The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 28 of 125
The order in which the matrices appear
In his experience of hands-on LSD psychotherapy, Grof said, if an individual’s memories of pleasure or pain were traced back through his or her life, they would betray increasingly clear features of their origin in the perinatal realm. Consciously reexperiencing the core memories themselves could help cure physical and mental problems as surely as remembering crucial postnatal trauma. However, full reliving of the core experience (and this was something he stressed) was not always essential. Matrices could become conscious in various symbolic or even philosophic forms and be successfully integrated on this level alone. Finally, in his observation, BPM 2 tended to be the first material from the deep unconscious to be activated by LSD. As a rule of thumb, the order in which the matrices manifested was BPM 2, then BPM 3, then BPM 4—and only last of all BPM 1, the realm of nondual perception.