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This comprehensive guide explores the transformative practice of breathwork, detailing its techniques, benefits, and applications. It offers insights into how breathwork can enhance physical and mental well-being, promote emotional healing, and foster spiritual growth. The book serves as an essential resource for both beginners and experienced practitioners, providing practical exercises and expert advice to deepen the reader's understanding and practice of breathwork.

This comprehensive work is a tour de force through the worlds of psychology, psychotherapy, Holotropic Breathwork, maps of the psyche, birth, sex, and death, transpersonal experiences, psychospiritual death and rebirth, reincarnation, karma, mystical states, archetypes, spiritual emergency, art, artists, and higher creativity. Grof reviews the history of depth psychotherapy, the important revisions that are needed to make it more effective, and why the inner quest is such an essential activity.

This comprehensive work is a tour de force through the worlds of psychology, psychotherapy, Holotropic Breathwork, maps of the psyche, birth, sex, and death, transpersonal experiences, psychospiritual death and rebirth, reincarnation, karma, mystical states, archetypes, spiritual emergency, art, artists, and higher creativity. Grof reviews the history of depth psychotherapy, the important revisions that are needed to make it more effective, and why the inner quest is such an essential activity.

Redesigned and reformatted for a new generation of readers, this classic series provides illustrated introductions by distinguished writers and scholars to the worlds of mythology, symbols, and sacred traditions.

Dr. Grof's extensive research on consciousness reveals that the roots of trauma often stem from birth experiences or unresolved historical events embedded in the collective unconscious. These unresolved issues manifest in individuals or groups connected to the past. Traditional therapies that focus solely on personal history or medication fail to address these deeper psychological wounds. Dr. Grof explores societal issues like violence and greed, suggesting that the fear and aggression prevalent among individuals and groups may largely arise from the unconscious expression of unresolved historical traumas. Despite this, he offers a hopeful perspective: there are therapeutic methods that utilize a specific non-ordinary state of consciousness, allowing individuals to access and heal these deep-seated traumas. He refers to this state as Holotropic, meaning “oriented toward wholeness.” Dr. Grof outlines various techniques to achieve this Holotropic state, emphasizing Holotropic Breathwork, which he developed with his partner Christina, and psychedelic therapy, which he pioneered in the 1950s and is now being revisited in clinical research for treating addictions and PTSD.

The definitive overview of this transformative breathwork.

Stanislav Grof's first 17 years of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics led to a revolutionary understanding of the human psyche. His research was the impetus behind a vastly expanded cartography of the unconscious, including two new realms still unacknowledged by official academic circles--the perinatal domain, which holds memories of the various stages of birth, and the transpersonal domain, which mediates experiential identification with other species and mythic figures, visits to archetypal realms, access to past life memories, and union with the cosmic creative principle. The research presented in this book provides a map of the psyche that is essential for understanding such phenomena as shamanism and near death experiences as well as other non-ordinary states of consciousness. This map has led to the development of important new therapies in psychiatry and psychology for treating mental conditions often seen as disease and therefore suppressed by medication. It also provides a new threshold to understanding and entering the numinous realm of spirit.

Beyond personal history and archetypal themes, a comprehensive psychology must address the significance of birth and death. Stanislav Grof, M.D., known for his pioneering work on the psychological and spiritual aspects of birth, now shares insights from over fifty years of research into death and dying. He distills teachings from ancient wisdom and modern science on how to confront death. This ultimate journey is a profound challenge, influencing our approach to life and death. Those who engage in deep self-exploration often develop a sense of planetary citizenship, reverence for all forms of life, and a universal spirituality. Such radical inner transformation may be humanity's best hope for survival. The text explores ancient and aboriginal rituals and spiritual practices that illuminate the experience of death, offering ways to ease the dying process and integrate it meaningfully into life. It also summarizes contemporary studies that provide new perspectives on phenomena related to death, including psycho-spiritual death and rebirth, near-death experiences, and the expanded cartography of the psyche derived from Grof's extensive research in psychedelic therapy, Holotropic Breathwork, and spontaneous psychospiritual crises.

Feelings of oneness with other people, nature, and the universe. Encounters with extraterrestrials, deities, and demons. Out-of-body experiences and past-life memories. Science casts a skeptical eye. But Dr. Stanislav Grof—the psychiatric researcher who co-founded transpersonal psychology—believes otherwise. When the Impossible Happens presents Dr. Grof’s mesmerizing firsthand account of over 50 years of inquiry into waters uncharted by classical psychology, one that will leave readers questioning the very fabric of our existence. From his first LSD session that gave him a glimpse of cosmic consciousness to his latest work with Holotropic Breathwork, When the Impossible Happens will amaze readers with vivid explorations of topics such as: • "Temptations of a Non-Local Universe"—experiments in astral projection • "Praying Mantis in Manhattan" and other tales of synchronicity • "Trailing Clouds of Glory"—remembering birth and prenatal life • "Dying and Beyond"—survival of consciousness after death Here is an incredible opportunity to journey beyond ordinary consciousness—guaranteed to shake the foundations of what we assume to be reality—and sure to offer a new vision of our human potential, as we contemplate When the Impossible Happens.

Summarizes Grof's experiences and observations from more than forty years of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness.