Ralph Metzner

(1936–2019) Psychologist United States

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Ralph Metzner was a psychologist from the United States, best known for The Psychedelic Experience.

Quick Facts About Ralph Metzner

Born: May 18, 1936
Died: March 14, 2019
Nationality: United States
Profession: Psychologist
Notable works: The Psychedelic Experience

About Ralph Metzner

Ralph Metzner was a German-born American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Metzner was a psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice-president.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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“…Some timeless time later, dreamlike images began to emerge, the solar system, the Earth…the last to emerge was the sense of my…

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The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

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“My only reality was a mass of radiant swirling energy of immense proportions that seemed to contain all existence in a condensed…

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The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

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“I lost all contact with the surrounding world, which completely disappeared…The awareness of my everyday existence, my name, my whereabouts and my…

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“The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained…

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