Here he focuses on the long history, within western science, of researchers exploring the effects and effectiveness of different drugs through self-experimentation.

Yoga is a way of life involving attitudinal shifts, postures for flexibility and strength, sensory awareness, breathing exercises and meditation. In part one of this two part program Dr. Eleanor Criswell presents a perspective combining the classical yoga of Patanjali with modern somatic psychology. She demonstrates a basic pranayama breathing exercise, and discusses experiences that [...]

Brian shares that the features of a spiritual emergency and psychospiritual emergence have much in common with what is known as psychosis and are frequently indistinguishable. Indigenous cultures view these experiences as normal and part of the mysteries of being human.

To truly understand our spiritual origins we must look to nature — for our most intimate relationship is with our own biology. Richard Grossinger, PhD, is author of Planet Medicine and Embryogenesis. Social and environmental problems, he says, are the inevitable result of our biology. However, consciousness itself is new factor in our biological evolution [...]

At the dawn of modern civilization, says Riane Eisler, humanity shifted from a partnership model of social interaction to a dominator model. In a partnership model men and women treat each other as equals. Ms. Eisler details the archeological findings suggesting that neolithic and Cretan societies had a significantly different social organization from that of [...]

Daniel shares the maps of experience and the stages of insight of Buddhist meditation and practices that enable one to live in the now with more meaning and purpose.

The late Christina Grof describes her own struggle to overcome alcoholism and suggests that the impulse that leads to addictive behavior stems from our yearning for spiritual union. Crises of spiritual opening, she says, may often look like episodes of acute psychosis and are often difficult and even painful. Unlike psychosis, however, such crises can [...]