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Spirutual Emergencies and the So Called Psychedelic Experience

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Spiritual Emergencies and the So Called Psychedelic Experience

Hi, I have never posted here much but I used to find the information in this forum very helpful. I remember coming across a link of the book Be Here Now once and I was very happy to have read it.

I recently came across this author Elias Capriles. Maybe this has been posted here before and I apologize if it is a repost. but I found this book extremely helpful in coming to understand the psychedelic experiences that I have had and that I have struggled to find words for.

Elias Capriles is a Dzogchen Buddhist, a professor and "he also set up and managed “spiritual emergency refuges” (refuges for people undergoing psychosis or psychotomimetic experiences), in which disturbed minds were allowed to go through the natural process into which unwillingly they had initiated themselves"

Page 496 and onward of this book describe the Psychedelic experience very well and the book as a whole will probably be very good for anyone into psychedelics to read. At least it was for me.


http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/humanidades/elicap/en/Main/Bb-bm-bh

I just wanted to share this as it helped me greatly. He also has many other essays that are good reads as well.

Namaste
 
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Thanks for sharing! :)

OMG, I have so many books to read and so much things to do :/ Hopefully I will have time to read all I want next week.
 
Looks really good, I browsed the first few chapters..Sounds really acedemic and difficult to read, but heavy with good information. If you like metaphysical studies, it's worth at least a quick scan.
 
Elías Capriles... lucidly challenges Wilber’s well-known ontogenetic holoarchy model, claiming it is based on a delusion and its ond complicated gradations are only gradations of delusion...
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That is one hell of a claim to make, as Ken Wilber's work is highly acknowledged throughout the integral community, to dismiss it all as delusion seems a bit ignorant to me.
 
malakaix said:
That is one hell of a claim to make, as Ken Wilber's work is highly acknowledged throughout the integral community, to dismiss it all as delusion seems a bit ignorant to me.
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"Elías Capriles... lucidly challenges Wilber’s well-known ontogenetic holoarchy model, claiming it is based on a delusion and its ond complicated gradations are only gradations of delusion..."

To put that into the context of Capriles actual words.

"Some of Wilber's "holoarchies"are gradations of being, which he views as truth itself; however, being is delusion and its gradations are gradations of delusion...."

He is saying being/becoming is based on delusion/ignorance.

The true path is a realization of what is. Not of becoming.



Namaste
 
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