Description: This pioneering book explores the landscape of human consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics. Author Stanislav Grof shows the relationship between shamanism, near-death experiences, and other mystical and altered states with those induced by psychedelics.
Brief description: Stanislav Grof, M.D., is a psychiatrist who has been principal investigator at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Chief of Psychedelic Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, and assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. He is now professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His 20 books include Beyond the Brain, Psychology of the Future, The Cosmic Genius, and Spiritual Emergency. He lives in California. In 2019, Stanislav Grof was cited as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World" according to Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.
Review Quotes: "The most significant development in the recent history of depth psychology, and the most important advance in the field since Freud and Jung themselves, has been the work of Stanislav Grof."-- "Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., author of The Passion of the Western Mind"