Psyche Unbound
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Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof is an extraordinary compilation of 22 essays that honor the path-breaking lifework of Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D., the world's leading researcher in psychedelic-assisted therapy, breathwork, and the exploration of non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Psyche Unbound features contributions from thought leaders of the last five decades, including a piece from Joseph Campbell's 1971 lecture in the Great Hall at Cooper Union and Huston Smith's 1976 summary of Grof's work as it relates to the study of religion and mysticism. More recent writing includes reflections by renowned psychiatrists and researchers that discuss the importance of Grof's contributions on the current wave of interest and research into psychedelic-assisted therapies and alternative states of consciousness.
Psyche Unbound, considered a festschrift for Stanislav Grof, includes essays that explore Grof's work on numerous fronts including transpersonal sexual experiences, implications for social and cultural change, comparative studies with Asianreligious systems, the perinatal dimensions of Jean-Paul Sartre's transformational 1935 mescaline experience, and parallel findings from quantum and relativistic physics.
Edited by Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., and Sean Kelly, Ph.D., Psyche Unbound also features contributions from renowned academics, scientists and researchers including Charles Grob, Michael Mithoefer, Jenny Wade, William Keepin, Thomas Purton, Thomas Riedlinger, Fritjof Capra and more.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Section I: Early Witnesses and Allies
- No More Horizons
- The Psychedelic Evidence
- Perception and Knowledge: Reflections on Psychological and Spiritual Learning in the Psychedelic Experience
- The Psychology of Birth, the Prenatal Epoch, and Incarnation: Ancient and Modern Perspectives
- Journeys Beyond Space and Time
- Psyche and Cosmos: Planetary Correlations with Extraordinary States of Consciousness
- Section II: Psychotherapy and Consciousness Research
- Tracing the Courses of Heavenly Bodies: The Varieties of Transcendent Sexual Experience
- From 'Bad' Ritual to 'Good' Ritual: Transmutations of Child-Bearing Trauma in Holotropic Ritual
- The Use of Holotropic Breathwork in the Integrated Treatment of Mood Disorders
- Breathing New Life into Social Transformation: Holotropic Breathwork for Social, Cultural, and Political Leaders
- Personal Reflections on the Mystery of Death and Rebirth in LSD Therapy
- Lessons for a Career in Psychedelic and Holotropic Therapies
- Light at the End of the Tunnel: Stanislav Grof's Vision for the End of Life
- Section III: Comparative and Theoretical Studies
- Seekers of a Second Birth: James, Grof, and the Varieties of Perinatal Experience
- Grof and Whitehead: Visions of a Postmodern Cosmology
- Subtle Connections: Grof, Jung, and the Quantum Vacuum
- Grof's Perinatal Matrices and the Sa?khya Gu?as
- Sartre's Rite of Passage
- The Consciousness Research of Stanislav Grof: A Participatory Perspective
- Endnotes
- Contributor Biographies
- Bibliography for the Works of Stanislav Grof
