Discover how to identify and navigate your different states of consciousness for deep healing and greater creativity in the upcoming, live vide course “Understanding and Navigating Your States of Consciousness” with Ralph Metzner…
Decades of pioneering consciousness research have led Ralph Metzner to identify fundamental states of consciousness, each with its own characteristic mindspace and timestream. We need to learn how to navigate these states and apply them with intention to benefit from the opportunities and learn from the challenges. Our conceptions of time, of space, and identity are powerfully affected by these changing states.
There are four daily state changes that are connected to the common sleep and wakefulness cycle. Every day and night, we move effortlessly and automatically through these four distinct states of consciousness: the functional waking state, dreamless sleeping, dreaming sleep, and meditative relaxation. It’s easy to miss how profoundly different these states are and yet we can learn a lot by mindfully attending to and working with these changes.
In addition, we all experience a variety of expansive and concentrative states, in which our awareness of time, space and identity may be distinctly altered. We have expansive states — often associated with psychedelic, artistic and mystical visions — that can be harnessed for healing wisdom and creative insight. We also have states of concentration and focus that we engage for productive activity in our daily life and professional practice. Both the expanded and the concentrative states can also get distorted into negative and unhealthy forms, such as ungrounded mindlessness, or narrow-minded obsessions and addictions. So we need to learn to mindfully navigate through these states and guard against the negatives.
Ralph Metzner, the renowned consciousness researcher, psychotherapist, and inspirational teacher, has dedicated his life to understanding the nuances and varieties of consciousness. From his early psychedelic investigations with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) at Harvard, through his three decades as a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and work with the Green Earth Foundation, Ralph Metzner’s distinguished career has brought a trained psychologist’s perspective to the insights that come from psychedelic and meditative explorations.
In this special 6-part live, interactive video course, he will share insights and practical techniques that you can learn and apply in your own personal and professional life.
In this course you will learn to:
- Recognize and navigate expansive and expanded states of consciousness for healing and creative visioning.
- Navigate and direct concentrative and contracted states for productive functioning in daily life and professional work.
- See how both insight and mindfulness meditation practices can assist us in recognizing and utilizing our various states.
- Recognize over-expanded and over-contracted negative states and use both therapeutic and spiritual practices to find our way through them.
These are tools you will be able to apply throughout your life. Each session includes an in-depth, interactive exercise to help you develop these skills.
During Q&A you will be part of the discussion, able to ask your questions on camera, just like a Skype call. If you happen to miss a live session, you can view a video recording at any time.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the most respected consciousness researchers of our time.
