D was an American psychologist writer and researcher who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert later named Ram Dass Dr Metzner was a psychotherapist and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice president He received his undergraduate degree at Oxford University and his doctorate in clinical psychology at Harvard University where he was also the recipient of an NIMH Post doctoral Fellowship in psychopharmacology at the Harvard Medical School He had a life long interest in the many different realms of consciousness and its m Ralph Metzner Ph. Worlds Within and Worlds Beyond / Book 7 of the Ecology of Consciousness Series book D was an American psychologist writer and researcher who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert later named Ram Dass Dr Metzner was a psychotherapist and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice president He received his undergraduate degree at Oxford University and his doctorate in clinical psychology at Harvard University where he was also the recipient of an NIMH Post doctoral Fellowship in psychopharmacology at the Harvard Medical School He had a life long interest in the many different realms of consciousness and its modifications He is the author of The Well of Remembrance The Unfolding Self Green Psychology Birth of a Psychedelic Culture with Ram Dass editor of two collections of essays on ayahuasca and on psilocybe mushrooms and author of a new series of seven books on The Ecology of Consciousness site_link ABOUT THE BOOK In the emerging worldview of our time the two key paradigm revolutions are a recognition of the multiple dimensions or worlds and recognition of the autonomy of meta physical spirits inhabiting these many worlds In this book Dr Metzner describe two multi dimensional paradigms we have used in our entheogenic and meditative journeys of exploration and healing One is the Tibetan Buddhist Wheel of Birth and Death a mandala of our human journey through many lives and many worlds Another multi dimensional paradigm for shamanic journey practice is the World Axial Tree with its upper middle and lower worlds In the last chapters drawing on the perspectives of an expanded systems worldview and the Pythagorean octave principle I present three divination meditations on worlds within and worlds beyond ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ralph Metzner Ph. Worlds Within and Worlds Beyond / Book 7 of the Ecology of Consciousness Series psychology online D is a recognized pioneer in studies of consciousness and its transformations He is a psychotherapist and Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies where was also the Academic Dean for ten years in the 1980s He collaborated with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert in the studies of psychedelic drugs at Harvard in the 1960s and co authored The Psychedelic Experience His books include The Well of Remembrance The Unfolding Self Green Psychology and Birth of a Psychedelic Culture with Ram Dass and Gary Bravo This book is the seventh and last in a series on The Ecology of Consciousness Vol 1 The Expansion of Consciousness Vol 2 The Roots of War and Domination Vol 3 Alchemical Divination Vol 4 Mind Space and Time Stream Vol 5 The Life Cycle of the Human Soul Vol 6 The Six Pathways of Destiny All are available from Regent Press Worlds Within and Worlds Beyond Book 7 of the Ecology of Consciousness Series

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