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Stanislav Grof M D | 278 pages | 21 May 2012 | On Demand Publishing, LLC-Create Space | 9780982607725 | English | United Kingdom Healing Our Deepest Wounds – Spirit

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Grof's consciousness research over the last five decades has shown that the deepest roots of trauma often lie in experiences from birth or in events from human history that have not yet been resolved and are still active in the collective unconscious. This unresolved personal or collective history then expresses through an individual or group that has some connection t Dr. This unresolved personal or collective history then expresses through an individual or group that has some connection to the earlier events. Traditional therapeutic approaches which focus only on events in the personal biography or tranquilizing medications do not access or heal these deeper wounds in the human psyche. From a more general perspective, Dr. Grof examines the broad problems of violence and greed in society and finds that the widespread fear and aggression between individuals and groups may also originate in large part from the unconscious acting-out of unresolved historical traumas from the collective unconscious. The message of Dr. Grof and this book is, however, a hopeful one: there are approaches to therapy which utilize a specific non-ordinary state of consciousness which enables individuals, with support, to access and heal these deeper levels of trauma from the personal and collective unconscious. Grof describes various approaches to achieving this Holotropic state and using it for healing, with his focus on Holotropic , which he developed with his partner Christina, and , which he pioneered in the s and which is now experiencing a renaissance of clinical research for treatment of addictions and PTSD. Get A Copy. PaperbackFirstpages. More Details Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. 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Grof is known for his early studies of LSD and its effects on the psyche— the field of psychedelic psychotherapy. Building on his Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift while conducting LSD research and on 's theory of birth trauma, Grof constructed a theoretical framework for pre- and perinatal psychology and Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift which LSD trips and other powerfully emotional experiences were mapped onto on Grof is known for his early studies of LSD and its effects on the psyche—the field of psychedelic psychotherapy. Building on his observations while conducting LSD research and on Otto Rank's theory of birth trauma, Grof constructed a theoretical framework for pre- and perinatal psychology and transpersonal psychology in which LSD trips and other powerfully emotional experiences were mapped onto one's early fetal and neonatal experiences. Over time, this theory developed into an in-depth "cartography" of the deep human psyche. Following the legal suppression of LSD use in the late s, Grof went on to discover that many of these states of mind could be explored without drugs by using certain breathing techniques in a supportive environment. He continues this work today under the title "Holotropic Breathwork". Grof received his M. InDr. Grof was invited to the in Big Sur, , and lived there until as a scholar-in-residence, developing his ideas. Being the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association founded inhe went on to become distinguished adjunct faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a position he remains in today. Grof was featured in the film Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Withina documentary about rediscovering an enchanted cosmos in the modern world. Books by Stanislav Grof. Escape the Present with These 24 Historical Romances. 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Stanislav " Stan " Grof born July 1, is a Czech psychiatristone of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche. Grof received his M. In he was invited to the Esalen Institute in Big SurCaliforniaand lived there until as a scholar-in-residence, developing his ideas. As founding president Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift the International Transpersonal Association founded inhe went on to become distinguished adjunct faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studiesa position he Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift in as of [update]. Grof featured in the film Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Withina documentary about rediscovering an enchanted cosmos in the modern world. Grof is known, in scientific circles, for his early studies of LSD and its effects on the psyche —the field of psychedelic therapy. Building on his observations while conducting LSD research and on Otto Rank 's theory of birth traumaGrof constructed a theoretical framework for prenatal and perinatal psychology and transpersonal psychology in which LSD trips and other powerfully emotional experiences were mapped onto a person's early fetal and neonatal experiences. Following the suppression of legal LSD use in the late s, Grof went on to develop a theory that many states of mind could be explored without drugs by using certain breathing techniques. Grof distinguishes between two modes of consciousness: the hylotropic and the holotropic. The holotropic is characteristic of non-ordinary states of consciousness such as meditative, mystical, or psychedelic experiences. He connects the holotropic to the Hindu conception of Atman- Brahmanthe divine, true nature of the self. In the late s Grof proposed a psychological hypothesis to explain the near-death experience NDE. According to Grof the NDE reflects memories of the birth process with the tunnel representing the birth canal. Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift the hypothesis is "pitifully inadequate to explain the NDE. For a start the newborn infant would not see anything like a tunnel as Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift was being born. Furthermore, the birth canal does not look like a tunnel and besides the infant's head is normally down and its eyes are closed. Stanislav Grof has researched the effects of psychedelic substances, [13] which he states can also be induced by non-pharmacological means. According to Grof, traditional , psychology and psychotherapy use a model of the human psyche that is limited to postnatal biography and the Freudian individual unconscious. appears in the fourth Perinatal Matrix. The next level is the recollective-biographical level and the individual unconsciousness. These involve the personal biography, and unresolved emotional issues. According to Grof, the reliving of emotional and physical pain can become so intense that an identification with "the pain of entire groups of unfortunate people, all of humanity, or even all of life", [25] can manifest. This is accompanied with "dramatic physiological manifestations". At this level, death may be encountered and birth relived. This is the original symbiotic unity of the fetus with the maternal organism. This matrix starts with the onset of labor. This matrix is connected with the move of the fetus through the birth channel. This matrix is related to the stage of delivery, the actual birth of the child. This experience of ego death seems to entail an instant merciless destruction of all previous reference points in the life of the individual. According to Grof what dies in this process is "a basically paranoid attitude toward the world which reflects the negative experience of the subject during childbirth and later. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subjectpotentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. September Learn how and when to remove this template message. PragueCzechoslovakia. Figiel, Joanna Souvenir Press Ltd. Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within. Critical Mass Productions. 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In this teleseminar, Rick Tarnas and Stan Grof will explore how psychedelic research has revealed the cosmic dimensions of the human psyche-by shifting the emphasis in psychology from postnatal life to the birth trauma, and deeper still to the transpersonal and archetypal realms. This deeper understanding of the human psyche gives us new insights into the roots of emotional and psychosomatic disorders. In this series Grof and others talk about the global crisis and the emerging paradigm shift discussing the deeper psychological implications of our current time. These deeper psychological concerns include topics generally ridiculed by science such as spiritual journey, mystical experiences, ESP, past lives, quantum physics and astrology. In traditional psychological a dissolution of the boundaries between internal and external realities would be a diagnosis for a mental illness and could lead to medications, shock therapy and institutionalization in extreme cases. Grof and his wife Christina took a very close look at non-ordinary states of consciousness creating a framework for understanding the deeper meaning of non-ordinary states and have been able to distinguish between Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift illness and normal or spiritually based non ordinary experiences referred to as holotropic states. The Grofs developed what is called the spiritual emergency, this is when a person is going through difficult existential revolution marked by many possible symptoms including but not limited to depression, anxiety, hallucinations, mystical experiences, past life memories, powerful and unusual psychosomatic mentally created sensations. Spiritual Emergency was once thought to be and still is by those who are behind on their research, but now it is recognized as similar to the kundalini awakening described by mystics of India. Spiritual emergence is the introduction to the deepest parts of who we are. This has been a great contribution to the field of Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift and has helped many people avoid misdiagnosis and to move gracefully through their journey of self-discovery. Grof also dramatically expanded the cartography of the human psyche and human consciousness in general. The client was reliving various memories and experiences of the past and also experiencing the physical sensations of the dramatic event. He found that many times a person would experience multiple traumas which were similar in character either one at a time or all together at once. Observing this he created a theory known as COEX systems which mean Constellations of Condensed Experiences which linked certain emotional and psychosomatic symptoms both in life and in therapy. Constellations of Condensed Experience is easy to understand by breaking it down word by word. Constellations meaning a series of experiences emerging from various layers in the psyche, perhaps an experience of chocking from early childhood, then near drowning as an adult and chocking on food at a restaurant these all have a similar feeling to them and thus are linked together in constellations. Condensed means summation, a conglomerate of experiences all summed up together. In the chocking example these various layers of similar traumatic experiences are link and in our mind they are condensed and begin to have a greater psychic charge because the client has merged all the chocking experiences into a singular psychosomatic gestalt. When moving deeper into the psyche people were experiencing traumatic convincing memories from the birthing process which Grof called Perinatal birth trauma. Grof found that the COEX systems where often anchored in the experience of birth and that the client had completed birth physically, however, was still in the birthing process emotionally. He broke the perinatal into four stages which represent the four stages of birth. In the chocking example it is possible that they were chocked by the umbilical cord in the womb and the pattern of chocking experiences was set in motion from birth. After fully experiencing the event or events many of the defenses and behaviors began to dissolve and in some cases spontaneous recovery from treatment resistance lifelong symptoms occurred. Trauma is the experience of stress so overwhelming that we cannot experience it fully and thus trauma is the most dissociated, hidden and defended parts of ourselves. Hiding the traumatic experience makes sense, for example, if sexual abuse happens at a young age it will be easier to process later in life when we have better understanding of the world in which we live. The trouble arises when we never go back to process those traumas, the psyche then begins to unconsciously recreate scenarios with resemble the original trauma, theoretically, in an attempt by the subconscious to bring forth the original memory so it can be resolved. Resolving the deepest wounds often led Grof and his clients beyond what they had imagined and propelled them into the transpersonal realms. Transpersonal is a term meaning beyond the self, these are experiences which are beyond our normal experience of life such as mystical visions, past life memories, out of body experience, telepathy, experiencing scenes from the lives of our ancestors, the death and rebirth experience and many more examples. Grof found that often once the birth trauma was experienced often the client would go through psychospiritual death and rebirth and emerge in another dimension of being. In mystical experiences one would have a convincing experience of union with god and the oneness of the universe. In holotropic states of consciousness people moved beyond the known Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift of Cartesian Newtonian science and emerged into the realities of the mystic. There were many cases where the root trauma Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift linked through the COEX systems to past lives, ancestral karma, dead relatives. Some could not be helped until they experienced mystical union or encountered certain nonphysical entities. The transpersonal world was the realm of the mystic, visionary, shaman and the soul. Transpersonal realms defy many of the assumptions of science; however, it is becoming recognized as a part of the psyche. Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift acquired over the last thirty years with assistance from , author of Cosmos and Psyche, shows a powerful correlation between planetary transits and the character of experience in holotropic states of consciousness. Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift Holotopic Breathwork retreats there can be as many as people using breath work to reach holotropic states of consciousness. Grof observed in one session that 20 percent of the people experienced the archetype of crucifixion followed by a psychosomatic death and rebirth experience this date happened to be a major holiday in Christian tradition and a powerful planetary alignment linked to death and rebirth. The outer planets have a powerful effect on the nature holotropic states of consciousness but manifest in ways which are diverse and multivalent. This great variety of experiences are all linked together by a familiar resonance known as archetype. Grof suggests we can learn astrology and be able to predict the best dates for certain therapies to be applied and even use this information for spiritual practice. When Grof was asked to go in more detail about the findings in his early career he stated that he is not interested in that stuff anymore, what he is teaching now is archetypal perspective. Archetype could be the formative energies that can burst forth into outer existence so Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift can be experienced externally. Do we have the choice of how these archetypes manifest in our lives and the world? If the archetype is effect by the planetary transits and our birth chart can we have free will? Tarnas explores these questions by reminding us that the archetype Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift not just a god that lies in the transcendent realms of the universe but it is a concept with many layers which are multivalent. Many of those layers are informed not just by our birth chart and the planets but also by the choices we make and what part of the archetype is ready to be expressed through our experiences and actions. The current world crisis reminds us of the archetype of the apocalypse and the end of the 24, year long count of the Mayan calendar. Tarnas explained how we are moving into influence with a Uranus Pluto square which will last from to which marks a time of Promethean revolution, innovation, rapid change, destruction of social orders, emergence of progressive reforms. This Pluto Uranus square alignment has a powerful effect on people in the holotropic states of consciousness indicating major breakthroughs and destruction of old systems replaced by intense creativity and Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift. Tarnas believes it will be a time of revolution and great change and that there is a possibility that as a planet we are going to create a better system and replace or modify the current structures. Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift and meaning full coincidences between astrologyholotropic states, dreams, waking life and many other forms of synchronic events were presented by Carl Jung in his late career. Synchronic events seem to be a way in which the inner world and the outer world affect one another. Grof began to talk about his interest in the Mayans and in their use of holotropic states of consciousness and their deep understanding of astrology. Using the various visionary plants and other techniques for inducing holotropic states the Mayans gained an experiential understanding of astrology as well as a scientific understanding. Grof shared his vision of the archetype of the apocalypse in a recent teleseminar with Wisdom University. At the beginning there was a tremendous mobilization of energy it became Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift kind of streaming whirling energy whirling cosmic vortex of creation and destruction. It looked like the blades of a Cuisinart and I began to see it was related to two things. I always was interested in the swastika because I experience 6 years of Nazi Germany when this was such a destructive symbol. And then when I started studying Tantra I saw the other side of the swastika. What was happening, there, was if the swastika was turned one way it seemed to be related to chopping the whole the unified whole, into individual pieces and related to creation where we go from one to the many. And the other direction was the spiritual journey and when we go from world of many and we dissolve boundaries and ultimately everything comes together and we become one again. So, I was getting this kind of archetypal image of creation and the spiritual journey. And then the scene changed and I saw unbelievable destruction which involved natural disasters volcanic eruption and tidal waves, volcanoes, tornadoes and so on. Basically destruction of the physical world. And, I actually saw the archetypal image of the four horse man of the apocalypse. And, after experiencing this for some time it suddenly changed and I was in a cave that was like the cave Plato describes in the republic. We are prisoners in a cave and we are looking at the wall and all we see is shadows of what is happening behind us. He describes the philosopher as one who can get up and turn around and you get the sense that what we experience in the world are these shadows. And, I suddenly understood that the apocalypse was an archetype, a powerful archetype that you can certainly experience internally the way it happened to St. John, but like any archetype it could also manifest. The was a great sort of ending to this particular session where I saw this beautiful scene, kinda like a theater very ornate stage and I saw archetypal figures coming and they were bowing like they participated in the creation of this experience of the material world. And, so I saw an archetype of the warrior, I saw it as one figure but to was holographically opening to scenes of war. And the archetype of lovers and it was opening to scenes of love making and romance and I saw the trickster figure and they were coming and bowing like they expected appreciation of the good performance they did in creating this incredible show of the physical world. So that was the my own experience of the apocalypse and Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift understanding I got from it. The talks from healing our deepest wounds are pushing the envelope of consciousness taking the realities for the internal and external world merging their influences into a meaningful whole and connecting our existence back to unity with the cosmos. Grof at one point goes as far as to express his belief that we live in a virtual reality created by collective archetypes. When considering this presentation I got this incredible image of the archetype looking much like an painting where at certain times we make psychic soul connections to all other beings experiencing the same archetype. The collection of all these various diverse consciousness united to form this amazing image of an extra dimensional being who was a collective of united souls. We all are united at some level and live in a holographic universe of consciousness. In the west we are moving ever Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift quickly toward a new understanding of the universe informed by both the inner and outer channels of information. As we move deeper into the psyche we reach a point where all is connected and we realize the emotional consequences of our actions may last over multiple lifetimes if unresolved. Science is more clearly understanding the ways in which our inner world effects the outer world in both small and profound ways. It is possible that all who do deep inner work are not just healing themselves but are healing the collective in some way. By experiencing and resolving trauma we open to deeper spiritual awareness and move toward wholeness with all creation. He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology, and founding president of the International Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift Association ITA. For the past 50 years he has conducted research on therapeutic and heuristic aspects of non-ordinary states of consciousness using psychedelics and various nondrug techniques and exploring the implications of consciousness studies for psychiatric theory and the emerging scientific paradigm. His first book, The Passion of the Western Mind, became both a bestseller and required reading at many universities. His book Cosmos and Psyche is a ground-breaking work that represents a serious conceptual challenge to the current scientific worldview. Rick played a pivotal role in laying foundations for archetypal astrology, a discipline that explores significant correlations between cyclical alignments of the planets and the archetypal patterns of human experience—world history, culture, art, and individual biography. Hampton roads publishing company, Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift. Bache, Christopher m. Life cycles reincarnation and the web of life. 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