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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). Tags : Stanislav Grof Holotropic Breathwork altered states non-ordinary consciousness shamanism healing transpersonal LSD |