“A Multidisciplinary Operator’s Manual of Consciousness” (Chapter 26: Archetypal Visitations and Experiential Ontologies)

OPENING THE GATE OF THE OTHER The phenomenon of contact with archetypal figures or entities during altered states of consciousness should not be dismissed as merely metaphorical. These experiences are ontological in nature—they are real in the sense that they alter the subjective and sometimes objective realities of those who undergo them. Just as dreams,…