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Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD – When the Impossible Happens – The Evolution of Psychology Beyond its Cradle
My friend and collaborator in this dialogue, Dr. Stanislav Grof, stands very prominently in the line of C.G. Jung, James Hillman, Abraham Maslow, and others who have in very extensive and well-documented case studies taken psychology and psychiatry well beyond the conventional borders and confines of its cradle into the vastly expanded world we can now see unfolding within and all around us.& It has been the expanding premise of Living Dialogues from its own inception that the evolution of a new worldview is progressively beginning to dawn in human consciousness, birthed by a co-creative planetary sharing.& Hence we say “Dialogue is the Language of Evolutionary Transformation”TM.& Jonas Salk said in the latter part of the 20th century that we are entering a new “metabiological stage” of evolution.& We’re beginning to pay attention to consciousness itself and its origin, and realizing in many, many different ways as we join with many, many different pioneers that consciousness is not some accidental byproduct of the physical mass of the brain -- but, quite the contrary, consciousness is the very stuff and substance of existence itself.& And so, in that larger perspective, what we’re really about is I think an initiatic crisis of the species, of the human being itself -- needing to go beyond the old conventional, narrowly reductive and “monisticly” materialistic scientific models of what we understand reality to be.& Although not yet penetrated into the general mainstream culture, quantum physics and discoveries in the biological and other sciences in the last 80 years have already greatly changed and expanding our models of reality.& In his “opening the veil” on the psyche in the West in the late 19th and early part of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud was a pioneer then, but his attempt to put his insights into the “hard science” mold of the day kept them confined in the box of the personal biography, with a somewhat mechanistic model of his categories of id, ego and superego.& Where we have gone since and where we go next on this amazing journey is the subject of this dialogue.& And stay tuned in the next two weeks here on Living Dialogues for a continuation of these themes with our mutual friend and fellow consciousness pioneer, Richard Tarnas.
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By Duncan CampbellMy friend and collaborator in this dialogue, Dr. Stanislav Grof, stands very prominently in the line of C.G. Jung, James Hillman, Abraham Maslow, and others who have in very extensive and well-documented case studies taken psychology and psychiatry well beyond the conventional borders and confines of its cradle into the vastly expanded world we can now see unfolding within and all around us.& It has been the expanding premise of Living Dialogues from its own inception that the evolution of a new worldview is progressively beginning to dawn in human consciousness, birthed by a co-creative planetary sharing.& Hence we say “Dialogue is the Language of Evolutionary Transformation”TM.& Jonas Salk said in the latter part of the 20th century that we are entering a new “metabiological stage” of evolution.& We’re beginning to pay attention to consciousness itself and its origin, and realizing in many, many different ways as we join with many, many different pioneers that consciousness is not some accidental byproduct of the physical mass of the brain -- but, quite the contrary, consciousness is the very stuff and substance of existence itself.& And so, in that larger perspective, what we’re really about is I think an initiatic crisis of the species, of the human being itself -- needing to go beyond the old conventional, narrowly reductive and “monisticly” materialistic scientific models of what we understand reality to be.& Although not yet penetrated into the general mainstream culture, quantum physics and discoveries in the biological and other sciences in the last 80 years have already greatly changed and expanding our models of reality.& In his “opening the veil” on the psyche in the West in the late 19th and early part of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud was a pioneer then, but his attempt to put his insights into the “hard science” mold of the day kept them confined in the box of the personal biography, with a somewhat mechanistic model of his categories of id, ego and superego.& Where we have gone since and where we go next on this amazing journey is the subject of this dialogue.& And stay tuned in the next two weeks here on Living Dialogues for a continuation of these themes with our mutual friend and fellow consciousness pioneer, Richard Tarnas.