Pioneering consciousness researcher Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD, teaches that when the familiar begins to fade away — whether in birth, a major life transition, or dying — we may be moving through the same underlying process of struggle, surrender, and transformation.
Through decades of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness, Stan discovered that experiences of profound psychological and spiritual transformation often seem to follow a pattern remarkably similar to the journey of birth: wholeness gives way to dissolution, dissolution to struggle, struggle to surrender, and surrender ultimately to emergence into something new.
Recognizing this pattern can offer a powerful new way to understand the upheavals and transformations of your own life, and even reconsider what may happen as you approach the ultimate transition of death.
You’re invited to a special FREE online event exploring Stan’s understanding of the “Great Cycle” and the extraordinary parallels he discovered between the journey of birth, deep inner transformation, and the process of dying.
For more than 60 years, Stan Grof has been one of the world’s pioneering explorers of the human psyche, beginning with his groundbreaking clinical research with psychedelics and continuing through his work in transpersonal psychology and holotropic states of consciousness.
Stan will be joined by Brigitte Grof, whose decades of work with holotropic states offer firsthand insight into processes of surrender, death-and-rebirth, and transformation... Paul Grof MD, PhD, psychiatrist and researcher, who brings a clinical perspective to profound psychological change... and Jay Dufrechou, PhD, director of Grof Legacy Training USA, who will help connect Stan’s Great Cycle to the psychological and spiritual dimensions of birth, transformation, and dying.
Together, they’ll invite you into a radically different understanding of transition: not simply as something to fear or endure, but as a process that your consciousness may already know how to navigate.
You’ll explore the possibility that your own birth gave you an embodied experience of dissolution, struggle, surrender, and emergence — a primordial journey whose pattern can reappear throughout your life and may even offer a map for approaching death with greater ease, compassion, and trust.
Jay will guide you through an experiential meditation that will facilitate a kind of rebirthing process, inviting you to move through letting go and surrender into emergence and renewal, so you can experience for yourself what it can feel like to release what’s ending and open to what wants to be born.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to explore one of the central insights from Stan Grof’s lifetime of consciousness research alongside three people deeply connected to his work — and discover a map that may help you understand life’s greatest transitions not simply as endings, but as passages within a much larger cycle.
