By Stanislav Grof
Publish 12 months note: initially released in 1975
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ENTHEOGENS
"An notable alchemical textual content that explores the colossal dimensions of internal adventure which have been missed and marginalized by means of the mainstream. It offers a framework that synthesizes the subconscious and primal drives that secretly impel us to behave. A must-read for all severe scholars of consciousness."
—Daniel Pinchbeck, writer of 2012: The go back of Quetzalcoatl and Breaking Open the Head
"Stanislav Grof is the undisputed global authority on LSD and the human psyche, and this ebook offers the simplest cartography of cognizance for figuring out the profound effect of entheogens at the mind."
—Alex gray, artist and writer of Sacred Mirrors and Transfigurations
Stanislav Grof's first 17 years of study into nonordinary states of realization caused by way of LSD and different psychedelics ended in a progressive figuring out of the human psyche. His study was once the impetus at the back of a greatly improved cartography of the subconscious, together with new nation-states nonetheless unacknowledged by way of authentic educational circles—the perinatal area, which holds thoughts of a number of the phases of delivery, and the transpersonal area, which mediates experiential id with different species and mythic figures, visits to archetypal nation-states, entry to previous lifestyles thoughts, and union with the cosmic artistic principle.
The examine provided during this booklet offers a map of the psyche that's crucial for figuring out such phenomena as shamanism and close to loss of life stories in addition to different nonordinary states of cognizance. This map has ended in the improvement of significant new remedies in psychiatry and psychology for treating psychological stipulations usually noticeable as sickness and accordingly suppressed by way of drugs. It additionally offers a brand new threshold to realizing and getting into the numinous realm of spirit.
STANISLAV GROF, M.D., is a psychiatrist who has been central investigator on the Psychiatric learn Institute in Prague, leader of Psychedelic study on the Maryland Psychiatric study heart, and assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins collage. he's now professor of psychology on the California Institute of critical reviews. His 20 books contain Beyond the Brain, Psychology of the Future, The Cosmic Genius, and Spiritual Emergency. He lives in California.
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Beginning at a certain levet this knowledge proceeds alone in a deductive manner without further need for experimental verification. 1. Two Types of Experience It has often been claimed, and the entire Anglo-Saxon school of logical positivism still claims, that only physical knowledge derives from experience. In contrast, logical-mathematical knowledge remains alien and constitutes a pure deductive mechanism or a simple "language" whose syntax and semantics do not originate in experiences but merely serve to describe them.
Only operations, which prolong actions by interiorizing them and rendering their coordinations reversible, lead to this understanding: Transformations do not transform everything but always imply an invariant element, hence a conservation. The results of this research into the development of images converge with those concerning perceptions. This enables us to confirm conclusions about the general relation of the figurative and operative aspects of the cognitive functions. It is now possible to maintain the following: 1.
1. 1. Causal Thinking. In all cases where an attempt has been made to derive a concept from the corresponding perceptions alone, it has been forgotten that it is not these two terms alone that are involved. There is a third term that is fundamental and constitutes the common origin: it is the complex of the sensorimotor structures, the reflex, the sensorimotor intelligence itself (which is established in the second half of the first year). For example, Michotte sought to explain the formation of the concept of cause by a phenomenon peculiar to perceptual causality, which he studied in detail as launching and pulling.