VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1 SPRING 2015

REVISION AND RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE LEGACY OF PSYCHOLOGY FROM A HALF CENTURY OF CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH Stanislav Grof Received September 22 2014 - Revised November 12 2014 - November 26 2014 Abstract Drawing on observations from more than fifty years of research into an important subgroup of non-ordinary states of consciousness that he calls “holotropic”, the author suggests a revision of some basic assumptions of modern psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. The proposed changes involve the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter, dimensions of the human psyche, the roots of emotional and psychosomatic disorders, and therapeutic strategy. In the light of the new observations, spirituality appears to be an essential attribute of the human psyche and of existence in general. An important and controversial subject that could be only tangentially addressed in the context of this paper is the importance of archetypal psychology and astrology for consciousness research. Keywords Transpersonal psychology, archetypal psychology, holotropic states of consciousness, consciousness research, cartography of human psyche Spirituality Studies 1 (1) Spring 2015 3 (1)

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