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Links - Other Peak State Processes Worldwide
This page contains links to information on:
Peak state processes from a variety of
individuals and organizations;
Evaluated processes;
Un-evaluated processes;
Shamanic states and
processes;
Groups evaluating peak states and related
processes;
Professional or academic
organizations;
Amateur organizations;
Website surveys;
Descriptions of peak states, experiences, and
abilities;
Studies on peak states and peak
experiences;
Unusual spiritual
states;
PSI research;
Gaia;
Problems with peak states and
abilities;
Spiritual emergencies;
Triune brain biology for peak
states;
Popular films and background videos relevant
to peak states.
This page contains all of the peak state processes that we
know of worldwide. If you know of a peak state process that
isn't on the list, please email us at 
(to use
this address, you will have to type it into your email
program's "to" line). Several of the processes are
described in our first textbook, Peak States of Consciousness: Theory and
Applications, Volume 1: Breakthrough Techniques for
Exceptional Quality of Life.
We have another links and book
references page that
contains information on: trauma therapies; regression
and prenatal trauma; regenerative healing; current
approaches for schizophrenia and other specific
diseases; and other unusual healing phenomena.
Evaluated peak state induction
processes
• Using a
simple few step process, The 15 minute Miracle by Jacquelyn
Aldana, www.15minutemiracle.com.
Similar
processes include Lynn Grabhorn's Excuse Me, Your Life
is Waiting (www.lynngrabhorn.com); Laura
Day's The Circle (www.soulfulliving.com); and
Lauren Holmes' Peak Evolution (www.naturality.net) which is
more focused on the business world.
• Using
brain biofeedback, Dr. James Hardt at www.biocybernaut.com.
• Using
music and body postures from Sufi tradition, Adnan Sarhan,
505-384-9879, www.sufifoundation.org
• Robert
Johansson's process at www.riggiomodel.biz, based on
the 'mythoself' process at www.mythoself.com. Developed
using NLP ideas.
• The
Oneness Movement and University in India, using the 'energy
transfer process'. For people's experiences, see
www.onenessmovement.org
(or
www.onenessuniversity.org). We're
still trying to understand what they're doing in terms
of our model. However, two of our colleagues reports
that a reasonable percentage of students have a
beneficial outcome.
Un-evaluated
peak state induction processes
• Partly
evaluated. Using key words, the Ascension process at
www.ishaya.com
•
Unevaluated. The 'assemblage point shift' method at
www.assemblagepointshift.com
•
Unevaluated. The 'power sleep' process at
www.powersleep.org
•
Unevaluated. www.learningstrategies.com.
•
Unevaluated. "Transforming Personality Structure and
Healing Sou Wounds: The Essence Process and the Enneagram"
by Andrew Hahn, Psy.D. and Judith Swack, Ph.D,
www.andrewhahn.com/paper.htm.
•
Unevaluated. Project Renaissance with Win Wenger, Ph.D. For
increased IQ and creativity. www.winwenger.com.
•
Unevaluated. Assemblage point shifting, at
www.assemblagepointcentre.com.
•
Unevaluated. The Metamorphic Technique. The association
page at www.metamorphicassociation.org.uk.
An undirected healing process and a peak state process,
primarily in Europe. In Canada, Sira Beaumayne
www.themotleyloft.com
at
613-267-4439.
•
Unevaluated. The 'Soul Birth into Whole-Beingness' process
by David Cicia at www.blissofpeace.com, with
information articles at www.freedom.blissofpeace.com.
•
Unevaluated. Rueben Feldman-Gonzales MD teaches a 'Unitary
Consciousness' state as part of a larger structure called
Holokinetic Psychology, at www.percepcionunitaria.org/en/.
Shamanism - valid training from skilled teachers, but with
very different orientations and
objectives
• Tom
Brown Jr, Awakening Spirits (a how to book). Training at
The Tracker School, USA, www.trackerschool.com;
• Wes
Gietz, training in Native outdoor survival, spiritual
techniques and ceremony, Canada, www.windwalker.ca
• Michael
Harner, Foundation for Shamanic Studies,
www.shamanism.org; Way of the
Shaman
• Sandra
Ingerman, Soul Retrieval, www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html
• Hank
Wesselman, Spiritwalker, www.sharedwisdom.com
Groups evaluating peak state and related processes (amateur
and professional)
Professional or Academic Evaluation
Groups
•
Positive Psychology Center at the University of
Pennsylvania - founded by Martin Seligman. Excellent
articles, evaluation tests, and other resources at
www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu. The best I
know of in this field.
• The
International Society for Quality of Life Studies a
http://marketing.cob.vt.edu/isqols/
• The
LIfe Quality Enhancement Organization at
www.LQEO.org
• The
Quality of Life Research Centre in Denmark (English
version) www.livskvalitet.org/cms.ashx/English/
• The
Quality of Life Research Center at the Claremont Graduate
University, http://qlrc.cgu.edu/about.htm
Amateur
Evaluation Groups
• Michael
McGrath's site for "reviewing personal development &
self improvement products." His evaluations are focused so
far on the previous generation techniques.
www.angelfire.com/wizard2/release/personaldevelopment.
•
Alexandre Nadeau's site (in French and English) has a free
ebook, What I
learned after having spent 10 years and $45,000 in
self-improvement. Alexandre is
well qualified to talk about this, as he is one of the new
generation of peak state technique developers. Well worth
the reading. www.alexandrenadeau.com.
Surveys
of websites - some with relevant peak states
orientations
•
Ilectric Metasearch lists many websites, some with an
implicit peak states orientation (this is for general
interest only - we do not endorse any of these groups). For
general categories see http://ilectric.com/glance/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/.
For training and eduction organizations see
http://ilectric.com/glance/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/New_Age/Education_and_Training.
Descriptions of Peak States, Experiences and
Abilities
Studies on Peak States and Peak
Experiences
• The
archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences (TASTE)
at www.issc-taste.org Started by
Dr. Charles T. Tart, core faculty at the Institute for
Transpersonal Psychology.
• The
Exceptional Human Experience Network at www.ehe.org founded by
Ms. Rhea White. Includes extensive cases and literature
review.
Unusual Spiritual States
•
Stanislav Grof MD, The Cosmic
Game,
LSD
Psychotherapy,
The
Adventure of Self Discovery
• D. E.
Harding, On Having
No Head (about losing
the ego shell)
• Dr
Raymond Moody MD, The Light
Beyond (on the Near
Death Experience), Coming
Back, and
Reunions
(on
communicating with the dead).
PSI Research
• Dean
Radin, The
Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic
Phenomena. Best book on
the rational, scientific study of psi phenomena in the lab
I could imagine by a researcher at the Institute of Noetic
Sciences.
Gaia
• Tom
Brown, Jr.’s The Tracker School, www.trackerschool.com; Tom Brown
Jr, Grandfather
• Rupert
Sheldrake, The Rebirth
of Nature
• The
Gaia Hypothesis by Lovelock, www.mountainman.com.au/gaia.html
Problems with Peak States and
Abilities
Spiritual Emergencies
• An
extensive links page for spiritual emergency support and
training programs worldwide at www.spiritualemergence.net/pages/related.html.
• Dr.
David Lukoff's 'Spiritual Competency Resource Center'
teaches CE credited courses in the area of spiritual
emergencies and their relationship to meditation, mental
illness, and psychiatric diagnosis. www.spiritual-emergency.com.
• The
Spiritual Emergence Network was renamed the Center for
Psychological and Spiritual Health. They list treatment,
referrals, and descriptions at www.CPSH.org.
•
Canadian Spiritual Emergence Service for people in
spiritual emergencies - treatment, referrals, references
at www.spiritualemergence.net/pages/home.html.
•
Stanislav Grof MD, Spiritual
Emergency
• Yvonne
Kason MD, A Farther
Shore: How near-death and other extraordinary experiences
can change ordinary lives
The Triune Brain Biology of Peak
States
• Elaine
de Beauport, The Three
Faces of Mind
• Tom
Brown Jr., The
Vision
•
Harville Hendrix, Keeping the
Love You Find
• Arthur
Janov, The New
Primal Scream
• Thomas
Lewis M.D., A General
Theory of Love
• Dr.
Paul MacLean, The Triune
Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral
Functions
• Joseph
Chilton Pierce, Evolution’s
End
Popular Films and Background Videos Relevant to Peak
States
- What the
Bleep, 2005. Filmed for a general audience, was quite
popular for a while, introducing concepts in
consciousness work.
- The visionary
DVD club, www.visionarydvdclub.com.
DVD's of conference presenters from various international
conference on: Science and Consciousness, Shamanism,
Sacred Sexuality, Enlightenment, and Altered States. Most
are of the people who first defined the field of
consciousness studies in the 1980s. Dated but useful for
background. The ISPS does not endorse this service or the
DVDs.
- The Spiritual Cinema Circle, a service that sends DVD's through the mail. They are both fiction and non-fiction films. The movies are chosen to "Awaken Your sense of joy and wonder; Inspire love and compassion; evoke a deeper connection with the world around you." The ISPS does not endorse this service or the DVDs.