Ralph Metzner, psychotherapist and facilitator of shamanistic divination, is probably considered one of the most profound experts of the psychedelic scene and one of its pioneers since the 1960s. Essay I: LSD and the Search for the Philosopher's Stone This essay was given as a commemorative speech for the hundredth birthday of Albert Hofmann. The discoverer of LSD, the author shows in a fascinating historical retrospective from the first advanced civilizations to modern times, belongs to the great tradition of alchemical naturalists who sought a holistic union of spiritual and material truth in their search for the philosopher's stone. Essay II: Expansions of Collective Consciousness The introduction of psychedelic substances into secular culture in the middle of the last century represents a profound upheaval in the collective psyche of humanity. The socio-cultural transformations that resulted can be seen as the collective psyche's response to the unprecedented threats of modern civilization: Nuclear war, environmental degradation, and runaway population growth. Updated and expanded record of the profound transformations of the collective consciousness based on each decade from the end of World War 2 to the present. From the Ecology of Consciousness series. http://www.greenearthfound.org.

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