Metzner, Ralph

Metzner, Ralph. Maps of consciousness I Ching, Tantra, Tarot, alchemy, astrology, actualism. New York London Macmillan Collier-Macmillan, 1971. 160p. 

Metzner, Ralph. Green psychology transforming our relationship to the Earth. Inner Traditions Inti Ltd, 1999. 192p. ISBN 0892817984... 

Metzner, Ralph. 1968. On the evolutionary significance of psychedelic drugs. Main Currents of Modern Thought 25 (l) 20-25. 

Metzner, Ralph. 1994. Addiction and transcendence as altered states of consciousness. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 16 (1) 1-17. 

I ll do my best. Hope you don t already have this information. Before me, I have a copy of The Psychedelic Reader (selections from The Psychedelic Review ), Edited by Gunther M. Weil, Ralph Metzner, and... 

Ralph Metzner, "Subjective Effects of Anticholinergic Hallucinogens" (to be published, Psychedelic Review, 10). 

RALPH METZNER, former editor of the Psychedelic Review, is with the Counseling and Testing Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. 

A manual based on THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner Richard Alpert... 

Ralph Metzner, The Ecstatic Adventure (New York Macmillan, 1968). 

Ralph Metzner adds that many MDMA users have found that this substance constitutes a fine adjunct to a wide variety of spiritual disciplines, often leading the user to see what the practice was all about—and often for the first time. 

Michael Hollingshead, one of the main distributors of perhaps the most significant gram of LSD — labelled "H-00047" — that passed eventually into the systems of Donovan, Paul McCartney, Keith Richard, Paul Krassner, Frank Barron, Huston Smith, Paul Lee, Richard Katz, Pete La Roca, Charlie Mingus, Saul Steinberg, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner, Alan Watts, Jean Houston and perhaps a thousand others. "There is some possibility," he once commented, "that my friends and I have illuminated more people than anyone else in history."... 

This journal, mainly edited by the psychologist Ralph Metzner, promoted the adjective and noun that eventually came to be most closely associated with LSD, mescaline and similar substances. 

Almost no one who has taken a powerful psychedelic has come away unimpressed. Psychologist Ralph Metzner observed over a period of years that people awakened by psychedelics to the myriad possibilities for human consciousness often go on to pursue other ways and methods of increasing awareness. Osmond, writing in the Annals of the New York Society of Medicine, described the awe that is a frequent sustained effect ... 

From left, Bonnie Golightly, Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), Allen Ginsberg, Albert Hofmann and Ralph Metzner gathered for a colloquium entitled "LSD—A Generation Later at the University of California, Santa Cruz in October 1977. More than 4,000 people came to hear Dr. Hofmann s talk. 

Ralph Metzner—he got his Ph.D. He is now running healing work and wholistic therapeutic groups in San Francisco and Berkeley, the total opposite of behaviorism. Ralph accepts that within each person there s a spiritual entity which can be moved if it s once awakened and allowed not only to see but also to be. 

By late I960, Leary had contacted Sandoz for psilocybin to be used for "creativity studies and had established an eight-member board to oversee the Harvard Psilocybin Research Project. The board included Huxley, psychiatrist John Spiegel (who went on to become president of the American Psychiatric Association), David McClelland (Leary s superior), Frank Barron (an associate who has since written much about creativity), Ralph Metzner (later a close Leary colleague), Leary, and two graduate students who had already started a project with mescaline. 

Were it not for Timothy Leaty, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, the terror drug would have been excluded from the Psychedelic Age. Although these three had heard nothing but negative reports about the effects of this compound, undaunted they decided to test the drug on themselves. They discovered that when one observes the rules of "set and "setting, DMT produces a short but ecstatic experience. 

On the Evolutionary Significance of Psychedelics,- Ralph Metzner, Mam Currents m Modern Thoughts (1964)... 

RALPH METZNER, Ph.D., author of Opening to Inner Light... 

Grob, Charles S. 1999. The Psychology of Ayahuasca. In Ayahuasca—Human Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature, ed. Ralph Metzner. New York Thunder s Mouth Press. 

Translation of this essay from the German by Cordelia Ballent and Ralph Metzner. 

Diane Conn Darling, RIck Doblin.and Ralph Metzner... 

Sacred mushroom of visions teonanacatl a sourcebook on the psilocybin mushroom / edited by Ralph Metzner with Diane Conn Darling, p. cm. 

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