The late Ralph Metzner, PhD, was well known as a consciousness explorer. Here he stresses the importance of metaphor in guiding and understanding human development, focussing on the metaphors of transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly, of the journey, and of death and rebirth. Dr. Metzner is author of Opening to Inner Light and Maps of Consciousness and [...]

Here he shares his understanding of how the visual system in the brain is one likely pathway by which Universal Consciousness interacts with the human nervous system. He explains how photons exist in a realm beyond space and time.

Alan shares that people who have been in a coma can report deep and vivid inner experiences, despite the widely held belief that they are not capable of having any level awareness. These people are frequently dismissed and told they are hallucinating, delirious, or having false memories. If coma survivors were debriefed there may be [...]

Here Davis and Jeffrey look at the question of crucial moments that can define one’s character and set the arc of one’s life in a particular direction. The discussion touches on both psychological and parapsychological themes.

The native shaman learns to interact with the spirits of the underworld and the higher worlds in order to intercede in behalf of humans in the “middle world.” Michael Harner, Ph.D., has authored The Jivaro, Hallucinogens and Shamanism and The Way of the Shaman. He is currently actively involved in training westerners throughout the world to become shamanic [...]

Chris shares his research into left and right-brain processing and the value of understanding these differences. He suggests we’ve gotten ourselves into a thinking problem and we’re under the illusion that we can think our way out using more thinking.

Here she describes her lengthy investigation, going back to the 1970s of the Billy Meier UFO contacts, involving many photographs and other evidence suggesting authentic contact with beings from the Pleiades system.