Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof
Stanislav "Stan" Grofis a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche. Grof received the VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Václav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 July 1931
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associated effects process similarity
There is a similarity between the LSD effects and the experiences associated with the process of dying.
psychosis brain toxic
LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.
mass-destruction greed humanity
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
unbiased investigation scientism
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.