1. see Perry, John Weir, Trials of the Visionary Mind, p. 29, for his classification of three alternative possibilities in the treatment of acute psychoses.  see 12 below.

2. Kingsley, Peter, In the Dark Places of Wisdom. Golden Sufi Centre, California, 1999 and Duckworth & Co. Ltd, UK. September 2001. ISBN 0-71563 1 1-95.

3. Anderson, William, Dante the Maker, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1980, p. 153

4. Prologue to Memories Dreams, Reflections, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1963, p. 18

5. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 181

6. ibid, p. 183

7. ibid. p. 191

8. see the Horizon Research Foundation (originally set up as the International Association of Near Death Studies (UK) in 1987) and based at Southampton General Hospital. Website: www.horizon-research.co.uk.

9. See "Religious Experience and Spirituality Today. " The Alister Hardy Trust, 42 High Street, Watlington, Oxford, 0X49 SPY.

10. see Jeff Levin, God, Faith and Health.

11. report by Patrick Bracken and Philip Thomas in the BMJ, vol. 322, 24th March 2001 — Postpsychiatry: A New Direction for Mental Health.

12. Perry, John Weir, Trials of the Visionary Mind: Spiritual Emergency and the Renewal Process, State University of New York Press, 1999. See also www. global-vision.org/interview/petry.html and his other books including The Heart of History.

13. Grof, Stanislav, preface to a new edition of LSD Psychotherapy, 2000.

14. Bache, Christopher, Dark Night, Early Dawn, State University of New York Press, NY., 2000. p. 74