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Masters and Houston - Becoming animals
Identifier
007130
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience – Dr Robert Masters and Dr Jean Houston
for many years S had been a wolf. This wolf with which S identified represented a 'wild, untameable freedom'. The wolf was like himself a 'solitary beast, strong, self-reliant and snarling his defence at the world'
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considering the tiger and dragon that clashed repeatedly in his images, S would 'hazard a guess' that the dragon represents, on one level, his masculinity; the tiger the feminine aspect of his character. The dragon also stands for S's sexuality – a very complex and knowledgeable sexuality'
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He had left behind him the 'blood lust, anger and unrestrained sensuality' of the tiger. The lion was a more mature form, along the same lines of development as the tiger, but older, wiser, and stronger – a creature destined to become wiser still