REMARKS ON THERAPEUTIC RESULTS OF PHARMACEUTICAL AUTOPSYCHOGNOSIA SESSIONS

In the Greek edition of "The Knowledge of the Womb" I consciously omitted to mention the therapeutic results of the Sessions for the 16 cases of Table 1 (see Introduction, p 18).

Since the Greek edition has been in circulation, however, many people have been insisting that, despite my reservations, I am obliged to answer certain questions.

Question 1 Are positive therapeutic results obtained with the Sessions and, if so, what are the relevant statistics?

Answer Yes, positive therapeutic results are obtained with the Sessions. (Positive therapeutic results are those where there is partial or almost complete subsidence of mental disturbance. Negative therapeutic results are those where there is no improvement or where there is a deterioration in mental disturbance.)

The statistics of the therapeutic results of the Sessions for the 16 cases are as follows:

Note: Despite the fact that R6 and R 10's obsessional thoughts of suicide have continued undiminished in quality and intensity till today, these cases have not committed suicide. Both undergo two to three Sessions per year which result in a temporary diminution of the intensity of their mental disturbance.

It must be pointed out that all those who are about to begin Sessions are gripped by a vague and inexplicable fear, as if they are afraid to face their real self. It is because of this fear that many reject the Sessions before, while or even after undergoing them.   During the Sessions this fear may, if the case allows it, escalate to the point where it becomes chaotic terror (§ 35, 36) and is a basic reason for his hindering the progress of his autopsychognosia. Some individuals cut a Session short or stop the Sessions altogether because the terror they experience in them is unbearable.

Another important point is that the progress of the Sessions is contingent upon the revival of rejecting conditions, that is, in order to achieve autopsychognosia a person must pass through the terrible trial of reviving the rejection or rejections of his existence (intea-uterine, hereditary, the rejection of expulsion-birth and so on).

Question 2 Are there criteria which aid the prognosis of positive therapeutic results?

Answer Yes. These criteria are revealed during the Sessions and may even be hinted at in the phase preparatory to the Sessions: they are whether memory traces of intea-uterine acceptance exist in an R. The stronger the memory traces of inter-uterine acceptance which an R retains in his nervous system, the more easily he revives the accepting womb. These memory traces form the foundations on which R can build a new life for himself.

Note: There are some cases whose nervous system retains not even the slightest trace of intea-uterine acceptance (see R6 and R10).

Question 3 After obtaining autopsychognosia, does R feel the need to continue having Sessions, pharmaceutical or otherwise?

Answer It must be stressed that the autopsychognosia R obtains can never be complete as the content of the unconscious seems to be infinite. It can be said, however, that after attaining a certain degree of autopsychognosia, some Rs begin a fresh way of reacting in their everyday life, they are content with themselves and feel no need for any kind of psychotherapy thereafter. Some Rs, on the other hand, feel the need to continue having Sessions, though at a slower pace than before. The pace varies from R to R. As a rule, each new Session brings to light new knowledge of the unconscious. It is worth noting that all those who have continued the Sessions feel that no other kind of psychotherapy could give them the possibility to reach such deep unconscious emotional levels.

Question 4 Are psychedelic drugs addictive? Do they harm the chromosomes? Answer   Since 1960 more than a hundred cases of mine have undergone autopsychognosia sessions with LSD-25, Psilocybine or Ketamine. Not one of these cases has presented addiction. Furthermore, one of the women, who underwent ten Sessions, later gave birth to two children. Today, 1982, the children are aged fifteen and ten. Both are in excellent health and very intelligent. It is interesting to note that the father too had previously undergone fourteen Sessions.

Question 5 What is the bioneurophysiological mechanism responsible for the subsidence of mental disturbance through pharmaceutical autopsychognosia sessions?

Answer Unfortunately, present means and methods of bioneurophysiological research do not give us the possibility of making an objective study of the neuronal mechanisms responsible for the various mental functions and their disturbances. Nevertheless, the need to give some bioneurophysiological interpretation, even if theoretical, of how positive therapeutic results are attained with the Sessions, led me to the following conclusion:

Foetal motor neurons and effectors (striated and non-striated muscular fibres) hypofunction because they are underdeveloped from an anatomical and functional point of view. On the other hand, foetal sensory neurons (limbic and other neurons) are capable of being excited by stimuli.

It is well-known that in the fully developed nervous system, the excitation of sensory neurons by stimuli is transmitted to motor neurons and then to effectors. The excitation of effectors and their subsequent movements result in the equilibration of the stimuli which had excited the nervous system.

In the case of the foetus, however, the process is the following: The excitation of sensory neurons by rejecting womb stimuli is transmitted to immature motor neurons and effectors which react very little or not at all. The result is that the excitation is stored in the nervous system and remains there in a latent state.

The Sessions showed that:

(a) This stored excitation anticipates the moment it will be activated so that it may react - even if belatedly - with the most appropriate kinetic (muscular) activity to the rejecting womb stimuli.

(b) The most appropriate kinetic reaction occurs after expulsion-birth, that is, when the nervous system has developed further or fully from an anatomical and functional point of view.

(c) The most appropriate kinetic reaction is repeated with greater or less frequency in everyday life towards whatever symbolizes the rejecting womb. It is as if the most appropriate kinetic reaction does not satisfy the nervous system because it is not carried out against the real dangerous stimuli, the rejecting womb stimuli.

(d) During the Sessions, when the rejecting womb is reactivated, R, his motor neurons and effectors long since fully developed, now has the chance to react to the rejecting womb stimuli themselves. The most appropriate kinetic reaction during the Sessions is achieved through hyperkinetic activity of all the muscles of the body, including the vocal cords (see § 64). This hyperkinetic activity includes efforts to flee from or to attack the womb. Very frequently the hyperkinetic activity is characterized by painful muscular contractions which are provoked directly by the rejecting womb stimuli. This whole process gives R's nervous system the opportunity of discharging and calming down. How long this calmness lasts varies from R to R.