Stanislav Grof

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Grof in 2007.

Stanislav Grof is Czech psychiatrist. He promotes a theraputic method that he calls holotropic breathwork, which consists of getting a patient high, (initially with LSD then with hyperventilation when LSD became illegal), and attributing mystical significance to the experience[1]. The process, combined with the forking over of large sums of money, allegedly heals the patient from trauma experienced during past lives.

Holotropic breathwork was practiced in a medical setting until it became illegal in the UK; it is now practiced under the guise of self help workshops.[2]

Grof talks about shamans alot, and humbly regards his own work as a paradigm shift in science akin to those of Newton, Galileo.

Ervin Laszlo is his BFF.

[edit] Publications

  • Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift (Stream of Experience Productions, 2012)
  • "Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy" (State University of New York,1985)

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