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Stan Grof and Holotropic Breathwork (tm) were mentioned in an article in The New Yorker. The article was about CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey: "During this period, Mackey sought succor in spiritual practice. He engaged a friend, a follower of the Czech transpersonal psychologist Stanislav Grof, to guide him through a therapeutic session of holotropic breathing. “I had this very powerful session, very powerful. It lasted about two hours,” Mackey said in an inspirational CD set he released last year called Passion and Purpose: The Power of Conscious Capitalism.” Read more at the New Yorker website.



Featured Article

2012 and Human Destiny: End of the World or Consciousness Revolution? - "2012 Now" Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado - May 29, 2009 (PDF/34 pages). Translated into Italian at http://www.olotropica.com/2012-e-destino-umano-1-.html



New Events

April 18 , 2010
Dr. Grof will be presenting at the "Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century Conference", an International Conference open to Physicians, other Therapeutic and Medical Professionals, and the General Public. Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credits available.

June 7-11, 2010
"Implications of Modern Consciousness Research for Psychiatry and Psychology"
Stan will conduct a 2-credit course for California Institute of Integral Studies, (CIIS), which will be open to general public for for auditing.

June 23–27, 2010
Dr. Grof will be presenting at the "17th International Transpersonal Conference: “Consciousness Revolution: Transpersonal Discoveries That Are Changing the World" in Moscow.
The Conference will present a comprehensive overview of the forty years of the transpersonal paradigm through the voices of its founders and pioneers and outline its future perspectives. The goal is to gather 1000+ participants from more than 50 countries and numerous keynote speakers and spiritual teachers.

October 16-17, 2010
Dr. Grof will be presenting "Psychology of the Future, Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research" at a seminar organized by IRETT, a Transpersonal Training Institute in France.
Click here to read an Interview with Stan Grof by Stephane Allix and Paul Bernstein for the Magazine of the The Institute for Research on Extraordinary Experiences, INREES, France - copyright INREES 2008.

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New Audio

Lectures presented by Dr. Grof in German and French posted to this site in December 2009:

"Le potentiel curative et heuristique des états modifiés de conscience" - Sorbonne University, June 1992 in Paris. (French language)

"Pforten der Wahrnehmung" (Doors of Perception), January 2008 in Basel, Switzerland (German language)

"Weltkongreß Astrologie zu hören" (World Congress of Astrology), April 2004 in Basel, Switzerland (German Language)

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Stanislav Grof Receives Prestigious VISION 97 Award



Stan Grof accepting the Vision 97 Havel award in Prague.Stanislav Grof, M.D., psychiatrist, author andconsciousness researcher, and one who pioneered the development of Transpersonal Psychology, accepted the prestigious VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007.

The foundation’s philanthropic mission supports cultural and social projects and ground-breaking prototypes with the potential to bring meaningful change to the future.

Former recipients of the annual VISION 97 award include Karl Pribram, American neurosurgeon and thinker, Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor, psychologist Phillip G. Zimbardo, MIT professor of computer science and pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Joseph Weizenbaum, and semiotician and writer Umberto Eco.

Click here to access Stan Grof's newest overview and collection of his life's work and thought. (288-page PDF file), Václav Havel's speech at the Award Ceremony, and Dr. Grof's acceptance speech.


"Diamond Arch-Delusional Boulder" Award Presented to Dr. Grof

As it is often the case with paradigm-breaking ideas, Stanislav Grof's research has been highly controversial. It has received many compliments from prominent scientists of various disciplines, as well as strong criticism and even ridicule. This can be illustrated by the response to his work by the academic circles in his native country, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).

Delusional Boulder Awards In 2007, he received the prestigious Award >Vision 97< from the Foundation started by the Czech ex-president Vaclav Havel and his wife Dagmar. Seven years earlier, in the year 2000, he received a mock award called the "Delusional Boulder" from the Prague Sisyphus Club (a group of scientistic Czech academicians and self-appointed arbiters of the purity of science similar to the American CSICOP Group). Read more about this award in English. Read in Czech.

In 2008, the members of the board of the Sisyphus Club concluded that Stanislav Grof's ideas were so outrageous and ridiculous that they created for him a special category - the "Diamond Arch-Delusional Boulder."

Read more about this award in English. Read in Czech.

http://www.sysifos.cz/index.php?id=vypis&sec=1154533007 (Czech language site)

Click here to read an excerpt from Dr. Grof's book "When the Impossible Happens", where he describes his experience with Carl Sagan, the founder of CSICOP, an organization very similar to the Sisyphos Club.

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." ~ Albert Einstein
 

Press Inquiries

Stan Grof is available in the San Francisco Bay Area, California for lectures, conference presentations, clinical trainings, workshops, and for telephone or video feed interviews. He will occasionally travel to present at conferences and leads workshops and trainings in the U.S. and internationally, through Grof Transpersonal Training. Interviews and speaking engagements can sometimes be coordinated with those events.

Contact:  Alia Moore
E-Mail: pr@stanislavgrof.com