ABSTRACT
One of the major thrusts of the counter-culture at present is the search for an expressive mythology. The new approaches in transpersonal psychology have brought a new-found relationship between physiological and biological aspects of the human organism, and transcendental states of mind, so that it is meaningful to examine religious and metaphysical systems in terms of the potential for growth which they offer. Charles Tart's distinction of 'state-specific sciences' may well be the turning point both for new inroads of research into the potential of the mind, and also for an understanding of the essential relativity of the scientific method. At present the art and music of the counter-culture, with its fusion of mythological and symbolic themes, indicates a new willingness to explore faculties of creativity which open inroads to states of consciousness outside previously defined boundaries.
