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"Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy"
by Stanislav and Christina Grof - Now Available! 

This new book provides the most comprehensive look yet at this profoundly healing technique - the “definitive overview of this transformative breathwork.” Published by Suny Press in hardcover and softcover editions.

From the Foreword by Jack Kornfield
“In Holotropic Breathwork, Stan and Christina have blended scientific and intellectual understanding, masculine and feminine, and ancient and post-modern wisdom, and made their work and training available on every continent. In time, I believe their contributions will be seen as a major gift to the field of psychology and to the healing of the world.”
Continue reading here.

Book Review
Embracing the Beyond Within: Birth and Transcendence in the New Psychology by Renn Butler
The long-awaited volume by Stanislav and Christina Grof is the first comprehensive text on the theory and practice of their new strategy of psychotherapy and self-exploration..this is sure to be a cherished addition to the libraries of intelligent seekers around the world and one of the most influential books of the decade. Read the review.

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Traduzione in Italiano alla Prefazione del libro "Respirazione Olotropica: un nuovo approccio alla terapia e all'auto-esplorazione " di Stanislav Grof e Cristina Grof
http://www.olotropica.com/RO-terapia-autoesplorazione.StanislavGrof.html

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Featured Articles & Presentations

"The Consciousness Revolution" - Opening Talk by Stanislav Grof for the Seventeenth International Transpersonal Conference held in Moscow on June 23-27, 2010.
Due to technical difficulties and time constraints, only an abbreviated version was presented at the Conference.

"The Consciousness Revolution: New Perspectives in Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy"
Full version of a paper presented in an abridged form by Dr. Grof at the Seventeenth International Transpersonal Conference in Moscow on June 24, 2010. (PDF/37 pages.)

"How Stanislav Grof Helped Launch the Dawn of a New Psychedelic Research Era"
by Alexander Zaitchik (April 2010) http://www.AlterNet.com
 

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New Audio and Video

"Implications of Psychedelic Research for Psychology & Psychiatry"
A talk given by Dr. Grof at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century 2010 Conference sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). http://www.maps.org/videos/source/video7.html

"Learning from Non-Ordinary States" - an interview by Tami Simon, Sounds True, Insights at the Edge August 24, 2010. (PDF/17 pages). Audio version at http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/?p=1977

Click here to visit the Video & Audio Library

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Stanislav Grof Receives Prestigious VISION 97 Award

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.

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"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).

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.

Related Resources:

Read an article about the 2008 Award in the Association for Humanistic Psychology Newsletter, Perspectives, February/March 2010, pgs. 20-21.

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
 

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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