Psychonautica 58 - Stanislav Grof, psychology of the future

[maxfreakout]

In this week's installment of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays the first half of a 2 part talk from Stanislav Grof at the world psychedelic forum called 'psychology of the future, lessons from modern consciousness research'. Grof talks about the similarities between themes encountered in perinatal experiences and state propaganda, the meaning of snakes and spiders in perinatal experiences, the therapeutic, transformative and evolutionary potential of holotropic experiences, the artwork of H.R Giger and its connection to the perinatal matrices, creating a cartography of the human psyche, the conflict between Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank over the importance of the birth trauma for psychopathology, the importance of the perinatal matrices for the cartography of the psyche, the trauma of birth, the 4 perinatal matrices, holistic views in esoteric systems, the relation between parts and the whole, holography and transcending boundaries, systems of condensed experience, healing mechanisms in transpersonal experiences, Grof's 'interview with the devil', modern psychiatry and its lack of a category for transpersonal experiences, unorthodox psychiatry and disputes between different schools of therapeutic theory.



Playlist: Gotam Project - Sufism

DOWNLOAD HERE:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/dopecast/ ... ica058.mp3

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

We still have this one on video somewhere. Was it Stan Grof or was it Ralph Metzner who shortlly discussed possible applications of transit astrology in psychedelic research?

Here's another (shorter) lecture by Stanislav Grof: link