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Integral Counseling Psychology Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Spring 2014 issue of ICP Newsletterhttps://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integralcounselingpsychologynewsletter/1004/thumbnail.jp
Amor and Psycho
No full textSet against a vast American landscape that ranges from Manhattan to the lush rain forests and marijuana farms of Northern California, these eleven stories dive into our darkest spaces, confronting the absurdity and poetry of human existence.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/1046/thumbnail.jp
Stanislav Grof Response and Audience Discussion II - October 25, 2014
No full textStan Grof responds to afternoon speakers and audience
Psychedelic Experiential Pharmacology: Pioneering Clinical Explorations with Salvador Roquet (How I Came to All of This: Ketamine, Admixtures and Adjuvants, Don Juan and Carlos Castaneda Too): An Interview with Richard Yensen
Get PDFRichard Yensen was a research fellow at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center from 1972 to 1976. He studied psychedelic psychotherapy with Stanislav Grof, M.D. and other senior staff. During this time he treated patients with substance abuse disorders, cancer, neurosis, and other health professionals seeking a training experience. Dr. Yensen did his Ph.D. dissertation on the use of MDA in psychotherapy with neurotic outpatients and conducted his research at the MPRC. Through many years of experience in governmentsanctioned psychedelic research, he has evolved a non-drug shamanistic psychotherapy called Perceptual Affective Therapy. In the 1990’s Richard was co-holder of IND 3250, an investigational new drug permit issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to study LSD and psychotherapy until 2006. He is currently a licensed psychologist in California and director of the Orenda Institute in Vancouver and Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada and president of the Salvador Roquet Psychosynthesis Association. He has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Spring 2014 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integrative-healthnewsletter/1027/thumbnail.jp
Journeys in Complexity: Autobiographical Accounts by Leading Systems and Complexity Thinkers
No full textIn this book, fascinating autobiographical accounts by leading scholars in a variety of fields and disciplines provide a rich introduction to the art and science of complexity and systems thinking. We learn how the authors\u27 interest in complexity thinking developed, the key figures and texts they encountered along the way, the experiences that shaped their path, their major works, and their personal journeys. This volume serves as an introduction to complexity as well as a vivid account of the personal and intellectual development of important scholars. Authors include Elisabet Sahtouris, Jay Ogilvy, Stanley Krippner, Albert Low, Riane Eisler, and Allan Leslie Combs. This book was originally published as a special issue of World Futures.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/1014/thumbnail.jp
Coming Full Circle: Holotropic Breathwork’s Contribution to Psychedelic Medicine
No full textInformed by Grof’s early pioneering research and clinical work with psychedelics, Holotropic Breathwork has offered thousands of people all around the world the opportunity to experience the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness without the aid of psychoactive substances. In turn, Grof Transpersonal Training, using Holotropic Breathwork as the experiential vehicle, has developed an extremely effective model that could play an important role in training a new generation of psychedelic therapists
The Consciousness Research of Stanislav Grof:
No full textThis presentation shows the import of Stanislav Grof’s consciousness research for recent debates in the study of mysticism and spirituality. Specifically, Grof’s research provides crucial empirical evidence to settle one of the most controversial issues in the modern study of mysticism—the question of mediation in spiritual knowledge Whereas Grof interprets his findings as supporting the perennial philosophy, [I propose that] a participatory account engenders a richer, more pluralistic, and arguably more spiritually emancipatory understanding of Grof’s revolutionary discoveries that is free from the shortcomings of perennialism
Unfolding Toward Being; Etty Hillesum and the Evolution of Consciousness
No full textThe ‘unfolding’ of Etty Hillesum’s developing consciousness is considered from an integral and ‘evolution of consciousness’ perspective. The work of several pioneers in the field is drawn upon: Sri Aurobindo, Indian yogi and sage; Jean Gebser, the European non-dual cultural theorist; and A.H. Almass and Karen Johnson, the developers of the Diamond Approach, an original, contemporary spiritual path geared toward the soul’s realization. This path combines Eastern teachings and practices with the concepts of Western depth psychology and sees development as occurring in spiraling and overlapping stages. Etty’s spiritual and psychological journey is examined in the context of these stages. Her evolutionary process is informed by the Diamond Approach’s method of inquiry, which is similar to Etty’s process of “hineinhorchen” or “hearkening” to herself. This exploration will offer a contemporary yet ancient perspective that tracks Etty Hillesum’s own radical evolution of consciousness that we glimpse in a mere ‘moment’ in time, that is, indeed, timeless