Stanislav Grof: Adventure of Self-Discovery - Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove

NOTE: This is an excerpt from the full 90-minute DVD.
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2sgrof.html

What is the origin of individual behavior and personality? Stanislav Grof proposes that individuals have systems of condensed experience (COEX systems) which become anchored to aspects of the birth trauma. In Part I of this program, he describes four different basic stages of the birth process and shows how they relate to attitudes developed later in life.

In Part 2 of the full DVD he discusses the development of his "holotropic" approach to therapy as an outgrowth of his early work with psychedelic drugs. Simple breathing exercises enable individuals to achieve an altered state which can lead to self-healing of emotional blocks. The unconscious, according to Grof, cannot be limited to the merely personal and biographical aspects of self, but can be seen from a transpersonal perspective as being identified with all of creation.

Stanislav Grof is author of LSD Psychotherapy, Beyond the Brain, and The Adventure of Self-Discovery and co-author of The Human Encounter with Death. A former professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, he has been scholar in residence for fourteen years at the Esalen Institute. With his wife, ChristinaGrof, he has developed a psychotherapeutic approach known as Holotropic Therapy.

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[LeeMaa91]

anyone knows in which book he talks about how to be able to see how you looked and what did you see when was in a mother stomach,etc.?

past and lives before this,and other peoples past and animals,plants etc?

in one books he's talking about this,and how to do it,I just dont know how it's called

[boodabill]

Thanks for posting these, I never knew about them. Great conversations but then it' s good to go out and experience what they are talking about so one can integrate it...

[RMProdux2008]

this is straight out of Beyond The Brain. Ive had that book for more than 10 years and still find new revelations to it everyday. Thanks for posting!

[mcsas]

This interview is probably thirty years old, but the message is timeless. I always looked forward to Jeffry's show when it was broadcast in the SF Bay area.

[halvel]

I've seen a number of interviews by this Jeffrey Mishlove in the past. I like him a lot. Very well informed and thus can ask meaningful questions.