Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. This essay was first published as a chapter in the book Shamanism - An Expanded View
of Reality. ed. Nicholson, Shirley. Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing Co. 1987.
3. Eliade, Mircea. The Forge and the Crucible. Harper & Row, 1962.
4. Eliade, Mircea. Yoga - Immortality and Freedom. Princeton University Press, 1969;
Metzner, Ralph. Maps of Consciousness. Collier/Macmillan, 1971.
5. Walsh, Roger & Vaughan, Frances (eds.). Beyond Ego: Transpersonal Dimensions in
Psychology. J.P.Tarcher, 1980; Boorstein, Seymour, ed. Transpersonal
Psychotherapy. Palo Alto: Science & Behavior Books, 1981.
7. Edinger, Edward. Anatomy of the Psyche. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing,
1985. p. 2.
9. Evans-Wentz, W.Y. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines. Oxford University Press, 1928;
Garfield, Patricia. Creative Dreaming.New York: Ballentine, 1974; LaBerge,
Stephen. Lucid Dreaming. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1985.
10. Taimni, I.K. The Science of Yoga - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Wheaton, Ill.:
Theosophical Publishing House (Quest Books), 1975.
11. Grof, Stanislav. Beyond the Brain. Birth, Death and Transcendence in
Psychotherapy. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1986.
12. Hamel, Peter Michael. Through Music to the Self. Boulder, Co.: Shambhala, 1979.
13. Schultes, R.E. & Hofmann, A. Plants of the Gods. Origins of Hallucinogenic Use.
McGraw-Hill, 1979; Furst, Peter T.Hallucinogens and Culture. San Francisco: Chandler
& Sharp, 1976; Wasson, R. Gordon. The Wondrous Mushroom. Mycolatry in
Mesoamerica. McGraw-Hill, 1980; Dobkin de Rios, Marlene. Hallucinogens: Cross-
Cultural Perspectives. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984;
15. Strickmann, Michel. "On the Alchemy of T'ao Hung-ching." in Welch, Holmes &
Seidel, Anna (eds.) Facets of Taoism. Yale University Press, 1979; see also my Maps of
Consciousness, where, in the chapter on alchemy, some possible alchemical psychedelics
are mentioned.
18. Grof, Stanislav. op. cit.; also Grinspoon, Lester & Bakalar, James. Psychedelic Drugs
Reconsidered. Basic Books, 1979.
19. Metzner, Ralph. Opening to Inner Light. The Transformation of Human Nature and
Consciousness. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1986.
20. Lakoff, George & Johnson, Mark. Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago
Press, 1980; Smith, M. Brewster. "The Metaphorical Basis of Selfhood". in Marsell, A.,
Devos, G. & Hsu, F.L.K. (eds) Culture and Self. Asian and Western Perspectives. New
York : Tavistock Publications, 1985; Bateson, Gregory. Mind and Nature. A Necessary
Unity. E.P. Dutton, 1979.
23. Metzner, Ralph. Opening to Inner Light. chapter 4, "Purification by Inner Fire." pp.
59-74.; also, Metzner, Ralph. "On Getting to Know One's Inner Enemy". Revision
Vol. 8, No. 1, Summer/Fall 1985.
24. Stevens, Jose. "Power Animals, Animal Imagery and Self Actualization." Ph.D.
Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, 1981. For a brilliant
discussion of animal and other imagery in alchemy, see Edinger, Edward. Anatomy of the
Psyche.