Richard Grossinger - Dark Pool of Light, Volume Three: The Crisis and Future of Consciousness

2013: Raising the Earth to the Next Vibration

The Bardo of Waking Life

Book of the Cranberry Islands

Book of the Earth and Sky

The Continents

Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity

Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life

Homeopathy: The Great Riddle

The Long Body of the Dream

Migraine Auras: When the Visual World Fails

New Moon

The New York Mets: Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext

The Night Sky: The Science and Anthropology of the Stars and Planets

On the Integration of Nature: Post-9/11 Biopolitical Notes

Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossingers

Planet Medicine: Origins

Planet Medicine: Modalities

The Provinces

The Slag of Creation

Solar Journal: Oecological Sections

The Unfinished Business of Doctor Hermes

Waiting for the Martian Express: Cosmic Visitors, Earth Warriors, Luminous Dreams

The Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century

Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life

Ecology and Consciousness

Into the Temple of Baseball

Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior

Olson-Melville Sourcebook: The Mediterranean

Olson-Melville Sourcebook: The New Found Land

See http://www.richardgrossinger.com/2010/03/books-by-richard-grossinger/ for full list.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
The first volume of this series was catalogued under the following information: Dark pool of light.
p. cm. (Reality and consciousness)
Summary: Explores and compares neuroscientific and philosophical views of reality and human consciousnessProvided by publisher.
eISBN: 978-1-58394-509-4
1. Consciousness. I. Grossinger, Richard, 1944
B808.9.D37 2012
128.2dc23

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For John Friedlander

For Kimmie Hills, Erin Honeycutt, Monique Drinkwater, Layla Verbance, Jake Wartell, Jesse Graham, Zef Maguire, Jed Bickman, Gabe Weiss, and their tribes

Thanks to Hisae Matsuda for her objective and clear-minded editorial oversight and project management; to Kathy Glass for her uncannily observant line-editing; to Paula Morrison for her sentient production and editorial supervision; to Susan Quasha for her design and framing; to Ken DellaPenta for his index; to John Friedlander, John Visvader, David Chamberlain, and Ron Sieh for content feedback.

Looking back over the years, I feel that I have received seven major teachings. Once I got each, in turn, it changed who I was, the nature of my life, and how I proceeded thereafter. The first (ages eight to ten) was the symbolic basis of reality and the role of the unconscious; my teachers were psychiatrists Abraham Fabian and Maurice Friend and my stepmother Bunny Grossinger. The second was writingpatching into the cosmic, cultural flow; my mentors (ages sixteen to eighteen) were Kingsley Ervin (my high-school teacher) and Charles Stein (my classmate). The third was the Western occult and magical thinking (ages eighteen to twenty); my teachers were Carl Jung (by way of his writings) and poet Robert Kelly (who gave me a direct transmission).

The fourth was businesshow to get free of academia and earn a living in the marketplacemy mentors were lobsterfishermen and dealers in Bernard/Bass Harbor, Maine, notably Wendell Seavey and Lester Radcliffe. I was twenty-five and doing ethnographic fieldwork; their lessons didnt take until I was thirty-six and living in Berkeley, California. The catalyst was Charlie Winton, head of Publishers Group West. I was slow to come to the recognition that business could be something other than the New York Jewish male-initiation rituals carried out by my father and stepfather in their offices.

The fifth was daily practice itself; its vehicles were tai chi chuan, meditation, and diet. It took the longest time to internalize and enact (ages thirty-one to forty-eight). My mentors were Andy Shapiro, Paul Pitchford, Polly Gamble, and Richard Strozzi-Heckler. The sixth was the reception and uses of somatic energy: craniosacral therapy plus a second run at Taoist martial arts (ages forty-four to forty-nine)my instructors: Randy Cherner, Amini Peller, John Upledger, Frank Lowen, Peter Ralston, Ron Sieh. The seventh was cultivating a psychic vibration and attuning my chakras to the means and uses of spirit (ages sixty-four to sixty-seven); my guides were the staff and students of the Berkeley Psychic Institute, notably director Javier Thistlethwaite, and then after I left BPI, John Friedlander, Patricia Fox, and Emily Davis.

Each of these teachers played a key role in this book. Muchas Gracias.