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Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transendence in Psychotherapy (Suny Series, Transpersonal & Humanistic Psychology)
by Stanislav Grof
from State University of New York Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Not for the faint-hearted
  I can't say I'm as enthusiastic about this book as all the other reviewers are. I read this shortly after finishing Grof's book "LSD Psychotherapy", which I found to be an interesting, even excellent, read. "Beyond the Brain" certainly has exciting ideas in it, and is a strong attempt to look at the idea of consciousness in a new light. Grof has much to say about the Newtonian-Cartesian worldview, and makes plain its deficiencies in relation to our concept of the human mind. The book is well researched and... more info

• Plenty of nuggets in the goldfield
  This book is a bit like a gold mine. There are plenty of nuggets there, but I also found a lot of gravel. I'm no psychotherapist, and I do buy into the concept of a holographic universe and transendental consciousness, which is heady stuff indeed, but the insistance that almost all psychological issues are tied in with birth trauma (perinatal matrices), and the constant references to LSD studies got a bit tiresome after a time. I found the summary of the major (historical) contributors to the field of... more info

• A NEW VIEW OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE AND ITS POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH
  BEYOND THE BRAIN presents the distilled essence of the lifework of Stanislav Grof, M.D.: the insights and conclusions he has come to as a result of his seventeen years as a
  pioneering LSD psychotherapist.
  The opening chapter explores the convergence of modern physics with ancient mysticism, and the resulting radical implications for human psychology, thus setting the stage for the rest of the book.
  Chapter two, "Dimensions of the Human Psyche: Cartography of Inner Space," describes the... more info

• Challenges the existing paradigm
  

  
  I first encountered Stanislav Grof in the late 'seventies at a seminar held in Pacific Grove, California. He was a featured speaker, and to say that I was impressed would be an understatement.

  In this book, he speaks of paradigms--the model of reality that scientists work within, accepting certain basic assumptions. He points out that the Newtonian/Cartesian paradigm (a system of thought based on the work of Isaac Newton and Rene Descartes) is still accepted and the orthodox foundation of... more info

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