anthropology.
Between 2007 and 2011, Michael Eigen gave three seminars in Seoul, each running over three days and covering different aspects of psychoanalysis, spirituality and the human psyche.
The acclaimed discoverer of LSD's personal experiences and thoughts on chemistry, the natural sciences, mind-altering drugs, the soul, and the search for happiness *; Shares a different side of the father of LSD, one known only to his friends and close colleagues *; Explains Hofmann's different methods of pharmaceutical research based on traditional plant medicine *; Includes the poetry of this mystical prophet of psychedelic science Best known as the first person to synthesize, ingest, and discover the psychedelic effects of LSD, Albert Hofmann was more than just a chemist.
Den Trauma-Integrationsprozess gezielt fördern- Retraumatisierungen wirkungsvoll verhindern- Zahlreiche auf die Prozessdynamik abgestimmte Interventionen- Mit einem Vorwort von Prof.
A book for men and women from middle age to advanced years who have suddenly and unexpectedly become confronted with the huge effects that the male prostate can have on the body.
Stanislav Grofs grosses Handbuch der psychonautischen Praxis, eine Enzyklopädie über die Vielfalt psychedelischer Erfahrungen, verdichtet das Wissen des Autors, eines erfahrenen Psychiaters, Psychotherapeuten, Psychonauten und Erfolgsautors, der seit vielen Jahrzehnten professionellerweiterte, veränderte, sprich holotrope Bewusstseinszustände erforscht.
Der dritte und letzte Band der »Ontosophie« ist geprägt von Ackers naturwissenschaftlichem Hintergrund und von seinem umfassenden Interesse für das menschliche Verhältnis zum Unendlichen, wie es nicht zuletzt auch von spirituellen und insbesondere anthroposophischen und fernöstlichen Welterzählungen behandelt wird.
Die "Einführung in die Katathym Imaginative Psychotherapie (KIP)" von Harald Ullmann stellt eine vielseitig anwendbare therapeutische Methode vor, die alternative Behandlungsansätze und -theorien auf kreative Weise zu integrieren vermag.
This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and outside of anthropology.
An argument that qualitative representations—symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units—are central to human cognition.
There is good and increasing evidence that cultivating compassion for one's self and others can have a profound impact on our physiological, psychological and social processes.
