Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. The Birth of a New World View Breakthrough in Europe An Unexpected Rosetta Stone 2. Transpersonal Psychology and Archetypal Astrology: The Research of Stanislav Grof and Richard Tarnas Stanislav Grof's Expanded Cartography of the Human Psyche The Perinatal Matrices Richard Tarnas' Archetypal Astrology Tarnas' Correlations with the Perinatal Sequence Several Further Distinctions 3. Issues in Psychedelic Therapy and Self-Exploration Non-specific Amplifiers of Mental Processes The Level of Trust and Support Set and Setting The Dosage, Quality, and Purity of Psychoactive Substances Medical and Psychiatric Contraindications for Holotropic States 4. The Astrological Archetypes Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto 5. The Transit Cycles of Neptune-Neptune, Saturn-Saturn, Pluto-Pluto, and Uranus-Uranus Transits of Neptune-Neptune Transits of Saturn-Saturn Transits of Pluto-Pluto Transits of Uranus-Uranus 6. The Archetypal Pairs Transits of Neptune Sun-Neptune Moon-Neptune Mercury-Neptune Venus-Neptune Mars-Neptune Jupiter-Neptune Transits of Saturn Sun-Saturn Moon-Saturn Mercury-Saturn Venus-Saturn Mars-Saturn Jupiter-Saturn Transits of Pluto Sun-Pluto Moon-Pluto Mercury-Pluto Venus-Pluto Mars-Pluto Jupiter-Pluto Transits of Uranus Sun-Uranus Moon-Uranus Mercury-Uranus Venus-Uranus Mars-Uranus Jupiter-Uranus The Fundamental Alignments Saturn-Neptune Saturn-Pluto Saturn-Uranus Uranus-Pluto Neptune-Pluto Uranus-Neptune The Modifying Alignments Sun-Sun Sun-Moon Sun-Mercury Sun-Venus Sun-Mars Sun-Jupiter Moon-Moon Moon-Mercury Moon-Venus Moon-Mars Moon-Jupiter Mercury-Mercury Mercury-Venus Mercury-Mars Mercury-Jupiter Venus-Venus Venus-Mars Venus-Jupiter Mars-Mars Mars-Jupiter Jupiter-Jupiter 7. Putting It All Together: Scenarios in Self-Exploration 1. A Grieving Elderly Lady Needs Emotional Comfort and Relief 2. An Organizer of Intentional Dance Events Wants to Add an Increased Level of Safety for His Participants 3. Three Spiritual Friends Support Each Other in Healing Sessions with Psilocybin Mushrooms 4. A Member of the Clergy Seeks a Direct Experience of the Numinous Principle 5. A Team of Therapists Conducting Psychedelic Sessions in a Healthcare-Funded Program Consults the Transits of Their Patients 6. A Breathwork Practitioner Looks at the World Transits Before Scheduling a Workshop 7. A Married Couple Considers Sitting for Each Other in Internalized Psychedelic Sessions 8. A Graduate Student Organizes a Psychedelic Healing Session for Himself 9. A Military Veteran Suffering from PTSD Begins a Course of MDMA Psychotherapy 10. A Young Meditator Experiences Kundalini and Spiritual Emergency 11. A Young Woman Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder Wants to Stop Taking Lithium Epilogue Endnotes Bibliography and Suggested Reading Index

About the Author

Renn Butler has had a lifelong interest in the techniques of self-exploration and transformation. Pathways to Wholeness is his first book.