About the Book
The legendary researcher Stanislav Grof shares his most memorable encounters with the mysteries of human consciousness and non-ordinary realities--in a new updated edition.
Psychedelic awakenings. Out-of-body and near-death experiences. Archetypal forces, deities, and shamanic healings. Conventional science casts a skeptical eye. But Dr. Stanislav Grof--the psychiatric researcher who cofounded transpersonal psychology--believes otherwise. When the Impossible Happens presents Dr. Grof's astonishing firsthand recollections spanning his decades of inquiry into waters uncharted by the materialist worldview. From his first LSD session that gave him a glimpse of cosmic consciousness to his latest work with Holotropic Breathwork(R), this groundbreaking explorer's incredible-yet-true stories will enthrall readers with insights and actual events that shed light on: - The wonder and significance of "impossible" coincidences
- Evidence-supported memories from prenatal life, past lives, and our ancestors
- Living, dying, and beyond--the survival of consciousness after death
- Compelling cases of psychic phenomena, and much more When the Impossible Happens invites us on a kaleidoscopic odyssey into our vast and untapped potentials--and the true nature of reality itself. This updated edition includes a new chapter on synchronicities and psychedelics research, with a new foreword by Dr. James Fadiman. Content (Main Topics): Part 1) The Mystery of Synchronicity: Twilight of the Clockwork Universe
Part 2) Trailing Clouds of Glory: Remembering Birth and Prenatal Life
Part 3) Revisiting History: Farther Reaches of Human Memory (familial and ancestral memory)
Part 4) Have We Lived Before? Reincarnation, Past-Life Memories, and the Akashic Record
Part 5) ESP and Beyond: Exploring the World of the Paranormal
Part 6) Unorthodox Psychiatry: Surprising Alternatives to Traditional Treatment
Part 7) Transpersonal Psychology and Mainstream Science
About the Author:
Stanislav Grof, MD, is a psychiatrist with more than 60 years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness and is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology.
He has published more than 160 articles in professional journals and many books, including
LSD: Doorway to the Numinous;
Beyond the Brain;
LSD Psychotherapy;
The Cosmic Game;
Psychology of the Future;
The Ultimate Journey;
When the Impossible Happens;
Books of the Dead;
Healing Our Deepest Wounds;
Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art;
Beyond Death;
The Stormy Search for the Self;
Spiritual Emergency; and
Holotropic Breathwork (the last four with Christina Grof).
In 1969, Dr. Grof became assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and continued his research as chief of psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in Catonsville, Maryland. In 1973, he was invited as scholar-in-residence to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he developed, with his late wife Christina Grof, Holotropic Breathwork(R), an innovative form of experiential psychotherapy that is now being used worldwide.
Dr. Grof is the founder of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA) and for several decades served as its president. Currently, Dr. Grof is professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, California.
In August 2019, Dr. Grof released an encyclopedia of his life's work,
The Way of the Psychonaut, and in October 2020 the companion documentary film,
The Way of the Psychonaut: Stanislav Grof's Journey of Consciousness. (thewayofthepsychonaut.com)
In May 2020, with his wife Brigitte Grof, he launched the international Grof(R) Legacy Training, their new program for working with holotropic states of consciousness, transpersonal psychology, Holotropic Breathwork, and spiritual emergence. (grof-legacy-training.com)
Since April 2016, he has been happily married to Brigitte Grof. They live together in Germany and California and conduct seminars and workshops worldwide. Learn more at stangrof.com.
