Stanislav Grof
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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)