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

00:00 Introduction

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. 

In this multi-faceted interview he looks at the power of crystals in alchemy and multi-dimensional communication as well as the damaging effects of crystallized mentation.

Here he shares his theoretical model of reality that can account for paranormal phenomena of high strangeness.

Judith Orloff is on the UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty.  She is also a practicing clairvoyant and is author of Second Sight. Here she describes her own struggle coming to terms with her psychic abilities while establishing herself in a psychiatric career — where claims of psychic functioning are often viewed as signs of mental illness. 

In this video from 2017, he describes how he came to develop an approach to self-realization that combines philosophy and psychotherapy. He began this work when he was hired, while still a student, to counsel alcoholics. He discovered that most problems originate in an early childhood event, not particularly traumatic, when adults would stifle a [...]