Healing our deepest wounds. Holotropic paradigm shift

Stanislav Grof received widespread recognition as the founder and theorist of transpersonal psychology, and its innovative studies of unusual states of consciousness are an important contribution to the understanding of the nature of consciousness and healing.
In the final book, Grof offered readers an invisible amount of data, experiences and facts about the unusual states of consciousness collected by him during more than half a century research.
"Holotropic experiences play an important role in the shamanic initiation crises, in the healer ceremonies and rituals of the transition in the native cultures and in various types of systematic spiritual practice - yoga, Buddhist or Taoist meditation, Sufism and Kabbalah techniques, Isichiasis. In addition, they were described in the literature concerning the ancient mysteries of death and the revival, which were delivered in honor of different gods in the Mediterranean and other regions of the world. In everyday life, holotropic experiences may occur in situations of proximity to death or spontaneously, without any explicit reason. Provided proper understanding and support, the holotropic states have an extraordinary heuristic, healing, transforming and even evolutionary potential. - Stanislav Grof