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	Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science This book compiles articles from many presenters at the 1982 Bombay, India conference of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, including Swami Muktananda, Mother Teresa, Father Bede Griffiths, Jack Kornfield, Ajit mookerjee, Fritjof Capra, Rupert Sheldrake, Karl Pribram, Joseph Chilton Pearce, June Singer, Cecil E. Burney, Alyce M. and Elmer E. Green, and Claudio Naranjo.
	Beyond Death: The Gates of Consciousness (Art & Imagination) This is one in the Thames and Hudson series and includes 158 images, many in color, of ancient and modern art on the theme of death and rebirth. The text makes meaning of these images in light of the Grof's; research with non-ordinary states of consciousness and experiences of death and rebirth.
	Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy (Suny Series, Transpersonal & Humanistic Psychology) Grof’s book expands the traditional psychological paradigm to include perinatal and transpersonal theory and phenomena. This book includes drawings, case studies, and theories on the roots of some psychopathologies.
	Books of the Dead: Manuals for Living and Dying (Art and Imagination) This is one in the Thames and Hudson series and includes 148 images, 16 in color, and text elucidating the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Nahuatl Book of the Dead, the Ars Moriendi (Christian Book of the Dead), and the Mayan Book of the Dead, the Popul Vuh.
	“Holotropic Breathwork and the Hyperventilation Syndrome” in The Inner Door. Exploring Holotropic Breathwork: Selected Articles from a Decade of the Inner Door, edited by Kylea Taylor. This book collects 144 field reports from a widespread practice of contemporary, non-drug, altered-state work. These articles were first published from 1991-2002 by 85 authors, trained in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, M.D. The book includes a 21-page previously unpublished article by Stan Grof entitled, "Physical Manifestations of Emotional Disorders: Observations from the Study of Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness.
	Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution (SUNY Series in Transpersonal & Humanistic Psychology) A collection of papers on the subject of spiritual emergency and global crisis.
	LSD Psychotherapy This new edition provides a complete account of a remarkable chapter in the ever-continuing inquiry into our transpersonal nature and origins. Dr. Grof outlines a new cartography of the human mind, one which accounts for experiences such as shamanic trance, near-death experiences and altered states of consciousness. New Introduction by Albert Hofmann, Ph.D.
	Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) This book introduces Grof's enormous contributions to the fields of psychiatry and psychology, especially his central concept of holotropic experience, where holotropic signifies "moving toward wholeness." This book presents the core material of the Holotropic Breathwork™ Training program.
	Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research (Condor Books) Grof’s early book describing the experiences of his patients in research using LSD for therapeutic sessions.
	Spiritual Emergency (New Consciousness Reader) By Stanislav Grof, MD and Christina Grof Different teachers write chapters are written by on different aspects of spiritual emergency or existential crisis.
	The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration (SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) An experiential journey through Grof’s theories, illustrated with many of his own and his patients’ experiences in non-ordinary states.
	The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) Discusses the broadest philosophical, metaphysical, and spiritual insights gleaned in Grof’s research into human nature and reality, addressing the most fundamental questions human beings have asked about the nature of existence.
	The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives by Stanislav Grof with Hal Zina Bennett A primer of transpersonal theory.
	The Human Encounter with Death by Stanislav Grof, M.D. and Joan Halifax Grof describes the experiences of his patients in his research project using LSD therapeutically with terminal cancer patients.
	The Stormy Search for the Self by Christina Grof and Stanislav Grof. Christina Grof’s recounts her own kundalini opening and turbulent years of difficult integration. Describes various kinds of spiritual emergency phenomena and offers advice on how to integrate such an experience into daily life. This book contains a very good bibliography on each form of spiritual opening.
	The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death with a Foreword by Huston Smith, Ph.D. Dr. Grof offers a wealth of perspectives on how we can enrich and transform the experience of dying in our culture. In this book he discusses his own patients' experiences of death and rebirth in psychedelic therapy, investigates cross-cultural beliefs, paranormal and near-death research, and argues that, contrary to the predominant Western perspective, death is not necessarily the end of consciousness.
	When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-ordinary Reality Dr. Grof’s mesmerizing firsthand account of over 50 years of inquiry into waters uncharted by classical psychology will leave readers questioning the very fabric of our existence.
AUDIO
	The Transpersonal Vision: The Healing Potential of Nonordinary States of Consciousness A learning course (audio cassette)that covers all of Stanislav Grof’s principle lecture material. Comes with a 48-page booklet.
DVD/VHS
	Transpersonal Conversations: 6-DVD Special Edition Set! [DVD] A 6-part series of in-depth, cinema-quality documentary interviews with the founders and leaders of Transpersonal Psychology: Stanislav Grof, M. D., Charles, T. Tart, Ph. D., Frances Vaughan, Ph. D., Ralph Metzner, Ph. D. and others.
	Holotropic Breathwork: A conversation with Christina and Stanislav Grof, MD An armchair discussion with the Grofs about this technique and the effectiveness of using non-ordinary states for healing and spiritual practice. Run time is approximately 45 minutes.
	Healing Potential of Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness The DVD contains an armchair conversation regarding the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness.
	The Adventure of Self-Discovery - Thinking Allowed Video Collection What is the origin of individual behavior and personality? Stanislav Grof proposes that individuals have systems of condensed experience (COEX systems) which become anchored to aspects of the birth trauma. In Part I of this program, he describes four different basic stages of the birth process and shows how they relate to attitudes developed later in life. In Part II he discusses the development of his "holotropic" approach to therapy as an outgrowth of his early work with psychedelic drugs.
	The Cosmic Game - Thinking Allowed Video Collection Dr. Stan Grof makes the case that the experience of those in altered "holotropic" states—through psychedelic drugs or through certain breathing exercises—are virtually indistinguishable from classic mystical experiences. He maintains that the worldview cultivated in such states of consciousness says much about both the depths of the human psyche and about reality itself.
	Toward a New Paradigm of the Unconscious - Thinking Allowed Video Collection In extraordinary circumstances, the human mind is capable of accessing information from anywhere in time or space, according to evidence provided by Stanislav Grof, M.D.. Author of Realms of the Human Unconscious, Dr. Grof is an innovative psychotherapist who has attempted to integrate the divergent schools of Freud, Jung and Reich with insights from the leading edge of contemporary physics and biology.

The above books have been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Russian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Latvian, Estonian; Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

"I know of no work that so well incorporates the findings of Freud, Jung and Rank, adding fresh insights, which the methods of those psychotherapists could never have achieved. I do not doubt that many others working in this field would find Dr. Grof's discoveries a basis for a whole new strategy of research."

- Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces and Myths We Live By

"Stan Grof's The Cosmic Game is a profound and extremely important work, representing several decades of intensive research into non-ordinary states of consciousness. In the course of his research, he has accumulated an unprecedented amount of data, experience, and evidence on the extraordinary spectrum of consciousness, that he has summarized and presented in The Cosmic Game and made easily accessible for a wide and popular audience."

- Ken Wilbur, author of A Theory of Everything and Integral Psychology

"Stanislav Grof is the world's leading authority on the deep exploration of the mind and soul possible by guided use of psychedelic drugs and experiential psychotherapy. When he writes a book giving us the collective findings of this kind of exploration, struggling with many of the most important questions a human being can ask, this is a wonderful gift!"

- Charles Tart, Ph.D., author of States of Consciousness and Psi: Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm

"LSD Psychotherapy is a classic work in both psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological traditions, and I very much hope that Stan Grof´s experience and wisdom will find a new and wider readership in the new century."

- Andrew Weil, M.D.

"Stanislav Grof is probably the most brilliant mind in psychology today....The Holotropic Mind explains Grof's ideas in clear and simple language for the layperson. If you want to know about the psychology of the future today, read this book. It is about a revolution in our understanding of the mind that is as far-reaching in psychology as the idea of the quantum was to physics."

- Fred Alan WolF, Ph.D., physicist and author of Taking the Quantum Leap and The Eagle's Quest

"Each page of The Holotropic Mind bears witness to the brilliant and honest observations of Stanislav Grof, as he spearheads the vital task of charting the territory of the transpersonal realms."

- Jean Achterburg, Ph.D., author of Imagery in Healing and Woman As Healer.

"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 that has been proposed."

- Huston Smith, Ph.D., author of The World's Religions and Beyond the Post-Modern Mind.

"The most significant development in the recent history of depth psychology, and I believe the most important advance in the field since Freud and Jung themselves, has been the work of Stanislav Grof, which has not only revolutionized psychodynamic theory, but has also brought forth radical implications for many other fields as well, including philosophy."

- Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., psychologist and author of The Passion of the Western Mind

"Grof's work is the most important contribution to personality theory in several decades."

- Abraham Maslow, founder of Humanistic Psychology

"One of the most creative and brilliant phenomenologies and methodologies of the deeper psychodynamic process that I know of... A breakthrough work."

- Jean Houston, Ph.D. The Foundation for Mind Research