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The divine spark, a Graham Hancock reader : psychedelics, consciousness, and the birth of civilization, Graham Hancock

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The divine spark

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Graham Hancock

a Graham Hancock reader : psychedelics, consciousness, and the birth of civilization

This anthology is aimed at all those who are interested in the connection between consciousness, psychedelics, and the development of humankind. Bestselling author Graham Hancock has been writing and speaking about this to audience's worldwide, including a controversial TEDx talk on ayahuasca and DMT, which some call the god molecule.Graham Hancock leads the charge in this collection of the latest thinking on consciousness with a particular focus on the use of psychedelics to open up the realm of the supernatural. Leading minds and radical thinkers including Dennis McKenna, Rick Doblin, Alex Grey, Russell Brand, and Rick Strassman illuminate the topic like never before

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; SOVEREIGNTY OVER CONSCIOUSNESS; THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD; TERRA INCOGNITA; ON CONSCIOUSNESS; TO INFINITY AND BEYOND: THE HOLOGRAPHIC NATURE OF MASS; EXPLORING REALITY; A MATTER OF SCALE; THE ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE OF NATURE; THE ENERGY DENSITY OF THE VACUUM; A CONNECTED UNIVERSE; A BLACK WHOLE UNIVERSE; REFLECTIONS ON A REVOLUTION IN PHYSICS; NOTES; THE CONSCIOUSNESS REVOLUTION; WHY RICHARD DAWKINS IS THE BEST ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD; ZERO FUN AND TOO MUCH MENTAL; A CROISSANT CONFLICT; STELLAR CONSCIOUSNESSREFLECTIONS IN A REAR-VIEW MIRROR: SPECULATIONS ON NOVELTY THEORY AND THE END TIMESJUNE 6, 2014; THIS JUST IN . . .; THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED; NOTES; FROM COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS TO CONVERGENCE: PSYCHEDELICS, ENTHEOGENS, AND SPECIES ACTIVATION; EXPANDING THE MIND; THE CREATIVE PROCESS AND ENTHEOGENS; POSTSCRIPT; HOW EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS AND OUR CONNECTION TO SPIRIT MIGHT HELP THE SURVIVAL OF LIFE ON PLANET EARTH; WHISPERING LEAVES: INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION?; References; THREE HUMONGOUS IDEAS AND A DOZEN MERELY BIG ONES OR THE PSYCHEDELIC FUTURE OF THE MIND LITEA short trail guide to the bookidea 1: the new religious era-from ritual to word to experience; idea 2: multistate theory-apps are to devices as mindbody states are to minds; idea 3: designing and inventing new cognitive processes; a dozen merely big ideas; serious research; transcending the medical frontiers: exploring the future of psychedelic drug research; a brief history of time-dilation studies; the new wave of psychedelic drug research; the science of pleasure; creativity and problem solving; esp and psychic phenomena; higher dimensions and nonhuman entity contactTHE STUDY OF DIVINE INTELLIGENCENOTE; PAHNKE'S "GOOD FRIDAY EXPERIMENT": A LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP AND METHODOLOGICAL CRITIQUE; METHODOLOGY OF THE ORIGINAL EXPERIMENT; FINDINGS OF THE ORIGINAL STUDY AND LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP; THE LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP INTERVIEWS: GENERAL OVERVIEW; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; Bibliography of Related Literature; THE SECOND COMING OF PSYCHEDELICS; PREPARATION FOR THE JOURNEY; GETTING READY; SETTING; DOSAGE, ROUTE OF ADMINISTRATION, AND COMBINING DRUGS; SOLO OR GROUP: THE ROLE OF STRUCTURE; THE SITTER; ACCOUTREMENTS; SUPPLEMENTAL TECHNIQUES; TYPES OF TRIPSSpiritual, near-death, and otherworldly experiencesvolunteering to be in a research study; letting go; encountering beings; the bad trip; coming down and reintegrating; getting help; integration; experiencing psychedelics; ayahuasca and the concept of reality: ethnographic, theoretical, and experiential considerations; introduction; the role of ayahuasca among indigenous groups; supernatural entities; new information; altered states of consciousness; mind and matter; by way of conclusion; note; bibliography; communion with the goddess: three weeks of ayahuasca in brazil