By Stanislav Grof, Richard D. Mann
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Summarizes Grof's reports and observations from greater than 40 years of study into non-ordinary states of consciousness.
This obtainable and accomplished review of the paintings of Stanislav Grof, one of many founders of transpersonal psychology, was once particularly written to acquaint novices together with his paintings. Serving as a summation of his profession and former works, this completely new ebook is the resource to introduce Grof's huge, immense contributions to the fields of psychiatry and psychology, particularly his critical notion of holotropic adventure, the place holotropic indicates "moving towards wholeness." Grof continues that the present simple assumptions and ideas of psychology and psychiatry require a thorough revision in response to the in depth and systematic examine of holotropic adventure. He means that an intensive internal transformation of humanity and an increase to the next point of realization can be humankind's purely genuine desire for the future.
“It’s infrequent to discover a textbook that's either tremendous informative and relaxing to learn. Psychology of the Future should be one of many first ones I’ve ever encounter … each one bankruptcy introduced a completely new thought, thought, or process that used to be simply as enticing because the prior one.” — Dr. Tami Brady, TCM Reviews
"This e-book is by means of a pioneering genius in awareness study. It offers the entire spectrum of Grof's principles, from his earliest mappings of utilizing LSD psychotherapy, to his medical paintings with humans dealing with loss of life, to his newer paintings with holotropic respiring, to his most recent strategies in regards to the cosmological implications of awareness study and the customers for facing an rising planetary main issue. Grof has continuously been probably the most unique thinkers within the transpersonal box, and his creativity has saved velocity with the adulthood of his total vision." -- Michael Washburn, writer of Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective
"Grof bargains an exceptional contribution to the ever-growing debate in regards to the nature of human realization and in regards to the position of humankind within the cosmos. If extra psychiatrists can be persuaded that human recognition transcends the constraints of the actual mind, and in its place is yet a facet of what could most sensible be defined as 'cosmic consciousness,' shall we not just anticipate remedy modalities to alter, yet shall we additionally count on the potential of culture-wide rethinking of the elemental presuppositions of recent cosmology, the cosmology that grounds Western associations, ideologies, and ideology concerning the nature of personhood." -- Michael E. Zimmerman, writer of Contesting Earth's destiny: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity
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Cosmic engulfment; immense physical and psychological suffering; unbearable and inescapable situation that will never end; various images of hell; feelings of entrapment and engagement (no exit); agonizing guilt and inferiority feelings; apocalyptic view of the world (horrors of wars and concentration camps, terror of Intensification of suffering to cosmic dimensions; borderline between pain and pleasure; "volcanic'' type of ecstasy; brilliant colors; explosions and fireworks; sadomasochistic orgies; murders and bloody sacrifice, active engagement in fierce battles; atmosphere of wild adventure and dangerous explorations; intense sexual orgiastic feelings and scenes of harems and carnivals; experiences of Enormous decompression; expansion of space; "illuminative" type of ecstasy, visions of gigantic halls; radiant light and beautiful colors (heavenly blue, golden, rainbow, peacock feathers); feelings of rebirth and redemption; appreciation of simple way of life; sensory enhancement; brotherly feelings; humanitarian and chari Phenomenology in LSD Sessions Undisturbed intrauterine life: realistic recollections of "good womb" experiences; "oceanic" type of ecstasy, nature at its best ("Mother Nature''); experience of cosmic unity; visions of Heaven and Paradise; disturbances of intrauterine life: realistic recollections of "bad womb" experiences (fetal crises, diseases, and emotional upheavals (table continued on next page) Page 36 TABLE 2.
However, a general discussion requires emphasizing that the COEX dynamics is not limited to constellations of traumatic memories. As my experience with holotropic states became richer and more extensive, it became clear that the roots of the COEX systems reach much deeper. However, a typical COEX system reaches even further and its deepest roots consist of various forms of transpersonal phenomena, such as pastlife experiences, Jungian archetypes, conscious identification with various animals, and others.
It can thus draw on any historical period, geographical area, and spiritual tradition of the world, quite independently from the subject's cultural or religious background. 1. Page 34 TABLE 2. Basic Perinatal Matrices BPM I BPM II BPM III BPM IV Schizophrenic psychoses (sadomasochistic and scatological elements, automutilation, abnormal sexual behavior); agitated depression, sexual deviations (sadomasochism, drinking of urine and eating of feces); obsessivecompulsive neurosis; psychogenic asthma, tics, and stammering; conversion and anxiety hysteria; frigidity and impotence; neurasthenia; traumatic neuroses; organ neuroses; migraine headache; enuresis and encopressis Schizophrenic psychoses (deathrebirth experiences, messianic delusions, elements ofdestruction and recreation of the world, salvation and redemption, identification with Christ); manic symptomatology; exhibitionism Chewing and swallowing of food; oral aggression and destruction of an object; process of defecation and urination; anal and urethral aggression; sexual orgasm; phallic aggression; delivering of a child, statoacoustic eroticism (jolting, gymnastics, fancy diving, parachuting) Satiation of thirst and hunger; pleasure of sucking; libidinal feelings after defecation, urination, sexual orgasm, or delivery of a child Related Psychopathological Syndromes Schizophrenic psychoses (paranoid symptomatology, feelings of mystical union, encounter with metaphysical evil forces); hypochondriasis (based on strange and bizarre physical sensations); hysterical hallucinosis and confusing daydreams with reality Schizophrenic psychoses (elements of hellish tortures, experience of meaningless "cardboard" world); severe inhibited "endogenous" depressions; irrational inferiority and guilt feelings; hypochondriasis (based on painful physical sensations); alcoholism and drug addiction, psoriasis; peptic ulcer Corresponding Activities in Freudian Erogenous Zones Libidinal satisfaction in all erogenous zones; libidinal feelings during rocking and bathing; partial approximation to this condition after oral, anal, urethral, or genital satisfaction and after delivery of a child (table continued on next page) Oral frustration (thirst, hunger, painful stimuli); retention of feces and/or urine; sexual frustration; experiences of cold, pain and other unpleasant sensations Page 35 TABLE 2.