Stanislav Grof, M.D., is a psychiatrist with over fifty years experience researching non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Grof is one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of analysing, healing, and obtaining growth and insight into the human psyche. Being the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association (founded in 1977), he went on to become distinguished adjunct faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a position he remains in today.
He has published extensively in professional journals and has written many books including LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research (SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
At the 25th Anniversary Convocation of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology (ATP), held in August 1993 at Asilomar, California, Stanislav Grof received an Honorary Award for major contributions to and development of the field of Transpersonal Psychology. Grof received the VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Václav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007.
Stan speaks with Joanna about his relationship with Nature, the unified worldview emerging from the study of holotropic states of consciousness, working with the archetypes, entheogens and holotropic breathwork as powerful means of transformation, personal experiences versus belief systems, the perils and evolutionary potential of humankind…
Music: Galileo, (from En Concert) by Claire Pelletier
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I would really appreciate listening to the interview with Stanislav Grof on personal experience and spiritual quest since I am doing a doctorate on the spiritual life of children and adolescent.
It might be very complementary to The Healing Codes of Alex Loyd and probably other great people in the field.
1993 Boston with Stan & Christina. Dropped out of transpersonal program. Personal. Read self discovery & other work. I have finished degrees in psych, icadc, personality theory, religious studies, friend of Christina’s 12 program. Writing a book now on various programs to transformation, turning points, watershed, defining moments, psych Maslow, Buddhism, 12 step. I want more transpersonal info/knowledge. Jim backus. Hamilton,ont
Interested in listening to more of Stan.
I am interested in transpersonal psychology