CONTENTS - DEVELOPMENT OF THE PSYCHEDELIC INDIVIDUAL






Title Page

PREFACE vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES xxi

Introduction - Things are not what they Seem -1
INTRODUCTION 1
0.1 THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM 1
0.2 CONTINGENCY 4
0.3 PROSPECTUS 11

Chapter 1. The Literature of Parasensory Experiences - 12
1. THE LITERATURE 12
1.1 PARASENSORY EXPERIENCES 12
1.2 THE COLLECTIVE PRECONSCIOUS 27
1.21 Cognitive Modes of Experiencing 31
1.22 Archetypes of the Collective Preconscious 34
1.3 PSYCHEDELIA 38
1.4 DEVELOPMENT TOWARD SELF ACTUALIZATION 41

Chapter 2. Creativity and Developmental Stage Theory - 48
2 THE ERIKSON-PAIGET-GOWAN THEORY OF PERIODIC DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES 48
2.1 CREATIVITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE THEORY 48
2.2 ESCALATION AND DYSPLASIA 60
2.21 Succession 62
2.22 Discontinuity 64
2.23 Emergence 64
2.24 Differentiation 66
    Fixation 66
    Metamorphosis 66
2.25 Integration ......................... 67
2.3 THE DEVELOPMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CREATIVITY 69
2.31 Creativity as the Outcome of the Proper Functioning of Development 69
2.32 Oedipal Origins: Magic Nightmare or Creative Fantasy 71
2.33 Third Column Characteristics of Creativity 72
2.34 Creativity and Auxiliary Variables 74
2.35 Creativity in Individuals of Less than Perfect Mental Health 76
2.36 Creativity as Evolutionary Development 79
2.4 THE PRECONSCIOUS 80
2.41 Dreams and Creativity 85
2.42 Dreams and Science 86
2.43 A Theory About the Impersonal Collective Preconscious 89
2.44 Summary 95

Chapter 3. Psychedelia as a Developmental Stage - 96
3 THE PSYCHEDELIC STAGE 96
3.1 PSYCHEDELIA AS A DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE: IMPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY 96
3.11 The Psychedelic Experience 96
3.12 The Psychic and the Psychedelic 101
3.13 The Normal and the Psychedelic 104
3.14 Creativity and Psychedelia 106
    Psychedelic Drugs and Creativity 106
    The Role of ESP 107
3.1.5 Stage Characteristics of Psychedelia 110
3.2 NATURAL PSYCHEDELIA 113
3.3 THE STIMULATION OF PSYCHEDELIA: TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 119
3.4 THE MYSTIC EXPERIENCE 127
3.5 THE GENTLING OF THE PRECONSCIOUS 134
 

Chapter 4. Measurement of Self-Actualization and Psychedelia - 140
4 THE MEASUREMENT OF SELF ACTUALIZATION AND PSYCHEDELIA 140
4.1 INTRODUCTION TO THE MEASUREMENT OF HIGHER DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES . 140
4.2 SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE ON MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS INCLUDING THE PERSONAL ORIENTATION             INVENTORY 143
4.21 The Personality Orientation Inventory 143
4.22 Other Measures of Self -Actualization 154
4.3 THE NORTHRIDGE DEVELOPMENTAL SCALE 158
 

Chapter 5. Developmental Dysplasia - 164
5 DEVELOPMENTAL DYSPLASIA 164
5.1 THE EXISTENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF DYSPLASIA ... 164
    Preamble ... .... 164
    Postulates about Dysplasia 166
    Some Possible Exceptions and their Significance . . 168
    In Summary 171
5.2 THE IVY LEAGUE DYSPLASIA STUDY . 172
    The Survey Categories 173
    Statistical Results 182
    Summary 182
5.3 STASIS IN THE HIGHER STAGES 184
5.4 SOME COMMENTS AND SPECULATIONS 185
 

Chapter 6. Developmental Forcing - 187
6 DEVELOPMENTAL FORCING 187
6.1 SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENTAL FORCING: SCHIZOPHRENIA 187
6.2 POSSESSION 193
6.3 HYPNOSIS 198
6.4 PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS 201
6.5 ALPHA WAVE BIOFEEDBACK 209
    The Brain, Its Electrical Activity, Alpha
    Waves and Biofeedback 209
6.6 RELIGIOUS, PENTECOSTAL AND GROUP PEAK EXPERIENCES 214
6.7 CRITIQUE 214
    Meditation compared with Developmental Forcing 215
 

Chapter 7. The Process of Self-Actualization - 218
7 THE PROCESS GOAL OF SELF ACTUALIZATION 218
7.1 SELF ACTUALIZATION: CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS DEVELOPMENT 218
7.11 Self Actualization 218
7.12 Consciousness and its Development 220
    Tendency to Form 220
    Tendency toward altered states ............. 220
    Tendency toward higher integration 221
    Whole, a developmental process 221
7.13 Maslow's Views 221
7.2 THE HIGHEST STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS 224
7.21 Illumination: The Eighth Stage 224
7.22 High Levels of Arrest 233
7.23 Higher Entities 234
7.3 SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHEDELIC FUNCTION 235
7.31 Meditation 235
7.32 Alpha Wave Training and its Implications 237
7.33 Programming the Preconscious 239
7.34 Sensory Deprivation 241
7.35 Other Methods 241
7.4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 242
7.41 The Search for a Compatible Construct 242
7.42 Intimations 246
7.43 Epilogue 248

BIBLIOGRAPHY 253

APPENDIX .(The Northridge Developmental Scale).............................. 275

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