Talk on the Healing Potential of Non Ordinary States of Consciousness, especially states elicited by the use of MDMA and Ketamine in psychedelic assisted therapy.

1. THE HEALING
POTENTIAL OF
NON-ORDINARY
STATES
OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Veronika Gold
July 15th 2020
Presentation for Psychedelic Society UK

2. STANISLAV GROF MD PHD
THE HOLOTROPIC MIND
LSD PSYCHOTHERAPY
THE ADVENTURE OF SELF-DISCOVERY
BEYOND THE BRAIN
SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY
THE COSMIC GAME
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FUTURE
THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY
THE WAY OF THE PSYCHONAUT VOLUME I AND II
AND MANY OTHER BOOKS AND ARTICLES

3. v Spontaneous (e.g. daydreaming)
v Physical and Physiological (e.g. fasting, sex)
v Psychological (e.g. meditation, hypnosis, music)
v Pathological (e.g. epilepsy, brain damage)
v Pharmacological (e.g. psychoactive substances)(Vaitl)

4. vDaydreams, dreams and lucid dreams
vEuphoria and ecstasy
vMindfulness, meditative experiences and Divination Experiences
vPsychotic, manic, and dissociative states
vVisual and Auditory Hallucinations
vPremonitions, finding lost objects and people
vLong distance healings
vOut of body experiences
vNear death experiences
vChanneling experiences
vPrevious and future lifetime memories and experiences
vMystical Experiences
vSynesthesia and ESP (extrasensory perception)
vUnity Consciousness and Transcendence
vContact with spiritual entities such as interdimensional beings
vPerinatal experiences - Intrauterine and birth memories
vContact with demonic entities and hell realms
vContact with Spiritual Masters/Teachers and Archetypal Beings
vContact/Abduction by Extraterrestrial experiences
vPsychic surgery
vAutomatic handwriting
vMessages/communication with ancestors and the deceased

5. v Healing Potential
v Transformative Potential
v Evolutionary Potential
v Heuristic Potential
Art by Jake Kobrin

6. Stanislav Grof
v Biographical
v Perinatal
v Collective/Mythological
v Archetypal
v Mystical/Causal
- Based on work with LSD
and other holotropic states
Chris Bache
v Personal/Biographical
v Collective
v Archetypal
v Oneness/Causal Realm
v Diamond Luminosity
-based on work with LSD
Eli Kolp
v Out of Body experience
v Near to Death Experience
v Ego Dissolution
Transformational
experience
- Based on work with
Ketamine

7. GEN, documentary about Stanislav Grof by Igor Chaun, 1994
Michal Vancura and Stan Grof

8. Perinatal Experiences
I – Before the onset of delivery
II - Labor before the dilation of cervix
III – Labor after dilation of cervix
IV – Final propulsion through birth canal

9. MDMA ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY
v Empathogenic State
v Personal/Biographical/Relational
v Re-experiencing of memories
v Somatic Healing, Somatic Integration
v Trauma processing and integration through NOSC
v In relationship with therapist/s
v Reconnection with inner healing intelligence/inner
healer
v Reconnection to relationship with nature
v Reconnection to others and community
v Reconnection with the body
v Dissolving alienation from self, others, environment
MAPS MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy Clinical Trials
Michael and Annie Mithoefer, Marcela Ot’alora
Rick Doblin – founder of MAPS.org
Art by Jake Kobrin

10. San Francisco Insight and Integration Center

12. Polaris Insight Center, San Francisco

13. Internal Space and Ability to Look from a Distance
Biographical Processing
v Self disconnected from so-called objective reality
v Psycholytic therapy is possible – defenses are lowered
v Trauma healing through somatic processing, somatic
integration, integration of alienation from self, others,
community, and nature

14. Out of Body Experiences

15. Astral Travel

16. Near Death Experiences

17. Cosmic Consciousness

18. Ego Dissolution Transformational Experiences

19. First 4 described by William James’ Varieties of Religious Experiences

22. veronika@polarisinsight.com
Polaris Insight Center
www.polarisinsight.com