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"LILLIBIT'S DREAM" by Melody Sullivan. Illustrated by Stanislav Grof

Click here to see a one-minute Video Trailer

“I want to FLY!” Lillibit, the caterpillar, declares. But how will she fly? After all, she is not yet a butterfly, and the other caterpillars don’t believe she can do it. “Lillibit wiggled and squiggled. She jerked and jiggled. But still nothing happened.” In fact, it will take something greater than her best efforts to fly. It will take her letting go of everything she knows. For only within the mystical brew of metamorphosis will she leave her old life behind and begin a new one.

Certain to appeal to children and adults alike, Lillibit’s Dream takes readers on a heartfelt journey of big dreams, profound changes, and the gifts of acceptance, patience and faith. With easy, engaging language and charming, vibrant illustrations, author Melody Sullivan and illustrator Stanislav Grof deliver a beautiful analogy for life’s transitions and the miracles of personal transformation. Click here to learn more and purchase.

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THE LUMENARIUM - A Tribute Banquet to Honor Stanislav & Christina Grof

On December 10, Rick Doblin and MAPS.org organized this special event honoring the Grofs attended by friends, leaders and luminaries. For this occasion, Alex Grey painted a portrait of Stan, featuring Christina. The third person in the photo below is Eli Morgan.

Click here to view an edited version of the tribute dinner (7 minutes 36 seconds) on YouTube.
 

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"Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy"
by Stanislav and Christina Grof  (Purchase at Books & Media)

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.

Read the Foreword by Jack Kornfield

Read the Review by Renn Butler - Embracing the Beyond Within: Birth and Transcendence in the New Psychology

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/Resp.olotropica-teoria-pratica-autoesplorazione.StanislavGrof.html

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Spring 2011: Stanislav Grof on The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People List by Watkins Books (London)  Published in the Spring issue #26 of the Watkins Review, an esoteric magazine published by Watkins Books. See the list here.

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Featured Articles & Presentations

Dieter Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmüller: Albert Hofmann und sein LSD: Ein bewegtes Leben und eine bedeutende Entdeckung. (Albert Hofmann and his LSD: Exciting Life and Important Discovery).

Foreword by Stanislav Grof (PDF). Baden: AT-Verlag . April 2011. (in print)

"The Visionary World of H.R.Giger" - 2011 (PDF/54 pages)
"Le monde visionnaire de H.R. Giger" - 2011 (PDF/60 pages)
"Die visionäre Welt von HR Giger" - 2011 (PDF/55 pages)

"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

New! Stanislav Grof: Researcher, Author, Teacher, and Visionary - An Elgin Production DVD (77 minutes)

This documentary traces Stan’s phenomenal fifty-year career as consciousness researcher from his early research on psychedelics, to the birth of the transpersonal movement, to Holotropic Breathwork. Highlights include Grof’s first psychedelic experience and its impact on his life and career, his days at Esalen Institute as a Scholar-in-Residence, and his insights into non-ordinary states and their potential for healing and transformation. Included are interviews with Stan, his wife and partner Christina Grof, and UCI researcher Charles Grob, MD, and archival photographs with friends, colleagues, and prominent teachers and visionaries. Click here to view trailer.


An Interview with Stanislav Grof, M.D., on "Transpersonal Psychology and the Meaning of Psychedelic Experience" by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. The Wise Counsel Podcast - March 31, 2011. Available as podcast and text.

"Implications of Psychedelic Research for Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychotherapy."
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). (1 hour: 29 minutes) 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