I appreciate all your input. I love the Windhorse approach, probably because I have an interest in Buddhism. I'm trying to read one of John Weir Perry's books right now - Trials of the Visionary Mind - but I'm finding it hard going, because the discussions of myth and symbolism are just lost on me. I just want to know what do I do!

My mind tends to work in a linear and logical manner. Poetry, art, music, etc. are largely wasted on me. My son and I are so different in the ways we think. I think he's aware of it and has attributed it to race (his dad is Nigerian and I'm white).

I remember the night he was born. We came home from the birthing center within hours of his birth and we were alone together. He started crying and didn't seem to want to nurse, so I walked around with him until he quieted. When I lay down again, he started crying again, so I walked with him again. After three or four repetitions, he didn't cry again when I lay down. But he just looked at me with those deep eyes as if he were trying to figure out how to communicate with this nitwit he'd been saddled with. I felt at the time that God had made a mistake, giving me a child who was smarter than I am in some way that I can't define. One of my friends commented when my son was very small that he had an "old soul."

Anyway I'll have a look at these resources. I think I've looked at Can a mind be well? already.

I was listening to Will Hall's interview with Bradley Lewis yesterday, and Lewis mentioned that one of the strengths of The Freedom Center and The Icarus Project was flexibility in accepting a diversity of ways of approaching extreme states of consciousness. I think that's good, but it's harder work because it means researching and trying a variety of approaches. I hope my son doesn't get discouraged along the way, not to mention the team.