Ralph Metzner

Ralph Metzner

Ralph Metzner Ph.D. (born May 18, 1936, in Germany) is a German psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later named Ram Dass). Dr. Metzner is a psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice-president.

Dr. Metzner has been involved in consciousness research, including psychedelics, Yoga, meditation and Shamanism for over 45 years. He is a co-founder and President of the Green Earth Foundation, a non-profit educational organization devoted to healing and harmonizing the relationship between humans and the Earth, and a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement. Metzner was featured in the 2006 film Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within, a documentary about rediscovering an enchanted cosmos in the modern world.

He has conducted numerous workshops on consciousness transformation and alchemical divination, both nationally and internationally. He is also a poet and singer-songwriter and has produced one CD.

He received his Ph.D in Psychology from Harvard.

Bibliography

• Metzner, Ralph (2010). Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties (paperback ed.). Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic Press. ISBN 978-0-907791-38-6. 
• Metzner, Ralph (2009). Mind Space Time Stream (paperback ed.). Berkeley, CA: Green Earth Foundation & Regent Press. ISBN 978-1-58790-172-0. 
• Metzner, Ralph (2009). Alchemical Divination (paperback ed.). Berkeley, CA: Green Earth Foundation & Regent Press. ISBN 978-1-58790-162-1. 
• Metzner, Ralph (2008). The Roots of War and Domination (paperback ed.). Berkeley, CA: Green Earth Foundation & Regent Press. ISBN 978-1-58790-150-8. 
• Metzner, Ralph (2008). The Expansion of Consciousness (paperback ed.). Berkeley, CA: Green Earth Foundation & Regent Press. ISBN 978-1-58790-147-8. 
• Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca (paperback ed.). Rochester, VT: Park Street Press. 2006. ISBN 1-59477-053-0. 
• Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanacatl (paperback ed.). Rochester, VT: Park Street Press. 2005. ISBN 1-59477-044-1. 
• Green Psychology - Transforming our Relationship to the Earth (paperback ed.). Rochester, VT: Park Street Press. 1999. ISBN 0-89281-798-4. 
• The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (rev. ed. of Opening to Inner Light ed.). Novato, CA: Origin Press. 1998. ISBN 1-57983-000-5. 
• The Well of Remembrance: Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern Europe. Boston: Shambhala. 1994. ISBN 1-57062-028-8. 
• Opening to Inner Light: The Transformation of Human Nature and Consciousness. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher. 1986. ISBN 0-87477-354-7. 
• (1979). Know Your Type: Maps of Identity (Anchor Press; 1st edition) ISBN 0-385-13162-3
• Maps of Consciousness: I Ching, Tantra, Tarot, Alchemy, Astrology, Actualism (paperback ed.). New York: Collier Books. 1971. ISBN 0-02-077400-1. 
• Leary, Timothy; Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert (1963/1992). The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (paperback ed.). New York: Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-1652-6. 

Discography

• 1966 - The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (with Richard Alpert & Timothy Leary) (reissued on CD in 2003 by Folkways)
• 2006 - Bardo Blues - and Other Songs of Liberation (with Kit Walker) Music CD (Green Earth Foundation)
• 2009 - Cognition Factor (2009)