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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
This article will explore a spiritual emergency through a myth or fairy tale that emerged at the same time I had a frightening brush with death. Two days before the accident I had ingested psilocybin mushrooms. Michael Washburn, among other transpersonal theorists, will be used to interpret, amplify and re-frame this potential ‘psychotic episode’ with ‘borderline features’ into something more, perhaps, on the threshold of a shamanic initiation in a liminal state. The mythic sequence in my story anticipates the death-rebirth (perinatal pattern) and evolution of consciousness in the LSD research of Stanislav Grof; an evolution given epic participatory elucidation by Richard Tarnas; and an evolution consummated in the erotic desire for nature found in the panpsychism of Freya Mathews.
Recommended Citation
Lahood, G. (2019). The mushroom, the frog, and the rainbow of desire: A participatory-psychedelic spiritual emergence. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 38(2), 182-206. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2019.38.2.182
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