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Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-exploration and Therapyby Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof Purchase Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-exploration and Therapy on Amazon.com
List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $13.57 See other featured books. Review from Esalen President Gordon Wheeler: "The prevailing materialistic culture has created a divided world, a world where the sacred is relegated to churches and temples, the body to the gym, mental health to pills from the pharmacy. Economic growth is pursued as if it had nothing to do with the environment, and ignorance, racism, and warfare continue to separate peoples and nations." Our experiential world is deeply, irreducibly suffused with integrative spirit - for which we have as many names as there are spirited seekers of this deeper personal and cultural healing. But you wouldn't know that from much of what we see in the media, in professional conferences on psychology and psychiatry, or from some of the other reductive perspectives in our culture, which often still seem to follow the model critiqued above by Jack Kornfield in his introduction to Holotropic Breathwork, the masterful new book from foundational Esalen teachers Stan and Christina Grof. With this volume, long and eagerly awaited, the Grofs give us at last the definitive overview of the work they created at Esalen and elsewhere beginning in the 1970's, now taught and practiced across the world. This work, again in Kornfield's words, is nothing less than a "psychology of the future," an integrative vision that draws on psychiatry, neurology, the study of consciousness and altered states, individual and transpersonal psychology, shamanism and cross-cultural studies, the deep insights of Jung, Campbell, and many others, and more. More than a history of Grof Breathwork and antecedent practices, more than a "how-to" and how it works (though it is all of that as well), the book offers an integrative map of consciousness, weaving all the above traditions of research and practice and more, into a radical new theory and method. This integral method, in the hands of the experienced practitioners the Grofs (and now their own students as well) have trained around the world over the years, can offer powerful, transformational experiences that open up new vistas of consciousness, new ways of being and experiencing connection and healing. In a real sense, the Grofs represent and carry forward all that Esalen has been about for the past 48 years: the healing of profound, damaging splits in our cultures and in our psyches (which in the end, must be the same thing). Changing our world, as the Grofs' work insists and demonstrates, requires changing our Consciousness. And changing our Consciousness, we know, is a matter of both singular, paradigm-shattering experiences, and also sustained, committed Practices. In the Grofs' lifetimes of pioneering work, and now in this summative volume, you will find perspectives and a radical methodology for making both those poles of transformation work, and work together.
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