The Transpersonal Vision: The Healing Potential of Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

Grof Ph.D., Stanislav

ISBN 10: 1591795028 ISBN 13: 9781591795025

Publisher: Sounds True, 2006

Synopsis

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.

Note: Workbook is on CD-ROM.

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

About this title

Book Description

This pioneering cartographer of the human psyche offers a stunning summation of the quest for a radical new architecture of the self. Listeners learn about the field's daring forays into the worlds of the shaman and mystic; what past-life experiences can teach one about one's life purpose; how non-ordinary states reveal the intrinsic structure of the universe itself; and much more.

About the Author

Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof, MD, received his doctorate in medicine from the Charles University School of Medicine in Prague and his doctorate in the philosophy of medicine from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Grof has served as a research fellow at John Hopkins University and chief of psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Center. He currently teaches psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Stanislav Grof is the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association. He is the author of 11 books, including Realms of the Human Unconscious; Beyond the Brain; The Holographic Mind; and The Stormy Search for the Self (with Christina Grof).

About this edition

• Publisher: Sounds True
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1591795028
• ISBN 13: 9781591795025
• Binding: Audio CD