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Disorders
"Schizophrenics often report oceanic feeling of oneness with the universe, but in a magic, delusional way. They describe feeling a loss of boundaries between themselves and others, a belief that leads them to think their thoughts are no longer private. They believe they are able to read the thoughts of others. And instead of viewing people, objects, and concepts as individual things, they often view them as members of larger and larger subclasses, a tendency that seems to be a way of expressing the holographic quality of the reality in which they find themselves." (Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, p 64)
Montague Ullman is the founder of the Dream Laboratory at the Maimonides medical Center in Brooklyn, New York...
"Ullman believes that certain aspects of holographic thinking are even more pronounced in manic-depressives... the manic is deeply involved in it and grandiosely identifies with its infinite potential. "He can't keep up with all the thoughts and ideas that come at him in so overwhelming a way,"states Ullman. "He has to lie, dissemble, and manipulate those about him so as to accommodate to his expansive vista. The end result, of course, is mostly chaos and confusion mixed with occasional outbursts of creativity and success in consensual reality. In turn, the manic becomes depressed after he returns from this surreal vacation and once again faces... everyday life."
In the study of patient experiences with LSD, repeated sessions appear to hold great importance in the practice and theory of psychotherapy... "Rather than being unrelated and random, the experiential content seemed to represent a successive unfolding of deeper and deeper levels of unconscious." (Stanislav Grof)
"It quickly became clear that serial LSD sessions were able to expedite the psychotherapeutic process and shorten the time necessary for the treatment of many disorders... even serious conditions, such as schizophrenia, were cured." (Talbot, p 67)
One common experience within the LSD sessions was the "reliving of what it was like to be in the womb. At first Grof thought these were just imagined experiences, but as the evidence continued to amass he realized that the knowledge of embryology inherent in the descriptions was often far superior to the patients... previous education in the area... Most disconcerting of all were those experiences in which the patient's consciousness appeared to expand beyond the usual boundaries of the ego and explore what it was like to be other living things and even other objects... Patients were also able to tap into the consciousness of their relatives and ancestors... Other experiences included the accessing of racial and collective memories." (Talbot, p 68)
"There did not seem to be any limit to what Grof's LSD subjects could tap into. They seemed capable of knowing what it was like to be every animal, and even plant, on the tree of evolution. They could experience what it was like to be a blood cell, an atom, a thermonuclear process inside the sun, the consciousness of the entire planet, and even the consciousness of the entire cosmos. More than that, they displayed the ability to transcend space and time, and occasionally they related uncannily accurate precognitive information. In an even stranger vein they sometimes encountered nonhuman intelligences during their cerebral travels, discarnate beings, spirit guides from 'higher planes of consciousness,' and other suprahuman entities." (Talbot, p 69)
"It was almost as if LSD provided the human consciousness with access to a kind of infinite subway system, a labyrinth of tunnels and byways that existed in the subterranean reaches of the unconscious, and one that literally connected everything in the universe with everything else." (Talbot, p 70)
