Stanislav Grof "Race for Consciousness"

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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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[redliterocket4]

researchers like Grof have an important message that I hope more people will hear and understand in the coming years.

[engram101]

Thank you for posting this video. Mr. Grof has tuned into something very vital in spreading this awareness of the self. Holotropic breathwork seems to cut off oxygen from the brain to achieve this OOBE. All expanding consciousness methods seem to underlying fall under the "breath". Bless this man for his work.

[skatechildd]

this was completely dumb

[hazmathew]

@koldjgdaro He has changed my life as well. His work is invaluable to me.

[jbro81]

"The planet doesn't have any other problem than people." The more people that realize that, the better we all will be.

[koldjgdaro]

I love this man. He has changed my life.

[Hivequik]

psychedelics are simply a different version of serotonin, they act on the 5HT serotonin recepters the same way serotonin does, but they activate the serotonin system in a different way and allow other parts of the brain to be used that usually arent used.

[Hivequik]

pschedelic are 100% safe, theya re the same thing thats in your brain right now, but they expand the mind and allow u to forsee the future.....these are not recreational drugs, you are supoposed to do it in a ritualistic setting to clense your mind... that is what theya re suposed to be used for.

[mysticradio]

i did a few Holotropic Breathwork weekends with some shrinks where the group of seven used to pain up in Georgian bay a while back.... early 90's i think

[gukonni]

I guess what I"m saying here is that this tendency to overuse psychotropic drugs to solve patient problems... is somehow related to other problems we have in society... like with violence and rape and sex and pollution and ignorance and similar detrimental aspects. It seems like we use the easiest answer we have available rather than looking for a better one - we grab a drug and throw it at the patient, and call it done.

[gukonni]

But I think that psychotropic drugs are used too routinely, too often. Rather than being used for special cases where it would likely prevent someone from using violence to harm others or themselves, they instead use it for in all sorts of applications... even for people with mild depression symptoms. These people aren't so unstable that they're one moment away from killing something. We're messing with brain chemistry, and it's still a hit/miss affair. It's not a precise field.

[gukonni]

A lot of people I see on psychotropic drugs look drained and beat. And a disproportionate number seem to be overweight... but that's my own experience. I think it's ironic that we combat generic depression by manipulating the brain in pretty much the same way that any other drug does. We block certain chemicals or we floood it wiht certain chemicals... either way, it's hard for me to see this as a good thing. I know that in some special cases it's necessary because that person could "blow" up.