Connections

I am always fascinated by the human mind.

This morning I was away from home, at my sister’s, reading Stan Grof’s “Realms of the Human Unconscious.”  Particularly, I was contemplating his “COEX systems” theory.  These are “systems of condensed experiences.”  He came up with this theory after guiding thousands of LSD treatments, mostly with psychiatric patients. 

These are related experiences from perinatal, infancy, and throughout an entire life that have an emotional theme.  Although there are positive COEX systems, Grof focuses on those with associated negative emotion, often due to humiliation, guilt, emotional deprivation, or violence of many types.  Grof connects these experiences to certain defense mechanisms. 

The second thoughts that came up for me was my wife’s experiences during guided shamanic journeying.  Her guide felt connections to past ancestors that needed to be severed.  These connections were not serving my wife at this time.  That led to my own journeying to cut unhelpful connections to my past ancestry. 

The third feeling that came up for me was there also must be connections to future beings.  This might even be through various parallel universes (Scientific Heretic!). 

See my varieties of human unconscious in here: 

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-trauma-of-ages-is-healed-by.html

Even further, in this life we are beings that have various connections to people we might see daily, to people we see less frequently, to memories of people dead or long out of contact.  These days we have connections through social media, as well as general media information of many sorts. 

Now this was getting complicated! 

Two questions then came up: 

1-Which connections have the greatest influence on our current unfolding life? 

2-How do we deal with negative influences? 

Personally, for number 2, I have used regularly to semi-regularly, exercise, meditation, shamanic journeying, psychotherapy, acupuncture, massage, and energy work. 

There is new and interesting data on the use of entheogens, such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, ibogaine, dimethyltryptamine, and MDMA, for accelerating psychotherapy through better accessing unconscious information.   

I will sit with further contemplation and possible answers. 

Take this blog as seed planting, both for you and for me. 

Let us see what will unfold…