Following the legal suppression of LSD use in the late 1960s, 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.

Stanislav Grof, a founder of transpersonal psychology, based much of his work in prenatal and perinatal psychology on Rank's The Trauma of Birth ( Kripal, 2007, pp. 249 – 269 ).

By common consent, the following branches are considered to be transpersonal psychological schools: various depth psychology approaches including Analytical psychology, based on Carl Jung, and the Archetypal psychology of James Hillman ; the spiritual psychology of Robert Sardello ; psychosynthesis founded by Roberto Assagioli ; Zen Transactional Psychotherapy created by Robert M. Anthony ; and the theories of Otto Rank, Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof, Timothy Leary, Ken Wilber, Michael Washburn and Charles Tart.

Grof, on the other hand, operates with a cartography consisting of three kinds of territories: the realm of the sensory barrier and the personal unconscious ( described by psychoanalysis ), the perinatal or birth-related realm ( organizing principles for the psyche ), and the transpersonal realm.

In the process of elaborating what he calls a meta-transpersonal psychology, Capriles has carried out conscientious refutations of Wilber, Grof and Washburn, which according to Macdonald & Friedman will have important repercusions on the future of transpersonal psychology.

Grof received the VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Václav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007.

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 a person's early fetal and neonatal experiences.

* In 1993 the Scottish Charities Office commissioned a report into holotropic breathwork, developed by Czech psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, having received complaints about workshops on it at the Findhorn Foundation.

Grof disputes many of the medical criticisms of Holotropic Breathwork, arguing that they are based on misunderstandings of the physiological and psychological processes involved.

Grof argues that “ the results ... supported the clinical impressions of the often dramatic effects of LSD psychotherapy on the emotional condition and physical pain of cancer patients .”

There is an extensive training and certification program for facilitators through Grof Transpersonal Training.

* " Evidence for the Akashic Field from Modern Consciousness Research " by consciousness researcher Dr. Stanislav Grof, M. D.

Maslow had already published work regarding human peak experiences, and was one of the people, together with Stanislav Grof and Viktor Frankl, who suggested the term " transpersonal " for the emerging field.

This has led to the confrontation of constructive and deconstructive models of the process leading to genuine mental health: what Wilber sees as a pre / trans fallacy does not exist for Washburn and Grof, for pre-rational states may be genuinely transpersonal, and re-living them may be essential in the process of achieving genuine sanity.

Stanislav Grof ( born July 1, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia ) is a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche.

The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species. Grof conceives of the use of hallucinogenic drugs to be one method to overcome the West's peculiar aversion to holotropic consciousness: In one of my early books I suggested that the potential significance of LSD and other psychedelics for psychiatry and psychology was comparable to the value the microscope has for biology or the telescope has for astronomy.

Material emerging from sessions of psychedelic psychotherapy using LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs was the foundation for research into the enduring effects of pre-and perinatal experiences in adult life conducted by Frank Lake, Athanasios Kafkalides ( 1919-1989 ) and Stanislav Grof.

According to Stanislav Grof, " The major obstacle to their systematic utilization for therapeutic purposes was the fact that they tended to occur in an elemental fashion, without a recognizable pattern, and frequently to the surprise of both the patient and the therapist.

* The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth Through Transformative Crisis ( 1990 ) by Stanislav Grof with Christina Grof

* Books of the Dead: Manuals for Living and Dying ( 1993 ) by Stanislav Grof

* The Thirst for Wholeness: Attachment, Addiction and the Spiritual Path ( 1994 ) by Christina Grof

The Bulletin has provided an outlet for the voices of leading figures in the psychedelic research movement such as Richard Alpert ( Ram Dass ), Stanislav Grof, Rick Strassman, Ralph Metzner, and Albert Hofmann.

At Esalen, Price encouraged Grof to develop the therapeutic technique of Holotropic Breathwork, which functioned as a substitute for psychedelic drugs.

Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, in 1954 researched LSD in Prague, and after 1967 he explored ketamine, and other methods for exhibiting non-ordinary states of consciousness like holotropic breathing.

Grof also suggests that many cathartic experiences within psychedelic states, while not necessarily crises, may be the effects of consciousness entering a perinatal space.

Likewise, Stanislav Grof suggested that painful and difficult experiences during a trip could be a result of the mind reliving experiences associated with birth, and that experiences of imprisonment, eschatological terror, or suffering far beyond anything imaginable in a normal state, if seen through to conclusion, often resolve into emotional, intellectual and spiritual breakthroughs.

Grof concluded that some near-death experiences are virtual recollection of birth memories, actual re-experiencing of parts of the process in symbolic form, and " movement towards the light tunnel being a memory or symbolic re-experience of being born: a memory of the ' near-birth experience '.

From observing many people in nonordinary and expanded states of consciousness, Grof developed what he considers to be a “ cartography ” of the psyche, which describes four main categories of experience.

In his book The Holotropic Mind, Grof ( 1992 ) separated this process into four stages known as the Perinatal Matrices:

* Basic Perinatal Matrices ( S. Grof ) excerpts from The Adventure of Self-Discovery

Perinatal: Along with most other Breathwork practitioners, and in disagreement with John Locke ’ s claim that the infant after birth is a tabula rasa, Grof believes that the birth process is a traumatic event that leaves powerful residue in the psyche ( see " Importance of the birth process " below ).

The municipality ( originally the parish ) is named after the old Grue farm ( Old Norse: Grof ( a )), since the first church was built there.

In 1969, Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof and Anthony Sutich were among the initiators behind the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, the leading academic journal in the field.

In the 1980s and 1990s the field developed through the works of such authors as Jean Houston, Stanislav Grof, Ken Wilber, Michael Washburn, Frances Vaughan, Roger Walsh, Stanley Krippner, Michael Murphy, Charles Tart, David Lukoff, Vasily Nalimov, Margret Rueffler and Stuart Sovatsky.

One of the demarcations in transpersonal theory is between authors who present a fairly linear and hierarchical model of human development, such as Timothy Leary and Ken Wilber, and authors who present non-linear models of human development, such as Michael Washburn and Stanislav Grof.

In contrast to Leary and Wilber, Michael Washburn and Stanislav Grof present models of human development that are not hierarchical or linear.

Grof applies regressional modes of therapy ( originally with the use of psychedelic substances, later with other methods ) in order to seek greater psychological integration.

* Grof, Stanislav & Grof, Christina ( eds ) ( 1989 ) Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis ( New Consciousness Reader ) Los Angeles: J. P Tarcher

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even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

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The parents compromised, however, on a convent school and Paula went to Ursuline Academy in London, Ontario.

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