Psychology has for too long reduced us to our lowest common denominators. Much of the depth, power, and inspiration we experience at the core of our lives has been written off, with consciousness dismissed as a mere “epi-phenomenon” of the brain, and scientists focusing primarily on behavior and cognition.
Fortunately, research at the leading edge of psychology has opened a portal into an exciting new realm of possibilities that validates many of the insights of history’s great spiritual teachers — and leads us into a deeper, more accurate and empowering view of ourselves.
In this paradigm, consciousness is not limited to your body or even to your singular life. You can expand your identity to a cosmic scale, explore other dimensions, and access information from what appear to be past lives.
We are not limited by time, space, and causality in the way we once thought.
Dr. Stan Grof has been one of the earliest and most accomplished pioneers of these realms through his decades of legal research into the therapeutic use of psychedelics and his innovative understanding of non-ordinary states of consciousness based on experiential forms of psychotherapy, as well as studies of art, shamanism, and myth.
From this work has emerged a new “cartography” of the human psyche that accounts for our birth experiences as well as transpersonal domains more typically explored by shamans and healers.
By exploring these new understandings, you gain a deeper appreciation for your potential, a more profound vision for your life, and an expanded toolkit for clearing old traumas from both your psyche and body.
Grof’s brilliant mind and encyclopedic knowledge of the various schools of psychology enabled him to piece everything together into one coherent whole. Out of his many decades integrating the insights, research, and practices of transformational traditions from around the world, he’s developed a unique and empowering vision of the psychology of the future.
This view ultimately liberates you from limited ideas of who you truly are.
Join him for a unique hour to explore this new paradigm and its implications for your personal growth and any transformational work you may do with others.
Discovering the Psychology of the Future is a free event now playing through The Shift Network. Choose your preferred date and time to access the training with world-renowned psychiatrist and consciousness researcher, Stan Grof.
[Grof’s work] is the most important contribution to personality theory in several decades.
— Abraham Maslow, Founder of Humanistic Psychology
I do not doubt that others working in this field will find Dr. Grof’s discoveries a basis for a whole new strategy of research.
— Joseph Campbell, Author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Grof marshals an impressive array of data and speculation in support of the timely demand that Western science acknowledge consciousness and its many non-ordinary states.
— Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), PhD, Psychologist, spiritual teacher, and author of Be Here Now
Grof has had far and away more experience in psychedelic research than anyone else and has come up with the most comprehensive and helpful framework for interpreting the data in this bewildering area.
— Huston Smith , PhD, Author of The World’s Religions and Beyond the Post-Modern Mind
Dr. Grof’s positive message of universal spirituality, hardwired in the brain and unlocked during the mystical psychedelic state, should be front page news...
— Alex Grey, Visionary Artist and Co-founder of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
After Sigmund Freud, who introduced the unconscious, the libido and guilt... and Carl Gustav Jung, who introduced the collective unconscious and the archetypes; we now have Stanislav Grof, who widens the horizons by bringing in the perinatal and the transpersonal dimensions of human experience.
— Ervin Laszlo, Hungarian Philosopher of Science, Systems Theorist, and Editor of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution
Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD is a clinical psychiatrist with over 50 years experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by psychedelic substances and by experiential psychotherapy. He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology, and the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA).
He was formerly Principal Investigator in a psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Scholar-In-Residence at the Esalen Institute.
Stan currently teaches at the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and in the Grof Transpersonal Training (GTT). He writes and gives lectures, seminars and workshops worldwide.
He is the author of the books Psychology of the Future, LSD Psychotherapy, Beyond the Brain, The Cosmic Game, When the Impossible Happens, The Ultimate Journey, Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art, and co-author with Christina Grof of Holotropic Breathwork, Stormy Search for the Self, Spiritual Emergency, Beyond Death and over 150 scholarly articles.
