This interview focuses on the many controlling loops in which we are embedded.

Here he describes the fifteen year process of documenting the UFO sighting that occurred at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, in 1994.

Stanislav Grof has been a professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.  With his wife, Christine, he is founder of Grof Holotropic Training. He is author of Beyond the Brain, LSD Psychotherapy, The Adventure of Self Discovery and The Cosmic Game. 

Here he describes Chinese culture’s historical interest in the paranormal, contemporary developments, psychic education of children in China, personal experiences of high strangeness, and his own theoretical model to explain his many observations.

In this video from 2017, he suggests that the human condition has always been tragic and will remain so — because all humans carry within themselves a burden of unrecognized rage and false beliefs. The best way to cope with tragedy, he maintains, is to engage in a process of illuminating and modifying these false [...]

Ruth-Inge Heinze is author of Trance and Healing in Southeast Asia Today and Shamans of the Twentieth Century. She describes shamans as experts in the use of altered states of consciousness and sacred rituals in the service of their communities. She discusses her fieldwork with over a hundred shamans in both urban and rural settings.

This wide-ranging conversation covers many of the essential conundrums we have in society today.