Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Shrink Rap Radio #386 – An Update on Mind-Expanding Substances with Ralph Metzner PhD


Ralph Metzner Ph.D. is an American psychologist, writer, and researcher (born in Germany), who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), and Andrew Weil. Dr. Metzner is 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.

Dr. Metzner has been involved in consciousness research, including psychedelics, yoga, meditation, and shamanism for over 45 years. He is a co-founder and President of the Green Earth Foundation, a non-profit educational organization devoted to healing and harmonizing the relationship between humans and the Earth. Metzner was featured in the 2006 film Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within, a documentary about rediscovering an enchanted cosmos in the modern world.

His books include Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth (1999), Well of Remembrance: Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern Europe (2001, originally 1994), and The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (2010), among many others.

He was the guest of Dr. David Van Nuys earlier this week on Shrink Rap Radio.

Shrink Rap Radio #386 – An Update on Mind-Expanding Substances with Ralph Metzner PhD

Ralph Metzner

A psychology podcast by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.
copyright 2014: David Van Nuys, Ph.D.
Posted on January 16, 2014

Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., a graduate of Oxford and Harvard, is a recognized pioneer in psychological, philosophical and cross-cultural studies of consciousness and its transformations. He collaborated with Leary and Alpert in classic studies of psychedelics at Harvard University in the 1960s, co-authored The Psychedelic Experience and was editor of The Psychedelic Review. He is a psychotherapist and Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he was also the Academic Dean for ten years in the 1980s. His books include The Unfolding Self, The Well of Remembrance, Green Psychology, The Expansion of Consciousness, Alchemical Divination, and Mind Space and Time Stream. He is the editor of two collections of essays on the pharmacology, anthropology and phenomenology of ayahuasca and of psilocybin mushrooms. He is also the president and co-founder of the Green Earth Foundation, dedicated to healing and harmonizing the relations between humanity and the Earth.

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