Stanislav Grof received an M.D. from Charles University, Prague (1956) and completed his Ph.D. in Medicine from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences (1965). He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology, and founding president of the International Transpersonal Association. For the past 35 years he has been conducting research on: the therapeutic and heuristic aspects of non-ordinary states of consciousness; the use of psychedelics and non-drug techniques in experiential psychotherapy; alternative approaches to psychoses; spiritual emergency and treatment of transpersonal crises; the implications for psychiatric theory and the emerging scientific paradigm of recent developments in quantum physics, information and systems theory, biology, brain research, and consciousness studies. Among his books are Realms of Human Consciousness (1976), Beyond the Brain (1988), and The Holotropic Mind (1992).

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