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Transpersonal psychology with Dr David Luke: Vital Student Zine #5

My unofficial Vital Study Zine #5 with observations from Vital Psychedelic Training and recent happenings in the space

Mary Jacoob, ‘Constellation 01’ via Gallery 46 Whitechapel

The next stage of human consciousness is calling. Are we brave enough to answer?

Dr David Luke is the most intrepid researcher of the psychedelic renaissance - ‘the real new psychonaut’. Straight out of London but living “on the edge… of Sussex” his inspirational investigations include DMT space exploration, the psychedelic divine feminine, biophilia (tree hugging) and psionic powers – often conducted “in the field”.

David Luke dropped out of lecturing to study shamanism, and returned to Britain with consciousness expanded. Since he’s been at the vanguard of the psychedelic renaissance, consistently leading by example.

Senior lecturer at all the best universities, co-founder of Breaking Convention, and director of the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon at the Institute of Ecotechnics which sounds incredible, he is a global figure in the transpersonal psychology movement. And he spoke to Vital students about it.

In the Zine this week:

Approach: Transpersonal psychology is back

Therapy: Psychedelic mysteries of the feminine

Space: Out in the field with citizen science

Medical: DMT vs Death

Integral: Alchemy for the People

Kool Aid Corner: Your regular round-up of trippy clippings, merry pranks, and psychedelic student life

Air provides an overview of psychedelic use, Fire concerns therapeutic applications, Water covers ‘space holding’ – the art of keeping it together, Earth is where you’ll find medical matters, and Ether discusses integration, the process of bringing psychedelic power into regular life. Click straight through to your pet subject above or browse the whole thing via the Vital Study Zine main page.

See Dr Luke interviewed here plus a bunch more videos I put on this YouTube resource channel.

Next issue: ‘Psychedelic philosophy’ aims to legitimise the culture of consciousness expansion. With Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes