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CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIESSound Photosynthesis features videos, tapes, CDs, books and more in a wide range of topics, including science, health, spirituality, mind, brain, consciousness, cosmos and more.
A Practical Psychology of the Eternal Mind and Everyday Health In this presentation the psycho-spiritual principles of Eastern and Western Philosophies have been developed into a practical psychology designed for application to prevention programs. The Workshop. The Friday night Lecture is tape A710-90.
About Cancer A brief overview of the psychology, biology, and immunology of cancer, as well as conventional and alternative treatments. Dr. Barrett is an innovative health educator and practitioner who integrates medical science and expressive arts therapy in her unique Psycho Neuro Immunology (PNI) practice at the Marin Clinic of Preventive Medicine and Health Education. Weaving modern medical science with ancient shamanistic healing practices, she focuses on teaching the client new ways of health and self-mastery by learning how to tune into body, mind and spirit with a variety of relaxation, visualization, and healing techniques.
Addiction and Transcendence as Altered States of Consciousness, Part A of Altered States of Consciousness Lecture Series States of consciousness can be compared based upon whether or not awareness/attention is narrowly or broadly focused. Contracted states of consciousness are characteristic of addictions, fixations,and compulsions. Expanded states of consciousness can occur through meditation, yoga, shamanic practices, psychedelic plants and drugs, creative inspiration or spontaneous revelation - and have played a central role in humanity's quest for knowledge and liberation since the most ancient times. In this session, Ralph Metzner explores the parallels and differences between addictive and transcendent states of consciousness.
Akropolis Following the screening of Jerzy Grotowski's film AKROPOLIS, Ramchandra Gandhi, Bob Taxin and Rick Tarnas discuss the human species and its potential capacity to self-destruct.
Altered States 3
Altered States 3: Altered States in Shamanic Healing and Modern Medicine
Altered States 3: Altered States of Consciousness in Tantra and Sacred Sexuality
Altered States 3: The Near-Death Experience as Altered State of Consciousness
Altered States of Consciousness I- Past, Present and Future Charles T. Tart Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Davis, is an internationally noted pioneer in the human potential movement. His seminal work, Altered States of Consciousness, led to his being called "the only worthy successor to William James." His scientific inquiry into humanistic and spiritual questions is reflected in this most recent books, Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential and Open Mind, Discriminating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilities. Ralph Metzner Ph.D., also a pioneer figure in the formation of new paradigms of consciousness, is an alumnus of Oxford and Harvard, an advisor to the President and former Academic Dean of CIIS, and Founding Director of the Green Earth Foundation. He is co-author of Maps of Consciousness and Opening to Inner Light. Stanley Krippner Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at CIIS and Professor of Psychology at the Saybrook Institute. Together they're a dynamic duo absolutely worth enjoying and learning from.
Altered States of Consciousness: Past, Present and Future Charles Tart Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University at Davis, is an internationally noted pioneer in the human potential movement. His seminal work, Altered States of Consciousness, led to his being called "the only worthy successor to William James." His scientific inquiry into humanistic and spiritual questions is reflected in his most recent books, Waking Up: Over-coming the Obstacles to Human Potential and Open Mind, Discriminating: Reflections on Human Potential. Tart orchestrated the weekend discussion with his overview of the nature of "states" : normal, hypnotic, dream, lucid dream, drug induced, meditative, psychic and virtual reality.
Altered States of Consciousness: Maps of Consciousness Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., also a pioneer figure in the formation of new paradigms of consciousness, is an alumnus of Oxford and Harvard, an advisor to the President and former Academic Dean of CIIS, and Founding Director of the Green Earth Foundation. He is co-author w/Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Das) of the Psychedelic Experience, and author of Maps of Consciousness and Opening to Inner Light. These tapes include an exploration of the difference between expanded, transcendent, ecstatic states of consciousness (occurring through meditation, shamanic practices, hallucinations, etc.) and the contracted states of consciousness that can develop in addictions and compulsions (such as alcohol, narcotics and gambling). Links between societal degradation and transcendence and individual degradation and transcendence are defined.
Altered States of Consciousness: Psyche Into Nature Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., distinguished Professor of Psychology at CIIS and Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Institute, has been honored by academic societies worldwide in recognition of his comprehensive research in parapsychology, shamanic studies and transpersonal psychology and for his prolific writings including Personal Mythology, Healing States, and Dreamworking. The premise is that native cultures worldwide use an intricate repertory of inner states elicited both by psychedelic and non-chemical techniques, that suggests a far wider range of human capacities for healing and the extension of the psyche into nature.
Alteres States 3: Dreams and Lucid Dreams as Altered States of Consciousness
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science, part II & Persuasive Percussion: Journey into Sound and Rhythm Keynote speaker Andrew WEIL finishes his talk, "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science: “Applications for Health Care, part II." Reinhard FLATISCHLER and Heidrun HOFFMAN "Persuasive Percussion: Journey into Sound and Rhythm” give a beautiful percussion and dance presentation.
Applications of Shamanic Technologies With a guided journey.
Asking the Great Questions of Life Recorded 6/10, 10/21, and 11/4 of 1994 and unedited. Philosophy is the art of pondering the great questions of life, questions which the mind alone cannot answer, nor the heart cease asking: Why do we suffer? How should we live? What can we hope for? etc. Jacob Needleman, an internationally acclaimed philosopher and author, identifies and develops the basic questions of life which, taken together, circumscribe the whole search for life's meaning and prompt us to examine the very substance of our day-to-day life.
Astrology: Cosmos and Psyche Very clear and concise - a good intro.
Aum: the Symbol of Inclusive Spirituality 3/11/94 Ramchandra explained how the urgently relevant non-dualist, non-exclusive, structure of AUM is available to all.
Biography The grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Ramchandra Gandhi is Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of South Asian and Comparative Philosophy at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Buddha, Krisha & Christ II The follow-up from the first
CIIS COMMENCEMENT '89 Complete proceedings of the commencement including Ram Dass' address introduced by Ralph Metzner.
CIIS Commencement Address 1989 With an introduction by Ralph METZNER. An excellent heart opening reminiscence and sharing of the benefits of sincere self forgiving. BEAUTIFUL, revealing and disarming; a real graduation.
Collective Cultural Perception: Asian & European Views of the Universe
Come to Your Senses Come to Your Senses, produced by The California Institute of Integral Studies, is a unique interactive event giving participants an understanding of critical, easily accessible sensory information which can be used to promote new healthy behaviors. Through exploring the senses of touch, sound, smell, intuition and sight, participants rediscover the body's natural wisdom and intelligence. Health care professionals can rediscover through this process the senses as effective and practical tools for use with patients and themselves. The two keynote speakers are, Andrew WEIL, "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science: Applications for Health Care" and David SOBEL, M.D., "Medical Benefits of the Senses and Pleasure." Other lectures include: Sondra BARRETT "The Healing Journey, A Visual Celebration of Nature and Spirit," Reinhard FLATISCHLER and Heidrun HOFFMAN "Persuasive Percussion," Charlotte SUN "Meditation in Motion," Judyth WEAVER "The Role of the Senses in Healing," Martin L. ROSSMAN M.D. "Window to the Soul: Mental Imagery in Medicine and Healing," Anna HALPRIN "The Kinesthetic Sense as a Healing Art," and others. Please inquire regarding specific titles, reviews and prices.
Come to Your Senses-Window To The Soul: Mental Imagery In Medicine And Healing Come to Your Senses
Come to Your Senses: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science: Appications for Health Care A stunning talk full of clarity, insight and determination--truly inspiring and encouraging! Andrew Weil is Associate Director of the Division of Social Perspectives and Medicine, School of Medicine University of Arizona. He has written, Health and Healing: Understanding Conventional and Alternative Medicine and Natural Health, Natural Medicine: A Comprehensive Manual for Wellness and Self-Care.
Come to Your Senses: Healing and the Auditory Sense Barbara Crowe, RMT-BC, is Director of Music Therapy at Arizona State University, and Executive Director of Rhythm for Life. In her workshop she provides a brief review of auditory neural pathways and psychological effects of sound, followed by interactive exploration of the effects of sound and music on body, mood, healing and disease prevention. This tape is useful for understanding how music effects moods and creates states of mind. Especially informative.
Come to Your Senses: Introduction with Slide Show Dr. Sondra Barrett, Associate Director, Integral Health Studies; Associate Professor; and author of the forthcoming book, Bridging Science and Healing, joins Dr. William Stewart, Medical Director, Program in Medicine and Philosophy, California Pacific Medical Center, in providing an overall introductory perspective on the senses, our awareness of their activity, and recognizing their value in health and healing.
Come to Your Senses: Introduction with Slide Show & The Healing Journey & Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science: Applications for Health Care, part I Dr. Sondra Barrett, Associate Director, Integral Health Studies; Associate Professor; and author of the forthcoming book, Bridging Science and Healing, joins Dr. William Stewart, Medical Director, Program in Medicine and Philosophy, California Pacific Medical Center, in providing an overall introductory perspective on the senses, our awareness of their activity, and recognizing their value in health and healing. This tape opens with GEIST in a musical introduction, William B. STEWART, M.D. “Welcome,” Sondra BARRETT "The Healing Journey, A Visual Celebration of Nature and Spirit, and keynote speaker Andrew WEIL, "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science: Applications for Health Care." TRT 1:50
Come to Your Senses: Medical Benefits of the Senses and Pleasure Dr. Sobel is Regional Director of Patient Education and Health promotion for Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California; Chief of Preventive Medicine; Medical Director at The Institute for the Study of Human knowledge; Co-author of Healthy Pleasures, The Healing Brain, and The People's Book of Medical Tests.
Come to Your Senses: Meditation in Motion Master Sun Da-Jin is former director of the Hangzhou Qu Gong Research Institute in China and currently teaches Daoist Longevity Qi Gong in San Francisco; Charlotte Sun, RN, PhD, is Director of the Integral Health Studies Program, Director of the Daoist Longevity Center in San Francisco, has studied taijiquan and Qi gong since 1973. In this workshop the two leaders teach easy breathing, moving exercises and sitting meditation that are part of Daoist longevity health practices, Qi Gong, developed in ancient China.
Come to Your Senses: The Kinesthetic Sense as a Healing Art Anna Halprin guides participants through various exercises such as blindfolded crawling, walking and dancing to heighten their body-awareness. Before and after the exercises participants draw free-form pictures of themselves--some amazing changes take place! The session ends with a slide show of self-image pictures drawn by participants in extended workshops Anna has conducted. The video really contains the magic of this session--lovely images of spontaneous dancing and the slide show.
Come to Your Senses: The Role of the Senses in Healing Judyth Weaver, PhD, is Somatics Psychology Professor at CIIS, and has been a teacher of taijiquan and sensory awareness for over 20 years.
Creativity and the Self: From Chaos to Poiesis Poiesis is both art-and self-making. We discover who we are through allowing old structures to fall apart. In this workshop we will use the media of painting, movement, poetry and performance to play in the chaos of limited space. Ellen Levine, M.S.W. Ph.D., A.T.R., is a social worker, registered art therapist and registered psychoanalyst. Steve Levine, P.h.D., D.S.SC., C.E.T., is Associate Professor of Social Science at York University in Toronto.
Deep Time, Deep Ecology and Our Life as Gaia Joanna Macy is a Buddhist scholar, teacher and activist, known worldwide for her books and trainings, which provide spiritual resources for creative social change.
Dialogues on Sustainable Futures: Exploring Current Global Environment & Development Issues
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE & FREDERIQUE MARGLIN: Diversity, Community and the Decolonization of Knowledge Dr. Frederique Marglin was a great surprise and her words and her presentation should be viewed by any one interested in anthropology and and particularly women interest in the academic life.She was a perfect compliment to Helena Norberg-Hodge's pictures and introduction to the disasters of eradicating cultural diversity. Her slides of Ladakh draw the viewers into a Tibetan high altitude science of mind.
Ecopsychology and the Endangered Arts A lecture by Theodore Roszak, a noted author and founding member of the Ecopsychology group in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Christopher Castle, a visual artist and accomplished composer whose music for the ecological ballet Anima Mundi was performed recently at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. Roszak and Castle address a movement called the "re-enchantment of the art," an effort to salvage artistic values that will help us to hear the voice of the Earth calling out through our own troubled souls.
Egyptian Shamanism As A Way Of Knowledge Nicki Scully is a ceremonial teacher and healer dedicated to planetary healing through personal transformation. She is author of The Golden Cauldron and Shamanic Journeys on the Path of Wisdom.
Embodiment and Embeddedness in Ecofeminism One of three speakers in the "Ecofeminism and the Ecological World View" lecture series, Charlene Spretnak addresses modern patriarchal culture's denial of the subtle embeddedness of humans as bodies in the dynamics of the earth community and cosmos, and creative alternatives to such an orientation.
Encounters with the Mother As part of the Renaissance of the Sacred Feminine lecture series, Minou Alexander discusses how encounters with the divine as Mother can be an embodying experience, an experiencing of our deepest natures. Having lived in Auroville, India, a community envisioned by the Mother to be in line with the yoga of Sri Aurobindo, Minou shares what her relationship with the Mother has meant to her and its effects on her therapeutic stance.
Evoking the Face of the Divine Mother As part of the Renaissance of the Sacred Feminine lecture series, Edie Hartshorne, Karen Peoples, Ph.D., and Ruth Anderson, Ph.D. respond to the cry of the feminine face of God, celebrating and evoking Her luminous Mystery through stories, images, poetry , music and chanting.
Expressive Arts: Recovering The Forgotten Language A panel presentation with four of the faculty of CIIS Expressive Arts Certificate Program discussing the extraordinary power of the arts to facilitate expression, growth and healing. Jack S. Weller will introduce the dynamic new field of the Expressive Arts and the impassioned coalition of artists and therapists that are moving to reawaken the artist within. Kate Donohue will introduce the arts as a means of stimulating creativity. Diane Berman will show the powerful connections between the expressive arts, ritual and myth. Sanjen Miedzinski will briefly introduce her work with Imagery-In-Movement, a particularly powerful expressive arts method, and show a slide-show of client work.
First Anbnual Haridas Chaudri. Lecture Series. CIIS.Compilation of “five indian Sages”, “towards a nonviolent typology of religions” and “AUM: The symbo; of inclusive spirituality”.
Five Indian Sages As a tribute to Haridas Chaudhuri, Founder of the California Institute of Integral Studies, Dr. Gandhi presents a survey of the insights of five of India's spiritual leaders: Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Sri Vivekananda, Ramana Maraharshi, Mahottara Yatri, and Sri Aurobindo.
Global Process Work This talk presented a theory based on Arnold Mindell's dreambody work related to personal and organizational transformation. The insights of this theory are drawn from depth psychology and process studies. The community present raised issues of dire concern relative to environmental terrorism, environmental impacts of war, the double standard of U.S. Foreign Policy, and in conclusion an environmental list for a sustainable world was formulated. Questions of extreme importance in striving for peace, social justice, human survival, and positive directions in attempting to actualize these goals came up during the talk.
Healing and the Auditory Sense Barbara Crowe, RMT-BC, is Director of Music Therapy at Arizona State University, and Executive Director of Rhythm for Life. In her workshop she provides a brief review of auditory neural pathways and psychological effects of sound, followed by interactive exploration of the effects of sound and music on body, mood, healing and disease prevention. This tape is useful for understanding how music effects moods and creates states of mind. Especially informative.
Healing Initiations in the Shamanic Mysteries (8/3/90) The healing underworld is evoked, with a discussion of the role of shamanic allies (totemic animals and deities) and the creative inner forces they symbolize.
Honoring the Earth An exploration of the sources of spiritual inspiration in ancient and modern stories that tell with humor and warmth of a balanced and harmonious relationship to the earth.
Integrated Medicine Dr. Haas presents his unique view of Western and Eastern Medicine, nutrition, lifestyle management and healing modalities. He also discusses basic guidelines from his new book Staying Healthy with Nutrition, The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Celestial Arts).
Japanese Brush Mind A noted calligrapher, painter, poet and translator, he is author of Brush Mind and Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, a U.N. organization. In this workshop, see the wielding of the biggest sumi brush in the world, poetry in motion.
Journeys Through Menopause: A Rite of Passage For Women Christine Downing is professor of Emeritus of Religious Studies at San Diego State University, and a former core faculty member of the California School of Professional Studies. She has also taught at the C.J. Jung Institute in Zurich, and at the Pacific Graduate School. A charming women and a heartening talk.
Kundalini Awakenings, Spiritual Emergencies and Psychotic Experiences, Part D of Altered States of Consciousness Lecture Series According to Yoga texts certain specific states of consciousness occur during kundalini awakening; similar states are described in cross-cultural mystical literature. Recognizing these states can help to identify the the kundalini awakening and its accompanying energetic phenomena in modern clients. When understood and integrated, the kundalini awakening can lead to transcendent experiences and psychospiritual transformation.
Light in the Heart After studying and teaching in Estonia and Russia, Olga Luchakova , M.D., Ph.D. and Igor Kungurtsev, M.D., join the CIIS lecture series to introduce Heyschasm, a contemplative mystical tradition within Christianity which focuses not on the Fundamentalist teachings of guilt and suffering, but on sacred joy, the mind-body connection, love oriented morality, and experiences of light and ego transcendence.
Loba Diana Di Prima began writing LOBA in l971, and published the first volume (parts 1-8) in l978. Since then, another 140 pages have been added to this poem, which is perhaps the first full feminine epic in the present historical era, ranging as it does through the consciousness of beast, woman, goddess, and landscape. Adrienne Rich called LOBA "a great geography of the female imagination." A work in progress.
Maps of Consciousness Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., also a pioneer figure in the formation of new paradigms of consciousness, is an alumnus of Oxford and Harvard, an advisor to the President and former Academic Dean of CIIS, and Founding Director of the Green Earth Foundation. He is co-author w/Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Das) of the Psychedelic Experience, and author of Maps of Consciousness and Opening to Inner Light. These tapes include an exploration of the difference between expanded, transcendent, ecstatic states of consciousness (occurring through meditation, shamanic practices, hallucinations, etc.) and the contracted states of consciousness that can develop in addictions and compulsions (such as alcohol, narcotics and gambling). Links between societal degradation and transcendence and individual degradation and transcendence are defined.
Medical Benefits of the Senses and Pleasure & Window to the Soul: Mental Imagery in Medicine and Healing part I Dr. Sobel is Regional Director of Patient Education and Health promotion for Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California; Chief of Preventive Medicine; Medical Director at The Institute for the Study of Human knowledge; Co-author of Healthy Pleasures, The Healing Brain, and The People's Book of Medical Tests. This tape contains David SOBEL, M.D. “ Medical Benefits of the Senses and Pleasure” , Martin L. ROSSMAN M.D. "Window to the Soul: Mental Imagery in Medicine and Healing" part I
Mental Imagery in Medicine and Healing II & The Kinesthetic Sense as a Healing Art part I Martin L. ROSSMAN M.D. "Window to the Soul: Mental Imagery in Medicine and Healing" part II, a musical interlude by GEIST and the beginning of ANNA HALPRIN "The Kinesthetic Sense as a Healing Art" part IAnna Halprin guides participants through various exercises such as blindfolded crawling, walking and dancing to heighten their body-awareness. Before and after the exercises participants draw free-form pictures of themselves--some amazing changes take place! The session ends with a slide show of self-image pictures drawn by participants in extended workshops Anna has conducted. The video really contains the magic of this session--lovely images of spontaneous dancing and the slide show.
Modern Indian Spirituality (Entire Set) The grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi speaks. Ramchandra Gandhi, Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of South Asian and Comparative Philosophy at the California Institute of Integral Studies, explores in this set of eight public lectures the significance of the lives, thought, and realization of a group of modern Indian spiritual teachers. The impact of these teachers during the last one hundred years on India and other parts of the world has been profound, creating a legacy which is likely to play a decisive role in the struggle for survival of life and civilization on earth in the critical years ahead.
Modern Indian Spirituality: On Mahatma Gandhi Ramchandra shares an intimate and personal reminiscence of his grandfather & lectures about the significance of the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Ramchandra shares an intimate and personal reminiscence of his grandfather & lectures about the significance of the life of Mahatma Gandhi.
Modern Indian Spirituality: Sri Aurobindo, and The Mother, Mira, Sri J. Krishnamurti Ramu lectures about the significance of the lives of Sri Aurobindo, and The Mother, Mira, Sri J. Krishnamurti.
Modern Indian Spirituality: Sri J. Krishnamurti Ramu lectures about the significance of the life of Sri J. Krishnamurti.
Modern Indian Spirituality: Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Ramana Maharshi & Alagamma Ramu lectures about the significance of the lives of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Ramana Maharshi & Alagamma.
Money & the Meaning of Life Jacob Needleman, internationally acclaimed philosopher and writer. A professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University, he is the author of several acclaimed and popular books including The New Religions, Lost Christianity, The Heart of Philosophy, A Sense of the Cosmos, and The Way of the Physician. Noted for his ability to animate the sacred traditions as they answer the questions of contemporary existence, Dr. Needleman restores to philosophy its perennial role of prompting an examination of the very substance of our day-to-day life. A must for everyone.
Morphic Resonance and the Collective Unconscious Proposing that memory is inherent in nature, and that nature is not governed by changeless laws, but rather by habits, Rupert Sheldrake points toward a new and truly evolutionary understanding of ourselves and of the world. Dr. Sheldrake discusses some of the implications of morphic resonance for individual and collective memory, for ritual, and in archetypal patterns which pervade the religious, cultural, economic and political realms.
JOHN WEIR PERRY: Myths, Rituals and Men's Groups, Faustin interviews This conversation is in response to the Men's Movement and the post patriarchal transition pains. An article appeared in Magical Blend Magazine relative to this interview. Richard Daab, Research Editor of Magical Blend Magazine, and Founder of Inner Technologies joined SOUND PHOTOSYNTHESIS in this interview.
On Having No Head Douglas Harding, a noted author and Cambridge professor, together with David Lang, present the elements of the exploration and discovery of your real identity: yourself as you are for others and yourself; age and death; personal relationships; will and surrender; language and the social consensus, body, mind and spirit; stress and the spiritual life; and comparative religious experience.
On The Possession of Consciousness Captivating voice and agreeable concepts. Worth listening to and questioning the assumption that we understand the structure and dynamics of consciousness, Charles Ponce will explore the manner in which we possess consciousness and it possess us. He proposes that what we think of as consciousness is actually the very thing that limits our expeience of consciousness.
Planetary Rhythms in Human Life: Toward A New Understanding of Biography The seven year rhythm is the most important of all the rhythms in human life. It underlies the unfolding of destiny and is fundamental to the human being's development in body, soul and spirit. Robert Powell, author, mathematician and curative eurythmist, lectures on the planetary rhythms as offering a key toward a new understanding of human being's biography. In addition, Powell explores ways to assimilate the new research findings relating to the seven planetary types, and with the help of eurythmy, enter into an experience of the planets as potential healing forces dormant within everyone.
Psychological Astrology: The Oldest Science & Personal Integration Jim Lewis has been the recognized authority on relocation astrology--a specialty that identifies for an individual geographic zones where archetypal potentials are likely to be encountered--since he invented Astro-Carto-Graphy in l975. He has produced the annual Mundane Source Book, Book of Maps and Peter Pan in Midlife. Implicit in the fundamental concepts underlying astrology is the world view from which they were developed--one that was macrocosmic, holistic and cyclic in nature, unlike today's cause-and-effect consensus cosmology. From this integrated world view, astrology's language was perfected to express concisely archetypal realities and relationships, and this language remains an invaluable tool for self-discovery.
Psychological Impact of the Persian Gulf War & Strategies for Empowering Ourselves & Our Communities--AAHP Community raised issues of dire concern relative to environmental terrorism, environmental impacts of war, the double standard of U.S. Foreign Policy, and in conclusion an environmental list for a sustainable world. Questions of extreme importance in striving for peace, social justice, human survival, and positive directions in attempting to actualize these goals.
Public and Private Histories: Connections Emmy award winning author and social thinker Susan Griffin presents a lecture based on her most recent book, A Chorus of Stones. Griffin questions the duality between private and public, and in fusing the two realms creates a radical new vision of both war and gender, in addition to exploring the ways that private and public history are interwoven, mirror, reinforce and become each other. By integrating a wholeness that has been dismembered, Griffin's approach yields unexpected new visions of both society and self.
Ramu at Gaylords
Re-Emergence of the Feminine
Reincarnation and Past-Life Therapy, Part B of Altered States of Consciousness Lecture Series The changing paradigm of our time is moving toward perception of an ongoing core self that extends both before and after this current lifetime. Present challenges are often established in earlier experiences of this continuing self. Through altered states of consciousness it is possible to access distortions from other lifetimes, as well as from pre- and per natal experience and early childhood, and modify them through appropriate therapeutic intervention.
Rekindling the Spirit in Work Howard Schechter, Ph.D., founded the Organizational Development and Transformation M.A. program at CIIS, and has served as a consultant for over 20 years, drawing on Eastern religion, transpersonal psychology, social psychology and the arts. Creative approaches to connect individuals to their deepest motivation and potentials surrounding their work, both for practical well-being in organizations and for personal fulfillment in one's career.
Revelations of the Universe Brian Swimme is a leading theorist of the convergence of scientific and spiritual cosmologies. He illustrates insights on how modern physics discloses a universe that reawakens the mytho-poetic revelation formerly sustained by sacred cosmologies. All this, and he's funny too.
Rite of Kings I: The Self in Psychosis and Spiritual Evolutions, Evening Lecture In his forward to Dr. Perry's The Self in Psychotic Process, C.G. Jung wrote that "the psyche like the body, is an extremely historical structure." These deep structures are revealed in the emotional images that surface in archetypal patterns in what John W. Perry has called "the reconstitutive process of the Self." In this way, the ancient rituals and sacred symbols of archaic peoples are ciphers to psychopathology that psychiatrist, and psychotherapist, may learn to understand the architecture of acute psychosis and the innate movement toward rebirth.
Rite of Kings: The Self in Psychosis and Spiritual Evolutions Workshop The Self is made visible through "affect images," archetypal symbols that arise in times of upheaval of egoconsciousness, whether in acute psychosis or in spiritual unfolding. Dr. Perry is an internationally recognized expert in the field of amplifying these patterns of the Self through a deep mastery of comparative religion, myth and depth psychology. Methods for researching and applying these patterns in clinical work and personal growth are explored and illustrated.
Rite of Kings: The Self in Psychosis and Spiritual Evolutions, Workshop The Self is made visible through "affect images," archetypal symbols that arise in times of upheaval of egoconsciousness, whether in acute psychosis or in spiritual unfolding. Dr. Perry is an internationally recognized expert in the field of amplifying these patterns of the Self through a deep mastery of comparative religion, myth and depth psychology. Methods for researching and applying these patterns in clinical work and personal growth are explored and illustrated.
Science and the Search for Truth Ravi Ravindra, Ph.D., is chair of the Department of Comparative Religion at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, as well as adjunct professor in the Department of Physics. He is a leading lecturer and essayist on science and spirituality. There exists the inevitable conflict between science and spirituality. At the center of this conflict is the scientific ego, specifically whether the scientist is able to adopt a posture of assertion or surrender. Illumination on the age-old dilemma can be found here. The life and work of Albert Einstein serve to illustrate the crucial issues involved.
Senses Recorded at the Come To Your Senses Convention.
Shamanic Technologies in Contemporary Society
Spiritual Dimensions of the Healing Process Author of over 500 articles, several books on parapsychology, mythology, dreams shamanism and healing, director of Dream Laboratory for over 10 years, taught at Somoma State, CIIS and Saybrook Institute. Dr. Krippner’s premise is the spiritual dimensions of healing are ignored by most Western practitioners but are an important part of native, indigenous medicine and counseling. "Spirituality" can be defined as that pattern of behaviors and experiences that come about through awareness of a transcendent dimension of existence. Spiritual behavior and experiences are characterized by certain identifiable values in regard to oneself, others, nature, and whatever one considers to be of ultimate significance. Considerable psychological data now exist which demonstrate the importance of spirituality in healing and can be found in such diverse fields as psychotherapy, longevity, quality of life, recovery from serious illness, and psychoneuroimmunology.
Spiritual Politics: Changing the World From the Inside Out Recorded in audio and video, the video is unedited at this time. An excellent talk by a very personable couple. They write in the program, " Spirit is moving deeply and powerfully through world events today in ways that are seldom heard on the evening news. The hidden causes of world events will be explored by learning to read what the Native Americans call "the Book of Life". Current events such as natural disasters, urban violence, international conflicts and skyrocketing debt will be discussed as the symbolic out-working of inner forces and collective karma and the lessons being offered to us. A new political/economic paradigm will be discussed, which is based on the Ageless Wisdom of East and West, the "golden thread" that connects the hidden teachings of the world's major spiritual traditions. There will be a special focus on how the world can be changed from the inside out--by high-lighting an emerging spiritual politics that evokes the Soul in each citizen, supports their evolutionary step, and upholds the greatest good for the greatest number. Included is a discussion of the non-adversarial whole-systems approaches to social issues.
Sufi Tales and Psychotherapy Recorded 10/22/93 . This lecture, more like a sweet Sufi story telling session, explored the use of therapeutic stories from the Sufi tradition and elsewhere, considered from Ericksonian, Objective Relations and Jungian perspectives, as well as traditional and modern Sufi practice. Michael Baugh, LCSW, is the Clinical Training Director of Clement street Counseling Center, a Psychotherapist, and a Sufi sheik of the Ruhaniat order. People were touched and Michael told many short stories we never heard before this evening.
MICHAEL BAUGH: Sufism & Psychotherapy Sufi and practicing psychotherapist, Michael Baugh shares his integral understanding of these disciplines, through lecture, poetry, song and dance.
The Alchemy of Light The lecture is a collaboration between two noted Russian scientists who are helping people experience various illuminated states of consciousness and a renown American visionary artist. They pursue a scientific and esoteric approach through slides and discussion exploring the cross-cultural spiritual understanding of the light of consciousness and its various stages of evolution as changes in the frequency of light.
The Ancient Mystery Religions: Myth, Cosmos, Psyche - LECTURE Professor Ulansey shows how he was able to discover the central secret of the Mithraic Mysteries, revealing that the Mithraic cult was based on far-reaching cosmological and astrological speculations. Fun to learn that astronomy and astrology were one and the same a while ago.
The Ancient Mystery Religions: Myth, Cosmos, Psyche - WORKSHOP Participants gain an understanding of how the Mystery Religions functioned in antiquity as vehicles of intense personal and cultural transformation, and how they offer powerful models for psychological and spiritual development today. The traditions covered will include the Eleusinian, Orphic, and Pythagorean Mysteries, the Mysteries of Isis and Cybele, and the Gnostic, Hermetic, and Apocalyptic movements. The day-long workshop centered on the characteristic concerns of the Mysteries: initiation and rebirth, the nature of the soul, and the relationship between human beings and the cosmos.
The Body and Spirituality, DISCUSSION This panel features Brother David Steindl-Rast, who is a Benedictine monk, hermit, psychologist, and author. He has lectured on five continents.
The Body and Spirituality, WORKSHOP Benedictine monk, hermit, psychologist, and author. He has lectured on five continents.
The Buddhist Self and the Western Self - Workshop This workshop penetrated the distinctions between one's experiences of the self as they are distilled from conventional reality and the experiences that emerge from Zen practice. How is the Buddhist self different from the non-Buddhist self?, and how are both different in the West from their counterparts in the Asian culture that is the origin of Buddhist practice? How can a deepened understanding, cultivated by teachings and Zen meditation practice, enable us to live within the Western world in which we find ourselves, with its conventional definitions and experiences? This workshop presents through lectures, group discussions and Zen practice an approach to the establishment of self, being, and the world in conventional and absolute ‘realities’.
The Congressman Talks Shop An alumnus returns to talk to the folks back at home base about what is going on in the world and what he as a politician can do to change it...and what we can do as individuals to make a difference.
The Core of Zen: The Ordinary Mind is Tao Dr. Abe is the leading exponent of Zen and Japanese Buddhism in the West. A member of Kyoto School of Philosophy.
The Cosmic and The Comic Scoop has been practicing journalism, satire, and Buddhist meditation for the past 20 years. His broadcasting honors include both the Billboard Magazine and the Columbia Journalism awards for excellence in FM radio programming. Mr. Nisker is also the founder and co-editor of the Buddhist journal The Inquiring Mind and is the the author of the widely acclaimed book Crazy Wisdom. For the past seven years, Nisker has been lecturing and teaching workshops on the subjects of humor, poetry and meditation.
The Cosmic Game: Metaphysical and Spiritual Insights from Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Part C of Altered States of Consciousness Lecture Series In psychedelic sessions, Holotropic Breathwork, spontaneous psychospiritual crises and other situations involving non-ordinary states of consciousness, people often encounter transpersonal experiences which bring profound insights of ontological and cosmological nature, such as the problem of good and evil, and the purpose and meaning of human life. In this presentation, the understanding emerging from the study of such states will be compared with various systems of perennial philosophy and the new paradigms in Western science.
The Council of the Sacred: Deep Ecology, Shamanism and Buddhism Joan Halifax, PH.D., is an anthropologist and well-known teacher with a background in Buddhist practice and years of direct study with shamans and medicine people throughout the world. This tape includes integrated teachings from Native American Shamanic ritual teachings, selected insights of depth psychology, and Mindfulness practices in Buddhism.
The End of the World in the Map of the Heavens Transformations of consciousness and shifts in the evolution of religion are mirrored in millennial movements in the maps of the heavens and their constellations of the stars. The significance of these celestial shifts will be interpreted by two experts through slides and discussion. John Boe, Ph.D., is an award winning essayist and lecturer at the University of California, Davis. David Ulansey, Ph.D., is a visiting professor at U.C., Berkeley, and is currently on leave from Boston University.
The Hindu Goddess: Mata, Earth Mother, and Shakti, Cosmic Force In addition to her work as the Director of the Women's Spirituality Program at CIIS, Elinor Gadon is a cultural historian specializing in the art and culture of India, world religions, mythology and women's culture. As one of the speakers in the Renaissance of the Sacred Feminine lecture series, Gadon addresses the ancient traditions of India, the Hindu Goddess, and the many lessons that Hinduism offers in the exploration of the divine female.
The Inaugural Celebration for The Center for Studies in Science and Spirituality Great event and whopper talks by SWIMME and BERRY. Edie HARTSHORNE performed an unusual and beautiful array of instruments and compositions between speakers.
The Inaugural Celebration For The Center For The Studies in Science and Spirituality Great event and whopper talks. Edie HARTSHORNE performed an unusual and beautiful array of instruments and compositions between speakers.
The Intimacy of Conflict An introduction to the paradoxical and interwoven energies of the human heart and social stragtegies that drive both the most intimate and the most hostile actions. The psychology of war between nations and the image of the enemy and their unexpected connections to love and eros. You have to be tight to fight is the concept Sam and Ofer are arguing about..so put up yer dukes, partner.
The Kinesthetic Sense as a Healing Art part II & Discussion: How Do We Integrate Experience into Clinical Practice? Anna Halprin guides participants through various exercises such as blindfolded crawling, walking and dancing to heighten their body-awareness. Before and after the exercises participants draw free-form pictures of themselves--some amazing changes take place! The session ends with a slide show of self-image pictures drawn by participants in extended workshops Anna has conducted. The video really contains the magic of this session--lovely images of spontaneous dancing and the slide show.The end of Anna HALPRIN "The Kinesthetic Sense as a Healing Art" part II, Don Hanlon JOHNSON, Ph.D. “Discussion: How Do We Integrate Experience into Clinical Practice?”. Anna Halprin & Reinhard Flatischler: Closing Ritual
The Neo-Cognitive Approach to the Mind & Contemporary Problems Roger Mills' neo-cognitive approach is a dramatic new understanding of the levels of consciousness. Here he applies this understanding to family and urban crises, learning and motivation, stress reduction and productivity, drug abuse and community mental health. The Lecture. The Saturday Workshop is on audio tape A711-90.
The New Nutrition For The Whole Person Andrew does it again! A healthy amusing political statement. Dr. Weil introduces a new science of nutrition that examines what we select and assimilate for optimal development/growth as whole humans.
The Origins of the Christ Myth
The Passion Of The Western Mind An excellent encapsulating of the book of the same title. This is a unique piece.
The Path of the Warrior as Healer Recorded Nov., 5, 1993 at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Nicki Scully is a ceremonial teacher and healer dedicated to planetary healing through personal transformation.
The Quabalistic Mysteries: Journey to the Soul
The Role of the Senses in Healing Judyth Weaver, PhD, is Somatics Psychology Professor at CIIS, and has been a teacher of taijiquan and sensory awareness for over 20 years.
The Self in Jung and Zen 2/8/91
The Straw that Healed the Camel's Back Alida is Director of the Dramatherapy Program at the University of Hertsfordshire School of Art and Design in England. In this talk she focuses on the use of story telling in drama therapy.
The Universe Story: Dialogue for the Center for Science and Spirituality 2/2/90 A sound, dynamic talk--excellent follow-up to the Inaugural Celebration. At this rate, things for the new Center for Science and Spirituality at CIIS are off to a great start!
The Voice of the Earth: Discovery of the Ecological Unconsciousness Keynote speaker Theodore Roszak was introduced by the President of California Institute of Integral Studies, Robert McDermott at the Change, Challenge and Creativity in Psychotherapy and the Healing Arts Symposium, May 22, 1993. Roszak introduced a whole new theory under the name "ecopsychology" which posits that madness and sanity must be redefined in the context of environmental concerns. Author of Creating a Counter Culture and Where the Wasteland Ends, Roszak delves into mysticism, religion and the purpose of nature to develop this provocative concept. This talk is a good one to listen to more than once.
RALPH METZNER: The Well of Remembrance: Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern Europe The audio album supports and has readings from the book by the same title. The book has a forward by Maria Gimbutas and is reviewed on the jacket with high praise by such notables as Sam Keen, Joanna Macy, Stanislav Grof and Brian Swimme. Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and a professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. One of the pioneers in the study of nonordinary states of consciousness, he has written several books, including Maps of Consciousness and Opening to Inner Light. Sound Photosynthesis is proud to present many of the audios and videos that have been produced in conjunction with Dr. Metzner's work over the past two decades.
The World of Archetypal Drama Throughout history, there have been rituals and secret ceremonies that brought the fullness of the sacred back to human experience. In Archetypal Drama, we explore the vast realm of ritual drama as a means of entering the generative ground of profound celebration. Bill Pearlman, M.A., is an educator, professional actor and Jungian oriented drama therapist.
Theosophical World View: Remembering Humanity's Forgotten Truths
Tibetan Mysticism: Death and Dying Participants were comforted, strengthened, and guided in a calm, reassuring way. A functional western interpretation of ancient practices with references to Tibetan & other traditions.
Time: Scientific Fact or Cultural Fiction John Broomfield, PhD, past President and Professor of History & Comparative Studies at CIIS, is an ethno-historian who has written two books on modern India and extensive articles on the impact of the modern West on non-Western peoples. With diverse examples drawn from non-Western cultures, mystical traditions, the new sciences and everyday experiences of time anomalies, he will argue that we need a more flexible and healthy construction of time.
Toward Waking Up:Cultivating Mindfulness Western psychology and Eastern philosophy have long seen ordinary consciousness as a kind of waking sleep, an absorption in our personal and cultural illusions. Charles Tart presents a lecture on how we can awaken from our cultural trance and rediscover our essential selves. Tart addresses the main ideas of G.J. Gurdjieff (one of the first teachers to adapt Eastern spiritual methods to Western culture), adding to them and integrating them with modern, growth psychology. In addition, Tart teaches self-observation and self-remembering as primary meditations for increasing mindfulness, self-understanding and living more effectively in the here-and-now.
Towards a Nonviolent Typology of Religion Most dominant typologies of religion are violent, e.g. "great religions" and other religions "religions of the book" and other religions, "revealed religions" and others. Drawing upon Indian Philosophical ideas, Dr. Gandhi offers his suggestions for a better, nonviolent typology drawing upon Indian philosophical ideas.
Transformational Medicine: Holoenergetic Healing Leonard Laskow M.D., is on the clinical faculty of UCSF; he has been studying and exploring the phenomenon of healing associated with the mobilization and release of energy. He talks about a new transformative paradigm and demonstrates the result of merging scientific advances of modern medicine with the healing arts. A new understanding emerges about the transformative process and the nature of the energies involved in change to enhance the ability to heal oneself and others.
Waking Up In An Endangered World
ANGELES ARRIEN: Walking the Mystical Path with Practical Feet Angeles stalks her talks. Her Basque heritage gives her and the viewer a different slant on the mystical interpretation of life. The video includes the first half of her workshop.
What Difference Does Your World View Make? Michael Murphy is co-founder of Esalen Institute and founder of The Transformation Project. He is author of Golf in the Kingdom, Jacob Atabet, The Psychic Side of Sports and An End to Ordinary History. An invigorating, optimistic, humorous, constructive evening....helps to look at this question with a group of thinkers.
"Why the Buddha Smiled: Integral Education for the 21st Century: A Buddhist Perspective" This is a recording of an outstanding, powerful, amusing talk delivered to the GALA Celebration for the California Institute of Integral Studies Anniversary by Dr. Thurman and must be heard by all Buddhists who care about keeping the divine"open minded" attitude paramount. He is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies in the Department of religion at Columbia University, New York, where he holds the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair and heads the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. In addition to a number of important translations, his published works include Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in Essence of True Eloquence: Reason and Enlightenment in the Central Philosophy of Tibet (1984) and Wisdom and Compassion, the Scared Art of Tibet (co-author). With His Holiness the Dali Lama, he is currently writing The Tibetan Book of Inner Science.
Windows into The Divine
World as Lover, World as Self As part of the Ecofeminism and the Ecological World View lecture series, Joanna Macy helps us to draw on the deep resources that are here for us in feminism, Buddhism and deep ecology - all of which call us to wake up to our being in the world.
Writing For your Life "Each person's life is a story. Perceiving our life as story and learning to tell it are parts of the creative process. Writing allows us to abandon ourselves to the realm of the imagination, trusting that within it, we act in the best interest of the Self. The simple willingness to explore the story asserts the reality of the individual. The creative process of discovering and telling our story--a story that posesses us unmercifully and yet, paradoxically, which we create and recreate--becomes part of the way we construct our lives." Deena Metzger, novelist, poet, playwright, healer, and teacher, counsels people with life-threatening diseases. She also works with people suffering spiritual, creative and emotional crises. Diane Di Prima, Ellen Bass, Joanna Macy, Linda Leonard and Brugh Joy highly recommend this book. The inspiring talk regarding this material was recorded 5/14/93 at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Zen Aesthetics and Global Ethics Unedited.The "emptiness" of the stone garden in Ryoan-ji temple in Kyoto presents a radical example of meditative art, expressing the vastness, particularity, and concreteness of selflessness. How is this beauty of selflessness related to peace and social action? If all things are empty, how do we work for our environment? In this slide-illustrated discussion, Kazuaki Tanahashi will engage the audience in these issues, using his "koans" for a planetary survival."
Zen Practice and Conventional Reality Richard Baker-Roshi is a Zen Master, a Zen practitioner, and Suzuki-roshi's heir. He was co-founder with Suzuki-roshi of the Tassajara Zen Monastery and the Green Gulch Farm. He was Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, Tassajara, and Green Gulch from 1971 until 1983. He is currently Head Teacher of the Dharma Sangha Centers in Crestone, Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and in Europe. Tassajara is the first traditional Zen monastery outside of Asia. Green Gulch is the first Zen community combining monastic practice, community life and cultural practices--teachings, art and architecture from both Asian and Western cultures.
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