In every mystical wisdom tradition, non-ordinary states of consciousness have served as essential tools for discovering why we are here and how we can live richer, more meaningful lives. For more than 40 years, Stanislav Grof has tested and brought these methods into the field of modern psychology.
Are emotional states and behavioral patterns explained solely by brain chemistry and life experience or could they be expressions of far vaster universal energies? Which specific mind states most powerfully accelerate integration and healing of the self? And how do you access these states?
On The Transpersonal Vision, Grof answers these questions and raises many others in a stunning summation of his groundbreaking life's work. You will learn about transpersonal psychology's daring forays into the worlds of the shaman and the mystic; how your perinatal (birth and prebirth) experiences profoundly affect you even today; what past-life, near-death, and out-of-body phenomena teach us about our life purpose; and much more.
Course objectives:
• Utilize the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness
• Classify the structures of psychosomatic disorders through the transpersonal conceptual framework
• List the elements of Grof's Holotropic Breathwork
• Review the human experience of death and dying throughout history
• Review the status of non-ordinary states of consciousness throughout history
• Examine the philosophical, metaphysical, and spiritual insights that emerged from Grof's work
• Evaluate the practical relevance of these insights on the individual and on the world as a whole A founder of Transpersonal Psychology plumbs the hidden depths of the human psyche.
Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof, MD, is a psychiatrist with more than 60 years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness and is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology.
He has published more than 160 articles in professional journals and many books, including LSD: Doorway to the Numinous; Beyond the Brain; LSD Psychotherapy; The Cosmic Game; Psychology of the Future; The Ultimate Journey; When the Impossible Happens; Books of the Dead; Healing Our Deepest Wounds; Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art; Beyond Death; The Stormy Search for the Self; Spiritual Emergency; and Holotropic Breathwork (the last four with Christina Grof).
In 1969, Dr. Grof became assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and continued his research as chief of psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in Catonsville, Maryland. In 1973, he was invited as scholar-in-residence to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he developed, with his late wife Christina Grof, Holotropic Breathwork®, an innovative form of experiential psychotherapy that is now being used worldwide.
Dr. Grof is the founder of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA) and for several decades served as its president. Currently, Dr. Grof is professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, California.
In August 2019, Dr. Grof released an encyclopedia of his life's work, The Way of the Psychonaut, and in October 2020 the companion documentary film, The Way of the Psychonaut: Stanislav Grof's Journey of Consciousness. (thewayofthepsychonaut.com)
In May 2020, with his wife Brigitte Grof, he launched the international Grof® Legacy Training, their new program for working with holotropic states of consciousness, transpersonal psychology, Holotropic Breathwork, and spiritual emergence. (grof-legacy-training.com)
Since April 2016, he has been happily married to Brigitte Grof. They live together in Germany and California and conduct seminars and workshops worldwide. Learn more at stangrof.com.
