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.

See my varieties of human unconscious in here:
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…