German-American psychologist, psychotherapist, and researcher (1936–2019) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ralph Metzner (May 18, 1936 – March 14, 2019)[1] 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 (later named Ram Dass). 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.[2]
Metzner was involved in consciousness research, including psychedelics, yoga, meditation and shamanism for over 50 years. He was a co-founder and President of the Green Earth Foundation, a non-profit educational organization devoted to healing and harmonizing the relationship between humans and the Earth.[3] Metzner was featured in the 2006 film Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within, a documentary about rediscovering an enchanted cosmos in the modern world.[4]
He conducted workshops on consciousness transformation and alchemical divination, both nationally and internationally.[5] He was also a poet and singer-songwriter and produced two CDs with Kit Walker: A spoken word CD ("Spirit Soundings," with music by Kit Walker) and one music CD of original songs ("Bardo Blues"). His books include The Well of Remembrance, The Unfolding Self, Green Psychology, and two edited collections on the science and the phenomenology of Ayahuasca and Teonanácatl, and a collection of reports about MDMA experiences. Metzner provided the foreword for Through the Gateway of the Heart: Accounts of Experiences with MDMA and Other Empathogenic Substances.[6]
Metzner, Ralph (2019). Searching for the Philosophers' Stone (paperbacked.). Rochester, VT: Park Street Press. ISBN978-1620557761.
Metzner, Ralph (2017). Overtones and Undercurrents: Spirituality, Reincarnation, and Ancestor Influence in Entheogenic Psychotherapy (paperbacked.). Rochester, VT: Park Street Press. ISBN978-1620556894.
Metzner, Ralph (2017). Ecology of Consciousness: The Alchemy of Personal, Collective, and Planetary Transformation (paperbacked.). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications. ISBN978-1626256194.
Metzner, Ralph (2015). Allies for Awakening: Guidelines for productive and safe experiences with entheogens (paperbacked.). Berkeley, CA: Green Earth Foundation & Regent Press. ISBN978-1587903083.
Metzner, Ralph (2013). The Toad and the Jaguar: A Field Report of Underground Research on a Visionary Medicine: Bufo Alvarius And 5-Methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (paperbacked.). Berkeley, CA: Green Earth Foundation & Regent Press. ISBN978-1587902543.
Metzner, Ralph (2010). Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties (paperbacked.). Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic Press. ISBN978-0-907791-38-6.
Metzner, Ralph (2009). Mind Space Time Stream (paperbacked.). Berkeley, CA: Green Earth Foundation & Regent Press. ISBN978-1-58790-172-0.
Metzner, Ralph (2009). Alchemical Divination (paperbacked.). Berkeley, CA: Green Earth Foundation & Regent Press. ISBN978-1-58790-162-1.
Metzner, Ralph (2008). The Roots of War and Domination (paperbacked.). Berkeley, CA: Green Earth Foundation & Regent Press. ISBN978-1-58790-150-8.
Metzner, Ralph (2008). The Expansion of Consciousness (paperbacked.). Berkeley, CA: Green Earth Foundation & Regent Press. ISBN978-1-58790-147-8.
Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca (paperbacked.). Rochester, VT: Park Street Press. 2006. ISBN1-59477-053-0.
Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanacatl (paperbacked.). Rochester, VT: Park Street Press. 2005. ISBN1-59477-044-1.
Metzner, Ralph (1986) [1986]. Through the Gateway of the Heart, Second Edition - Accounts and Experiences with MDMA and other Empathogenic Substances (paperbacked.). Four Trees Publications. ISBN0936329009.
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