The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration (SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) @ richardeward.com

The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration (SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
by Stanislav Grof
from State University of New York Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Inner Journey's.
  Stanislav Grof, having researched the human psyche for 20 years with various psychedelic substances has now for the past 30 years been using Holotropic Breathing to bring about the same experiences in his patients. Grof uses these experiences to create his model of the human psyche. This model also deals with space/time and the paranormal showing that Grof is by far, the world's premier inner explorer.
  Holotropic Breathwork, which is more or less Hyperventilating while listening to certain music in a... more info

• The Most Brilliant Investigator in History
  I have to respond to Zosimos review below. The therapeutic technique Grof has been using since the 70's, is not original to him. It is derived from the tradition of Kundalini yoga, and his observations from research conducted both at the Prague Psychiatric Research Center, and Spring Grove Hospital, in Spring Grove, MD. His sessions with "holotropic breathwork" is very similar to "gestalt psychotherapy", involving elements of Reichian body work, combined witht he Kundalini technique of rapid breathing. The... more info

• Hyperventilation as a Therapy Towards Wholeness and Healing
  In THE ADVENTURE OF SELF-DISCOVERY, Stanislav Grof, M.D., tells how group hyperventilation is a "powerful and effective method of stress reduction and leads to emotional and psychosomatic healing" (p. 176).
  The typical hyperventilation session begins with physical and emotional tensions surfacing. Continued fast, deep breathing brings intensification of physical and emotional pain until the suffering reaches a climax, followed by sudden release, with subsequent deep relaxation and even bliss. During... more info

• One of his best
  I can see where Stan got a lot of his material for the Holotropic Mind. Among being fairly repetitive of his other works it does have a good description of the wide range of Transpersonal type experiences as well as a pretty good description of his Holotropic Breathwork. Also describes Stan's BPM stages as does the Holotropic Mind.

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