Richard Grossinger - Dreamtimes and Thoughtforms: Cosmogenesis from the Big Bang to Octopus and Crow Intelligence to UFOs

For Sean Murphy, Andrew Hasse, Sarah Scheld, Ash McKernan, Jamie Creed, Connie Wagner, Billy McDougall, Brittany Atwater, and the rest of the Mount Desert Psychic Group

DREAMTIMES AND THOUGHTFORMS

Grossinger hurls his mastery of esoteric wisdom, a profound understanding of the cosmos, and his exquisite poetic expression at the reader like the bright light of an asteroid whizzing past Earths orbit. A breathtaking read!

PATRICIA CORI, AUTHOR, SCREENWRITER, AND FORMER HOST OF BEYOND THE MATRIX

We live in a wild cosmos, a multidimensional multiverse teeming with all sorts of intelligences and mysteries. Dreamtimes and Thoughtforms is an invitation into a bigger cosmological story that makes room for all the beauty and paradox we are enveloped in by (in)visible worlds. In these pages, Grossinger performs his trademark meta-integration magicweaving together animal intelligence, UFOs, ghosts, and esoteric cosmologies into a wonderfully wild song of ourselves and the worlds around us, containing multitudes.

SEAN ESBJRN-HARGENS, PH.D., DEAN OF INTEGRAL EDUCATION AT CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SCIENCE AND COEDITOR OF METATHEORY FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE

Dreamtimes and Thoughtforms examines the inner and external landscapes of consciousness. Exploring the primordial universe and/or multiverse, primitive biological life, physics, psi, dreams, philosophy, anthropology, and ancient writings, Grossinger goes beyond surface-level discussions and embraces deep contemplation and open-mindedness. Recognizing that consciousness is the builder of all we experience, the author realizes that one may survey the greater reality more effectively through inner vision than a set of eyes. When looking out to observe the external world, we, in some way, see a reflection of ourselves.

MARK IRELAND, AUTHOR OFSOUL SHIFT

Dreamtimes and Thoughtforms takes forward, with new inputs, the project Alfred Jarry undertook in his Faustroll writings at the end of the nineteenth century. Like Jarry, Grossinger reads science through an esoteric lens and esoteric thinking through the lens of science, thus enriching our sensibilities, unmooring our imaginations. In his own terminology, perhaps Jarry was a preincarnation of Grossinger.

FRED DAGOSTINO, PH.D.,RETIRED PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

From the Big Bang to bacteria to the microbiomes, the Cambrian explosion, and catastrophic events, Richard Grossinger outlines the universe and the limitations of materialistic science in explaining all that is, for there is more to life than math, chemistry, and physics. A great read; highly recommended.

JOHN A. RUSH, PH.D., N.D., AUTHOR OF JESUS, MUSHROOMS, AND THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY

In Dreamtimes and Thoughtforms, the reader will learn about the spiritual concepts that date back to the Big Bang and how they relate to reincarnation, pastlife memories, ghosts, and even to the intelligence of crows and octopuses. This is a sensational investigation into how beliefs and thoughtforms create reality.

DAVID BARRETO, AUTHOR OFSPIRITUAL EVOLUTION IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

Like his masterpiece Deep Pool of Light, the meanings flow from the pages to our souls, creating a new language of the sacred. Richards work is best seen perhaps as the scripture of an expanding cosmos written for a distant age beyond our present vision. Its as though he can observe and celebrate from a distant galaxy our own Milky Way, nucleus to nova, or slide down a cosmic wormhole and document the journey!

ALBERT J. LACHANCE, AUTHOR OF CULTURAL ADDICTION AND COAUTHOR OF THE THIRD COVENANT

When I read Richards words I am uplifted and encouraged to fully envelop my mind in the psychospiritual, metaphysical spaces he makes so accessible. Dreamtimes and Thoughtforms is a profound treatise on the vanguard of how we cognize and ingest the super mundane and come to know the full expression of the living cosmos, all around and within.

JOSHUA REICHMANN, FILMMAKER AND MUSICIAN

Reminds me of a Bob Dylan song.

JOHN FRIEDLANDER, AUTHOR OFRECENTERING SETH

I have had a dreampast the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I wasthere is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I hadbut man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, mans hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called Bottoms Dream because it hath no bottom.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, ACT 4, SCENE 1, LINES 20112

Acknowledgments

My thanks to editors Hazel Avery, Eliza Homick, and Jeanie Levitan and cover designer Aaron Davis for their indispensable contributions to this book. In addition, I want to thank the following people for dialogues that helped me shape the text: Matt McKay, Ron Sieh, Paul Weiss, Chuck Stein, Keith Thompson, Rachel Wolfe, Anthony Peake, Jeff Kripal, Miranda July, Richard Hoagland, Salicrow, Laura Aversano, Dewey Martin, Jonathan Cott, Charles Ponc, Patricia Cori, Luke Lafitte, Meryl Nass, Alexandra Whitney, Peter Levine, Ellias Lonsdale, Shea Rosenberg, and Barbara Karlsen.

Contents

Foreword

By Sophie Strand

We rest our eyes on a photon and it blinks between process and punctuation, wave eternally gnawing at the shoreline and a raindrop prickle of singularity. But even worse, what happens when the photon looks at us? Do we turn particulate or oscillatory? As we observe, we increasingly realize we live in a world that is more verb than noun. We live in a worlding that observes and changes us in return. What happens when we create a double-slit experiment big enough that a plane of people can pass through? What happens when something as miniscule as a virus laces itself so tightly around the globe that we feel our cultural airways narrowing?

We live in uncertain times. We live in the dreaming of Heisenbergs Uncertainty principle itself, unsure whether as humans we are a climactic event or holobionts that pulse with perpetual becoming. The choppier the waters, the more we are drawn to answers that we can stand on like a desert island, isolating ourselves from the chaos that might ultimately be more generative.

Richard Grossinger cares little for answers. It is not often that someone of such poetic sensibility and erudition displays true humility and generosity of imagination. Modern science and politics are dominated by polemics. A position is articulated not by the depth and fertility of its thinking, but by its ability to demolish its opponents. Grossinger inDreamtimes and Thoughtforms offers us a radically different approach. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his famous 1936 essay Crack Up, The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. But in a moment when the rate of cultural learning as aided by technology and connectivity far outpaces the ability of an individual to develop expertise, it might be amended that true intelligence it is the ability to hold a hundred opposing viewpoints in your mind.