Ralph Metzner, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. He has authored and coauthored several books, including The Unfolding Self, The Well of Remembrance, Green Psychology, The Roots of War and Domination, Know Your Type, and Sacred Vine of Spirits. Learn more online at www.greenearthfound.org and www.ralphmetznerblog.com.
"Ecology of Consciousness is a fascinating compilation of Ralph
Metzner's seminal writings exploring the inner and outer realms of
human experience. Through his comprehensive and vibrant
contributions, Metzner illuminates with vital insight and
meticulous clarity the myriad paths and implications gleaned from
the world's great myths, spiritual traditions, and contemporary
psychedelic research. It is a uniquely personal expression from one
of the modern era's most gifted and prolific pioneers of human
consciousness, an offering of inestimable value to a time and
culture challenged with survival and struggling to achieve its
personal and collective destiny."
--Charles S. Grob, MD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at
the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of
California, Los Angeles; director of the division of child and
adolescent psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; founding board
member of the Heffter Research Institute; editor of Hallucinogens;
and coeditor of Higher Wisdom
"Ecology of Consciousness is a remarkable anthology revealing Ralph
Metzner's undeniable genius as he portrays the changing states of
awareness, perception, and consciousness through cultural
perspectives, politics, technology, psychedelics, and more. He
illustrates a pathway to develop inner awakening through spiritual
practices and mythological teachings, but most importantly by
illuminating the journey of the human soul. Metzner stands as one
of the great 'thought leaders' of our time. This compendium will be
a treasure for consciousness-seeking generations to come."
--Jamy Faust, MA, and Peter Faust, MAc, coauthors of The
Constellation Approach
"Ecology of Consciousness is an inspiring display of enormous
erudition, by one of our culture's keenest observers of how our
consciousness is integrated with our world and universe. This
superb book is an antidote for the alienation, distrust, and fear
that threaten our future existence as a viable species on Earth.
This book is not only about healing, it is healing. For all our
sakes and that of our descendants, it deserves universal
readership."
--Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind
"A comprehensive synthesis from the life work of one of our true
explorers of consciousness. There is theory, visionary
understanding, and skillful practice to discover here."
--Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
"How we choose to conceptualize consciousness impacts everything
about who we believe we are and how we act in the world. Embracing
a radically empirical perspective, Ralph Metzner guides us through
the distilled wisdom and practice of a lifetime spent in the deep
study of consciousness, articulating ways to work with
consciousness that have profound positive potential at both the
individual and societal levels. As a neuroscientist interested in
the study of consciousness, I find this book to be a deep breath of
fresh air!"
--David Presti, PhD, teaching professor in the department of
molecular and cell biology at the University of California,
Berkeley, and author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience
"Not since Virgil showed Dante around Hell and Purgatory have we
had as gifted a guide as Ralph Metzner help us comprehend and
appreciate the major realms of consciousness. His blend of
erudition, wisdom, common sense, and personal experience makes each
approach he describes (from Alchemy to Buddhism, Agni Yoga through
psychedelics, and more) inviting, understandable, and enlightening.
In addition, the practices he presents to open these many gates
make this not only an illuminating book, but give each of us a way
to investigate, experience, and ultimately decide for ourselves our
own best path or paths. The book fulfills Metzner's intention, 'to
awaken spiritual intelligence and bring about a deeper connection
with our essential nature.'"
--James Fadiman, author of The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide
"Ralph Metzner has been thinking creatively about the mysteries of
human consciousness since the dawn of the psychedelic sixties. This
thought-provoking, cross-cultural anthology covers half a century
of exploration into the human potential and political ramifications
of what can happen when we radically change our minds."
--Don Lattin, author of The Harvard Psychedelic Club
"Ralph Metzner, in Ecology of Consciousness, opens up the pathways
to expanded individual and collective awareness. His amazing work
represents over a half century of sensitivity, practice, and deep
understanding of what it means to be fully human. Metzner explores
the unlimited possibilities of life-path self-actualization and
metaphysical maturity without imposing prescriptions. His work
gives empowerment to individual freedom of choice for personal
consciousness, social justice, and connection with the divine."
--Peter Phillips, PhD, professor of sociology at Sonoma State
University, and coauthor/editor of many of the Project Censored
yearbooks
"Ralph Metzner's Ecology of Consciousness marries the scientific
and the spiritual in a mutually beneficial relationship that gives
birth to an expansion of human consciousness and inspires us to
restore, preserve, and protect life on Earth. He recognizes the
Earth as the Black Goddess, the Generative Mother, who provides the
material substances of science, and the spiritual inspiration at
the heart of mythology, divination, shamanism, and the ritual arts,
present in all cultures since the beginning of time. He applies a
medicine to the Great Wound of Western Civilization--that is,
Post-Inquisition Spiritual Trauma that has stripped us of our
divinity, polluted our imagination, and threatens to lead us down a
path to annihilation. He rescues Nordic mythology from the
ravishments of Nazi interpretation and perversion, makes it
embraceable, and recovers its shamanic origins and natural
uses."
--Luisah Teish, author of Jambalaya, and coauthor of On Holy
Ground
"This work is a masterful presentation of the awareness and
attention necessary to move humanity out of its anthropocentric,
subject-object orientation, toward a holomorphic, embodied way of
knowing. Holomorphic wisdom is embedded in our evolutionary soul,
and with it arises a new consciousness able to create a new
human--Eco sapiens. The book is a primer for inner as well as group
leadership."
--Philip Snow Gang, PhD, author of Rethinking Education, historian,
and founder of The Institute for Educational Studies
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