Introduction to the First
Three Articles
The first three essays
sketch a metaphysical framework for holotropic phenomena that provides a way
to understand them scientifically. The framework is an alternative to the
materialist model that prevails in mainstream science. The alternative presented
by these essays is based on classic themes from both Western and Eastern philosophy.
The first essay explains consciousness as a real quality of experience, not
merely a byproduct of matter, nor an independent or transcendent entity. The
second essay critiques the mainstream science picture that reality consists
of material bodies moving through time and space. The third essay details
an alternative scientific portrait that depicts reality as processes of experiential
events, necklaces stringing themselves together from drops of self-creativity.
4. Whitehead, LSD, and Transpersonal Psychology
5. Holotropic Breathwork as Process Psychotherapy