Stanislav Grof "Holotropic"

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Stanislav Grof is a psychiatrist with almost 50 years of experience in research of nonordinary states of consciousness. He has been the principal investigator in a psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia, chief of psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and scholar-in-residence at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. It was at Esalen that he codeveloped, with his wife Christina Grof, Holotropic Breathwork, a technique that includes deep, connected breathing, music, art, and trained facilitation with the goal wholeness, healing, and wisdom.

Currently, Grof is professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, conducts professional training programs in Holotropic Breathwork and transpersonal psychology, and gives lectures and seminars worldwide. He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology and the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association.

Among his publications are more than 100 papers in professional journals and the books Realms of the Human Unconscious; The Human Encounter With Death (with Joan Halifax); LSD Psychotherapy; The Adventure of Self-Discovery; Beyond the Brain; Books of the Dead; The Holotropic Mind; The Cosmic Game; The Transpersonal Vision; The Consciousness Revolution (with Ervin Laszlo and Peter Russell); Psychology of the Future; Beyond Death ; and The Stormy Search for the Self (the last two with Christina Grof). He also edited the books Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science; Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution; and Spiritual Emergency (the last with Christina Grof).

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[c1zx]

Stan Grof is as revolutionary to the field of psychology as was Freud. Without Stan's work, we'd have only a fraction of the full human potential allowed by 'science'. Thank God, or All That Is, for people like Stan and his wife.

[ghostdog7575]

Albert Hofmann said: if I am the father of LSD then Stanislav Grof is the godfather

[Jordainio]

@throohiker HAH!

Good luck int the day of age where most are sponsored by LILLY, MERCK, etc...unregulated pharmaceuticals industry...good. luck.

[throohiker]

Excellent. I wonder where I can find a directory or something that lists other psychiatrists who follow the same thinking.

[HY34HU]

12connectionMore info I found was doing a search at amazon. Stan Grof has sveral books.

[WellConditionedChimp]

Can anybody direct me to evidence that this works?

[12connection]

pleease tell me where to find more informations?! where should i go!?

[noiz87]

@Thewildflow The description states that he created one technique. The others he has learned from various sources, probably books, colleagues, yogis, monks, etc.

Though I'm not sure the point is going on an acid-like trip just for the high, and I'm not sure if you can even achieve the trip with such mindset.

[MasterChince]

This guy is a pioneer for certain.... so very much physchidelic experience he could make a brazilian aboriginese shaman jealous......read his book "The Cosmic Game".... not very big but very cool... about the d.m.t. and l.s.d. experiences of his patients... and an interesting encounter with Joseph Campel

[Thewildflow]

So in other words you can go on a trip by breathing certain ways? How does one find info on these techniques?