Podcast appearances and mentions of Christopher M Bache

LSD & The Mind of the Universe with Chris BacheLivestreaming Thursday, 17 August 2023 at 9:00 AM PST/12:00 PM EST on OMTimes Magazine Facebook, OMTimes Radio & TV Facebook, OMTimesTV Youtube and the Sandie Sedgbeer Facebook Page“There is no way to soften the fact that the story I'm going to share with you here is a radical story that challenges many of our culture's deepest convictions about reality.”So says philosopher of religion Chris Bache about the life-changing, 20-year journey he embarked on in November, 1979 to explore his mind and the mind of the universe as deeply and systematically as possible—with the help of the psychedelic drug LSD.Following protocols established by Stanislav Grof, Bache's 73 high-dose LSD sessions over the course of 20 years drew him into a deepening communion with cosmic consciousness, during which he touched the living intelligence of our universe.—an intelligence that both embraced and crushed him—and demonstrates how direct experience of the divine can change your perspective on core issues in philosophy and religion.Chris Bache joins Sandie this week to discuss his book, LSD & The Mind of the Universe, which has been hailed as a gripping account of an utterly unique and extraordinary hero's journey that opens our minds and hearts to a new vision of our universe and ourselves as inseparable from the ineffable being we have called God.CHRISTOPHER M. BACHE, PH.D., is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. A Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, he is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and on the advisory board for Grof Transpersonal Training and the Grof Foundation. An award-winning teacher and international speaker, he is the author of three books.Connect with Chris at https://chrisbache.com#ChrisBache #SandieSedgbeer #WhatIsGoingOMVisit the What Is Going OM show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/what-is-going-omConnect with Sandie Sedgbeer at https://www.sedgbeer.comSubscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/OMTimesTVLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

Christopher M. Bache, Ph.D. by Andrew Holecek

Christopher M. Bache, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. Chris' passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of nonordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20 year journey with LSD.Chris is a father of 3, a Vajrayana practitioner, and lives in Weaverville, NC.Links to Chris' books and other resources: LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life Chris presenting on reincarnation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlCMfEOmsrY Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness Website: https://chrisbache.com/ Chris' academic publications: https://youngstown.academia.edu/ChristopherMBache Links to my book Autism Wellbeing Plan: How to Get Your Child Healthy:US Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Wellbeing-Plan-Child-Healthy/dp/1916393004UK Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Autism-Wellbeing-Plan-Child-Healthy-ebook/dp/B084GBBDL9My podcast, Autism and Children's Health: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autism-and-childrens-health-lab-testing-diet/id1512380225

In this highly provocative podcast, Christopher Bache discusses his 40-year journey exploring LSD as a practice, and entheogens as an actual path. Twenty years taking 73 high-dose journeys into the nature of mind and reality, and twenty years digesting what he discovered. Chris talks about the difference between spiritual awakening and cosmological exploration during his adventure in consciousness, the promise, the peril, and the pain.  What is the risk of “high-altitude sickness,” and are psychedelics a short-cut to enlightenment? How valid is “chemical mysticism,” and how do you know what you experience is true? What about replicability – would someone else experience the same things over twenty years? Andrew introduces the notion of entheogens as a form of tantra, where body (in this case chemistry) is as important as mind. When the body/mind opens to this degree, what does one do with all the energy that is released, and can that much energy be dangerous? Trungpa Rinpoche said that “LSD is super-samsara.” But can the heightening of samsara be used in an “al-chemical” way to accelerate the transformation into nirvana, bringing unconscious processes into the light of consciousness? Chris bravely shares intimate stories of his 73 sessions, the intense and often painful purification, the revelation, the vision, and the vast potential. Is this modern-day shamanism? Can anybody do this? What is the role of meditation in preparing and stabilizing this kind of journey? Can LSD show you the “species mind,” and even the “mind of the universe”? Is there a universal intelligence guiding things, and a final purpose (teleology) to creation? As a professor of religion, Chris discusses how his sessions showed him a new form of education, where one becomes the object of study. How about the risk of sharing this intimate journey, and the bigger risk of alluring others into it? This conversation with a rare individual, possessed with a penetrating intellect, a generous heart, and disarming humility is one of the richest interviews ever offered on this podcast. Be prepared to have your mind blown open, and your heart expanded to the limits of the inner and outer cosmos.  

The Akashic Field is a cosmic field in which all information and knowledge is interconnected and preserved. Our very reality is anchored in this vast sea of connected information that gives rise to everything―from specks of stardust in the outer cosmos to consciousness itself. In The Immutable Laws of the Akashic Field, Dr. Ervin Laszlo, renowned authority in the fields of new science, consciousness, and spirituality, has written an accessible introduction to the mysteries of the Akashic Field, explaining how leading science supports this ancient intuition of the deep reality of the universe.The Immutable Laws of the Akashic Field also features contributions from other leading voices, including Dr. Maria Sagi, Christopher M. Bache, and Kingsley L. Dennis along with a foreword by Marianne Williamson. This approachable text offers a brilliant introduction to and bold affirmation of one of the most profound wonders of our universe.ERVIN LASZLO, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Laureate of the Luxembourg Peace Prize, the Assisi Mandir of Peace Prize, as well as of the Japan Peace Prize, the Goi Award, has been identified by an international jury convened by OOOM Magazine as the 28th among the world's one hundred most inspiring people. He is the editor of the prestigious periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, founder-president of the international think tank The Club of Budapest, founder-president of The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, and chairperson of The Wisdom Council of the new internet platform People Together. He is the author of over one hundred books translated into 24 languages, including The Wisdom Principles, along with nearly four hundred studies and articles. He lives in the Tuscan hills of the Mediterranean coast of Italy.

I chat to Christopher about his new book on psychedelics.

Professor Christopher M. Bache set out to explore his mind and the mind of the universe on what would become a life-changing journey, with the help of the psychedelic drug LSD. Chris’s 73 high-dose LSD sessions over the course of 20 years drew him into a deepening communion with cosmic consciousness. Pushing the boundaries of theory and practice, Chris’s psychedelic experiences took him beyond self-transformation into collective transformation, beyond the present into the future, revealing spirit and matter in perfect balance. Christopher M. Bache, Ph.D. is a professor in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of nonordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20 year journey with LSD. This is his story, and this is his Passion. PASSIONATE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT • Psychedelic research • Controlled LSD Experiments with 73 high-dose LSD sessions • Altered states of consciousness • What does a LSD session look like? • LSD as an amplifier of consciousness • Detoxification of the body and mind • The death a rebirth process • Spiritual states of consciousness • Ego death • Rebirth • Why are we here? • What is our purpose? • How personal transformation opens into collective transformation • Transcending time and space • Time is not linear in deep nonordinary states of consciousness • The future of the human species • Giving birth to the next form of enlightened species • Coming into a time of great challenges • COVID – a signal of future themes • NDE research • Death is not the end of existence • Surviving the destruction of the body • Birth of the diamond soul • Karma SPREAD THE PASSION HOST: Luisa WEBSITE: https://passionharvest.com/ WATCH THIS INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/dJ_dMUdl5Gc PASSION HARVEST ON SOCIAL YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/PassionHarvest/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/PassionHarvest/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Passionharvest SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/3BogbavOan3FP1r1JXLxmV SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/user-796690230 ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/passion-harvest/id1451566598 LEAVE A PODCAST REVIEW IN I TUNES http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1451566598 CONNECT WITH PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER M. BACHE WEBSITE: https://chrisbache.com/ https://youngstown.academia.edu/ChristopherMBache BOOK: LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven https://www.amazon.com.au/LSD-Mind-Universe-Diamonds-Heaven/dp/1620559706

Watch this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sL17AtT7KxkEpisode shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/11-chris-bacheChristopher M. Bache, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. Chris' passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of nonordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20 year journey with LSD.Chris is a father of 3, a Vajrayana practitioner, and lives in Weaverville, NC.You can contact Chris at chris [at) chrisbache (dot--com]. Links to Chris' books and other resources: LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from HeavenLifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life Chris presenting on reincarnation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlCMfEOmsrYDark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of MindThe Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective ConsciousnessWebsite: https://chrisbache.com/Chris' academic publications: https://youngstown.academia.edu/ChristopherMBacheTopics discussed on this episode: Chris discusses his 20 year journey of exploration of his consciousness during 1979 - 1999.His discovery of Stan Grof's work and how that catalysed his high-dose LSD work.The protocol he used, based on Stan Grof's research.Chris' first book, Lifecycles, which is about reincarnation.Chris gives us an overview of what happens to us when we take low and high doses of LSD. We confront The Shadow - fears, worries, early traumatic experiences all the way back to infancy and the womb.The death-rebirth process.Ego death.The high-dose protocol initially developed for terminally ill cancer patients.CoEx systems and the Perinatal level of consciousness, and how accessing them through LSD can have therapeutic potential.What happens after one dissolves the CoEx systems and Perinatal matrices. The practices that allowed Chris to integrate the his experiences into daily life.The middle and later stages of Chris' journey and how the content of his sessions changed and developed.The Diamond Luminosity.Deep time and the birth of the Future Human.Chris' attitude towards his own death, and the lack of fear associated with it.The reasons Chris decided to stop with his LSD work.The challenge of integrating the entire journey after stopping the sessions. Chris' plans for the future in terms of teaching and producing more work.

Episode 6 features Christopher M. Bache, Chris is an emeritus professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. An emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, he is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and on the advisory board for Grof Transpersonal Training and the Grof Foundation. An award-winning teacher and international speaker, he is the author of a number of books including Life cycles, dark night early dawn, and the book we will be discussing today - LSD and the mind of the universe: diamonds from heaven. In which Chris catalogs his epic journey over 20 years, where he engaged in 73 high dose LSD sessions (working at 500-600mcg) - - - - - LINKS- - - - - https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/LSD-and-the-Mind-of-the-Universe-Audiobook/1644111357?source_code=M2M14DFT1BkSH082015011R&&ipRedirectOverride=true - - - - -SUPPORT THIS PODCAST- - - - - ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thenakedguruexperiencepodcast ► TIP JAR: - - - - - WEBSITE, SOCIAL & OTHER PROJECTS- - - - - ► Website: https://www.thenakedguruexperience.com ► Sharing Circles: https://www.rememebringourself.com ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenakedguruexperience ► Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/672595846495678/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thenakedguruexperience/support

In this episode, Joe speaks with Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Psychiatrist (specializing in the treatment of OCD), and Psychedelics Today Advisory Board member, Dr. Matt Brown. Brown talks about osteopathic medicine and his thoughts on energy: how the principle of osteopathic medicine is that "mind, body, spirit" and the things we interact with contribute to what makes up a person, and by shifting things within each body system (neurological or respiratory, for example), change can be made, just like the way small postural shifts can lead to a decrease in pain or anxiety and how smiling can fool your brain into feeling happier. With bodywork emerging as such a powerful tool and breathwork facilitators learning interventions to help clients work through stuck energy, there is clearly a huge connection between the different energies in our bodies and how they affect us, but how much do we really perceive these shifts, and how do we measure these energies and create usable data out of it all?   They also discuss other new methods of psychedelic healing, like the Integratron, light machines like the Lucia Lucia N°03, and Soren Peterson's sound table, and what it might look like if people used these and other non-drug methods in addition to a small amount of psychedelics- could that take away a lot of people's fear? And they talk about Stan Grof, Dr. Christopher M. Bache's LSD and the Mind of the Universe, Elon Musk's Neuralink, and why people should watch and read more sci-fi. Notable Quotes “We’re talking about the study of consciousness, which I am fully confident we are not going to find out way past my death. But that’s ok, and actually, I find that somewhat exciting, because this is a really hard problem that humanity has been working on forever, and if we can even push the ripple of the movement in a slightly different direction for a positive change, that’s an amazing feat when you think about the totality of the universe and how huge it is and how small we are.” “I think that what we might do, is, over time, try to figure out ways of having very, very specific, reliably repeatable experiences mediated through the combination of [a] psychedelic and some sort of a technology, that neither the drug by itself would cause, nor the technology by itself would cause, but if you combined the two, you could have something. What that would be, I don’t know, but it kind of feels a little bit like Total Recall. And then on the opposite side of that, with more the natural medicines, there’s this constant exploration of like, ‘ok, well, what is this broader universe all about and how is nature interconnected with everything else?’ And so, they’d be used for different purposes. So then when you think about it, when you’re talking about the ‘medicines coming from the earth’ so to speak, vs. like, the synthesized version, it’s like, ‘Do you want the blue pill or the red pill?’” “He [Dr. Christopher M. Bache] does have that eye about him, of people that have gone really, really deep. ...There’s just a thing- I don’t know how to explain it- it’s like a different twinkle in the eye, that you can just see in folks that have seen more than, I don’t know, what we’re supposed to see.” “This is very much a global psychedelic experience going on right now. We are on the biggest trip that we’ve ever had, ever. And this is not going to be fast. ...I’m not sure if we’ve gotten to the point where all the other traumas that we get to be able to be introduced to have all been shown to us yet. I think we’ve gotten some glimpses with that, with the whole George Floyd situation, but I’m not sure what’s still on the horizon before this whole thing ends. And hopefully, just like a psychedelic experience, there’s going to be a dramatic healing and growth that comes out of this. We’ll all find out together, whenever that happens.” Links Website: Drmattbrown.com Meetup.com: Psychedelics and the Future of Psychiatry His past appearance on Psychedelics Today LSD and the Mind of the Universe, by Christopher M. Mache The Integratron Lucia Light Experience Lowpromedia.com (Soren Peterson's sound table) The Way of the Psychonaut Volumes 1 and 2, by Stanislav Grof About Dr. Matt Brown Support the show Patreon Leave us a review on Facebook or iTunes Share us with your friends Join our Facebook group - Psychedelics Today group – Find the others and create community. Navigating Psychedelics  

Christopher M. Bache is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngston State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute for Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute for Noetic Sciences and on teh Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris’ work explores the philosophical implications of non-ordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. He has written four books translated into eight languages: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of teaching and collective fields of consciousness and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20 year journey with LSD. In this conversation, we talk about Chris’ personal experiences with altered states, the cosmology of consciousness, and what we need to do in order to shift the world from ego driven to soul driven.    What You Will Learn:    The difference between psycholytic therapy and psychedelic therapy  The five levels of consciousness: 1. Personal mind; 2. Collective mind, species mind; 3. Archetypal mind; 4. One Mind; 5. Diamond Luminoscity, clear light of absolute reality, dharmakāya  Why death is beautiful and we don’t need to fear it How we might create a new human and a new collective consciousness that transcends the smallness of constructed separation What God is for a post-religious world The integral importance of community and integration with psychedelic work    Resources: LSD and The Mind of The Universe: Diamonds from Heaven 

Philosopher Tim Freke talks with Professor Chris Bache about his revelation after 20 years of high dosage LSD trips as explored in his book 'LSD and The Mind of the Universe'. Tim Freke is a philosopher and author of 35 books, translated into more than 15 languages, including a Sunday Times bestseller and Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Year'. He is one of ‘The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People’ on the 2020 list in Watkins Magazine (# 50). He is the founder of ‘Unividualism’, which combines evolutionary science and deep spirituality to offer a visionary new understanding of the nature of reality and the purpose of life. He leads experiential Deep Awakening retreats internationally. https://timfreke.com Christopher M. Bache is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris’ work explores the philosophical implications of non-ordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. He has written three books translated into six languages: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; and The Living Classroom, an exploration of teaching and collective fields of consciousness. https://youngstown.academia.edu/Chris...

In this episode, Kyle and Joe interview Chris Bache, author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe. Chris went through 73 high dose LSD sessions and talks about his experience in the show. 3 Key Points: Chris went through 73 high dose LSD sessions, but he says that pushing the edge of high dose and high frequency use brought on increasingly intense difficulties. He does not recommend high dose sessions like he did. The mind of the universe is where someone goes when one completely dissolves. In the show, they discuss psychedelic therapy and the debate on whether or not therapists should have to have psychedelic experience to do the therapy. Chris believes that the level of experience a therapist has had will impact the type of support they will be able to give. Support the show Patreon Leave us a review on iTunes Share us with your friends – favorite podcast, etc Join our Facebook group - Psychedelics Today group – Find the others and create community. Navigating Psychedelics Show Notes Psychedelic Interest It was at the time Chris had just finished grad school and was looking where to take his research as a university professor He was introduced to the work of Stan Grof, and his book Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research (Condor Books) He was the professor of Religious Studies, sticking to his traditional life He knew there would come a time for him to share his experiences with a larger audience Chris says he's always been locked into his body and his physical experience He had no background in psychedelic states of consciousness Protocol He said you're always working with a sitter and same context/setting As the dosage increased, he began creating a more intense music playlist Chris thinks music is very important for psychedelic sessions Chris does not recommend working with high doses “When you're working with opening consciousness that radically, music has a tremendous effect, it has an amplifying effect by 5 or 10x than doing it without music” - Chris Chris said he has experienced all the common layers of the psychedelic unconscious that's talked about Consciousness Levels Chris experienced 4 different death/rebirths Chris differentiated 5 levels of the universe The first is at the personal mind, where an ego death happens The second takes places at the collective mind, about species The third level is an archetypal mind, the high subtle mind, moving beyond the species existence The fourth level is causal mind, causal oneness, profound states of non-dual reality The last is Diamond Luminosity, its absolute clarity, pureness Psychedelic Therapy Chris says that there is a certain level of support that one needs to truly let go of themselves and let go to the experience He says that he thinks the level of experience will impact the type of support a therapist will be able to give Subtle Level The mind of the universe is where someone goes when one completely dissolves Pushing the edge of high dose, high frequency use brought on increasingly intense difficulties Chris says he was very secret about his psychedelic use, his students didn't know about it But he said after he had gone deep and touched these different levels of consciousness, his students became alive The deeper he went in his own work, the more it touched the students at a deeper level Potency Chris thinks that LSD is a little cleaner than other psychedelics His basic sense is that psilocybin tends to be less evocative, disruptive Ayahuasca is more disruptive in opening up to deeper levels LSD is the most disruptive in opening people up to really deep levels of consciousness With LSD is was less about his personal experience, and more about the collective unconscious experience Realizations With one of his experiences, he had seen everything in his whole life all at once He then entered into archetypal experiences, the platonic domain beyond the time-space reality The beings he ‘met’ were as large as universes, responsible for creating time and space He went into ‘deep time’, different magnitudes of time experiences in a broader frame of reference (where we are in the history of time, what our future looks like) He reached that diamond luminosity level only 4 times out of all of his LSD sessions “If we keep this up, sooner or later, the totality of this consciousness is going to wake up” - Chris “We are moving toward a collective wake up, it's not a personal experience, it's a collective experience. An evolution of our species.” -Chris If Chris has one tip, is to let go of our fear of death, when we die, we go back home After so many sessions, and not taking the time to stop to integrate, after years, his body was screaming for community, and he felt this deep existential sadness and felt as if he was just waiting to die It took 10 years to integrate his deep exploration, and to finally feel okay and comfortable again in his body suit and in this life The universe is an infinite ocean of possibilities, we will never reach the end “The collective psyche is being cosmically stimulated by the trauma that we are entering into” -Chris Links Articles  LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven Chrisbache.com - future website   About Chris Christopher M. Bache is professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. An award-winning teacher, Chris’ work explores the philosophical implications of non-ordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. Chris has written three books translated into six languages: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; and The Living Classroom, an exploration of teaching and collective fields of consciousness. His new book is Diamonds from Heaven ~ LSD and the Mind of the Universe (2019). Use code PSYTODAY at Onnit for a discount on all products except fitness equipment Get a 30 day free audible trial at audibletrial.com/psychedelicstoday

In this episode my guest is author Christopher M. Bache and we will be discussing his book LSD and the Mind of the Universe.Support the podcast.Music featured in this episode:Audible484soundcloud.com/audible484

My guest this week is Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon who had a near-death experience (NDE) about a decade ago. You may be familiar with Eben's story from his New York Times number one bestselling book, Proof of Heaven.  I found this to be a surprising and thought-provoking discussion about some rather controversial ideas—for example, that memories aren't actually stored in the brain! We discuss his most recent book, Living in a Mindful Universe, which grew from his NDE. Ideas we explored together included: The illness and coma that led up to Eben’s NDE, and the main elements of it The shock of having an NDE after believing in a strictly material view of the universe The relation between formalized religion and the divine presence Eben experienced in his NDE How science undermined Eben’s sense of spirituality The connection between scientific materialism and the denial of free will The importance of quantum physics for the mind-brain question and the study of consciousness The possibility that our brains limit consciousness rather than create it The durability of NDE experiences Cultivating a deeper relationship with consciousness through meditation The shocking proposal that human memories are not stored in the brain The relation between reincarnation and theories of human memory storage Other forms of nonlocal consciousness The proposition that consciousness is fundamental to existence, and inexplicable in purely materialist terms How common NDEs are, yet how rarely they’re talked about Death as liberation of consciousness, rather than a diminution Comparisons among different ways of altering consciousness (meditation, binaural beats, psychedelic drugs) The role of personal experience in shaping our views about consciousness and the afterlife Eben discussed the role of binaural beats in fostering certain wave patterns in the brain and their associated modes of consciousness. Here are links to some of the key people in the history of binaural beats: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove; Robert Monroe. If you're interested in trying a free binaural beats recording, visit Sacred Acoustics. The statistician who led the review of remote viewing was Jessica Utts.  Here's the link to the free 33-Day Journey into the Heart of Consciousness that Eben talked about; he also mentioned the book Dark Night, Early Dawn by Christopher M. Bache (affiliate link). Eben suggested that interested listeners check out the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Division of Perceptual Studies. From the website: "The DOPS is exclusively devoted to the investigation of phenomena that challenge mainstream scientific paradigms regarding the nature of the mind/brain relationship. The researchers at DOPS are particularly interested in studying phenomena related to consciousness clearly functioning beyond the confines of the physical body, as well as phenomena that are directly suggestive of post-mortem survival of consciousness." Click this link for more about N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a psychedelic associated with intense spiritual experiences. It's the active ingredient in ayahuasca. Here are links to Eben's three books (affiliate links): Proof of Heaven (New York Times #1 bestseller) The Map of Heaven  Living in a Mindful Universe (co-written with Karen Newell) Eben Alexander, MD, completed his medical degree at Duke University, and went on to perform over 4000 neurosurgical operations. He was an academic neurosurgeon for over 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He has a passionate interest in physics and cosmology, which you can tell from our discussion. Eben has been a guest on Dr. Oz, Oprah, and many other media programs. He encourages people to be inspired by the power of unconditional love in their daily lives, in their work, and in their communities.

Christopher M. Bache has been a professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University for 35 years as well as an intermittent adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies. From 2000-2002 he was Director of Transformative Learning at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He is an award winning teacher, international speaker, and […] The post The Universe is a Diamond Maker appeared first on Future Primitive Podcasts.

Christopher M. Bache has been a professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University for almost 30 years as well as an intermittent adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies. From 2000-2002 he was Director of Transformative Learning at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He is an award winning teacher, international speaker, […] The post The Cosmic Lovers appeared first on Future Primitive Podcasts.