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Consciousness Revolution and Its aftermath by Stanislav Grof
Consciousness Revolution and Its aftermath by Stanislav Grof
“The Consciousness Revolution is an extrodinary discussion among three of the very finest minds of our time, spirited in its exchange, compassionate in its embrace, brilliant in its clarion call to awaken our conscience and consciousness.” Ken Wilber, author of Sex, Ecology, Spirituality and One Taste
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Salepage : Consciousness Revolution and Its aftermath by Stanislav Grof
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Stanislav Grof
Dr. Stanislav Grof’s professional career has covered a period of over 60 years in which his primary interest has been research of the therapeutic potential of a large subgroup of non-ordinary states of consciousness that have great therapeutic, transformative, heuristic, and evolutionary potential. He coined for these states the term “holotropic,” meaning literally “moving toward wholeness (from the Greek holos = whole and trepo/trepein = moving toward something). His research activity can be divided into the following periods:
- Four years of laboratory research of psychedelics – LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, adrenochrome, adrenolutine, and tryptamine derivatives – DMT, DET, and DPT (1956-1960. In the year1960-1967 Dr.Grof spent as Principal Investigator of the psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
- This was followed by seven years of research of psychedelic psychotherapy in the Baltimore, MD. The first two of these years, he worked as Clinical and Research Fellow at the Henry Phipps Clinic of The Johns Hopkins University and in the Research Unit of the Spring Grove State Hospital in Baltimore, MD. The following five years, he held the position of Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins and Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in Catonsville, MD. In this capacity he headed for several years the last surviving official research project of psychedelic therapy in the USA.
- From 1973 until 1987, he was Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he developed jointly with his late wife Christina, Holotropic Breathwork, a powerful non-pharmacological form of self-exploration and psychotherapy combining accelerated breathing, evocative music, and a special form of bodywork.
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