Ralph Metzner (1936–2019)
Author of The Psychedelic Reader: Selected from the Psychedelic Review
About the Author
Ralph Humphrey Guenther Metzner was born in Berlin, Germany on May 18, 1936. He received a degree from Queen's College, Oxford and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1962. While a graduate student at Harvard, he worked with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert on their research exploring therapeutic show more and other uses for LSD, psilocybin, and similar hallucinogens. In 1964, the three collaborated on The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Metzner became a psychotherapist and in 1975 joined the faculty of what was then the California Institute of Asian Studies. He taught there for 31 years and served as academic dean from 1977 to 1989. He took emeritus status in 2006. He wrote numerous books including Maps of Consciousness, The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience, Green Psychology: Transforming Our Relationship to the Earth, and The Expansion of Consciousness. He died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on March 14, 2019 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Ralph Metzner
Maps of consciousness;: I Ching, tantra, tarot, alchemy, astrology, actualism (1972) 86 copies, 1 review
Opening to Inner Light: The Transformation of Human Nature and Consciousness (1988) 56 copies, 1 review
The Toad and the Jaguar a Field Report of Underground Research on a Visionary Medicine: Bufo Alvarius and 5-Methoxy-Dimethyltryptamine (2013) 18 copies
Alchemical Divination: Accessing your spiritual intelligence for healing and guidance (The Ecology of Consciousness) (2009) 15 copies
Ecology of Consciousness: The Alchemy of Personal, Collective, and Planetary Transformation (2017) 12 copies
Mind Space And Time Stream: Understanding and Navigating Your States of Consciousness / Volume 4 of The Ecology of Consciousness (2009) 11 copies
ALLIES for AWAKENING Guidelines for productive and safe experiences with entheogens (2015) 10 copies
Searching for the Philosophers' Stone: Encounters with Mystics, Scientists, and Healers (2019) 9 copies
The Life Cycle of the Human Soul: Incarnation; Conception; Birth; Death; Hereafter; Reincarnation (Ecology of Consciousness) (2011) 4 copies
Overtones and Undercurrents: Spirituality, Reincarnation, and Ancestor Influence in Entheogenic Psychotherapy (2017) 4 copies
Psychedelic Review, Vol. 1 No. 4 1964 — Editor — 2 copies
The Psychedelic Review - Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1963 — Editor — 1 copy
Raum des Geistes - Strom der Zeit: Wie man seine Bewusstseinszustände verstehen und navigieren kann (2012) 1 copy
Die Kröte und der Jaguar 1 copy
Hallucinogenic Drugs and Plants in Psychotherapy and Shamanism [Jarbuch fur Enthnomedizin 1997/98] 1 copy
Associated Works
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (1964) — Author — 686 copies, 5 reviews
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Metzner, Ralph
- Legal name
- Metzner, Ralph Humphrey Guenther
- Birthdate
- 1936-05-18
- Date of death
- 2019-03-14
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Harvard University (PhD - Clinical Psychology)
University of Oxford (BA) - Occupations
- psychotherapist
- Nationality
- Germany (birth)
USA - Birthplace
- Berlin, Germany
- Place of death
- Sonoma, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Sonoma, California, USA
Members
Reviews
“Metzner’s fresh look at the mythology of northern Europe skillfully rescues these grand protean forms from their sad misassociation with the excesses of German fascism. The original power of the story of Odin to save and restore us is presented in a scholarly and thoroughly fascinating way.”
First ed, 9th printing
This book had some interesting moments. I liked learning more about Germanic myths. I took a Histoyof Witchcraft class on college and we read a few of the books the author cited. His thesis that the Earth-centric, matreocentric dellers were pushed out/taken over by the warrior, patriarchy invaders was one we talked about in class and also how the wise women and pagans in general were demonized by the Christians along with their pagan gods.
However, I could have done show more without the author's and his friend's vision quests and his personal philosophy.
I am weeding out my books, so this one will go. show less
This book had some interesting moments. I liked learning more about Germanic myths. I took a Histoyof Witchcraft class on college and we read a few of the books the author cited. His thesis that the Earth-centric, matreocentric dellers were pushed out/taken over by the warrior, patriarchy invaders was one we talked about in class and also how the wise women and pagans in general were demonized by the Christians along with their pagan gods.
However, I could have done show more without the author's and his friend's vision quests and his personal philosophy.
I am weeding out my books, so this one will go. show less
Opening to Inner Light draws on the writings of Eastern and Western mysticism, comparative mythology, literature and poetry, and those of philosophers and teachers in the esotrtic, shamanic, yogic and hermetic traditions. It incorporates the formulations of modern depth psychotherapy, anthropology and transpersonal psychology.Rich in scholarship, symbolic imagery and the personal experience of the author's colleagues, clients and students, as well as related published accounts, Opening to show more Inner Light is a book for all those who have undergone any deep personal change, from a born again religious cenversion to the extended expanded consciousness of spiritual illumination. show less
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Statistics
- Works
- 64
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 841
- Popularity
- #30,399
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 5
- ISBNs
- 69
- Languages
- 6
