Grof, Stanislav

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Bulletin 79,341(1973). Above all, see Stanislav Grof s definitive study REALMS OF THE HUMAN UNCONSCIOUS (1976). 

Many DMT psychonauts return with a certainty that consciousness continues after death. In particular, they return to our world believing that their souls exist beyond the body and woven into the fabric of the universe. In John Morgan s Rational Mysticism, Stanislav Grof, M.D, Ph.D., explains that his drug use, not confined to DMT, has taken away... 

In the last fifteen years, former LSD researcher Stanislav Grof, M.D., and his wife Christina, have developed a powerful and increasingly popular method of inducing psychedelic-like alternative states of consciousness. Known as Holotropic Breathwork, this technique does not involve the use of drugs, and is regarded by thousands of practitioners worldwide as an extraordinarily fast and effective psychotherapeutic modality. 

I think it would be no exaggeration to compare the discovery of LSD, and the use of LSD, by such pioneers as Dr. [Stanislav] Grof, whom you heard last night, to the Copernican revolution, the Darwinian revolution, and the Freudian revolution. 

Dr. Stanislav Grof provides a useful start in evaluating the possibility and meaning of a turbulent experience with a psychedelic ... 

Dr. Stanislav Grof, who received LSD in 1954 and subsequently observed more than 3,500 sessions. 

The Human Encounter with Death, Stanislav Grof Joan Halifax (E.P. Dutton, 1967) The Game of Life, Timothy Leary (Peace Press, 1979)... 

The Problems and Prospects of LSD (Charles C. Thomas, J.T. Ungerleider, ed., 1968) Realms of the Human Unconscious Observations from LSD Research, Stanislav Grof (Esalen Viking Presses, 1975)... 

The liquidation of the traumatic material, by reliving and rational integration with subsequent ecstatic experiences, is accompanied by a heightening of the patient s security and self-esteem and the disappearance of maladaptive patterns and clinical sjrmptoms. Avery typical occurrence is the resolution of ambivalent attitudes with a successive narrowing of the oscillation spectrum of contradictory tendencies and a sort of mutual neutralization. Toward the end of the procedure the patients relate that they feel personally free and exempt from various pathological dependencies they suffered from previously, Stanislav Grof, M.D.(1967)... 

Very high doses of LSD, above 500 meg, evoke quite regularly extreme psychotic episodes, in [Dr.] Leuner s sense, as conditions of catatoniform excitation or stupor, affective-deliriant states with disturbances of consciousness and motor stereotypes, Stanislav Grof, M.D.(1967)... 

Stanislav Grof, M.D. author of Realms of the Human Unconsciousness... 

For a recent discussion of the potential value of LSD psychotherapy and the relative lack of adverse side effects, see Psych. Bulletin 79,341(1973). Above all, see Stanislav Grofs definitive study REALMS OF THE HUMAN UNCONSCIOUS (1976). 

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