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. 

The cosmos is the fertile field from which we humans and the planet earth were bom. In another sense the cosmos is the field of our mind onto which we project our dreams and myths. Richard Grossinger is author of Planet Medicine and The Night Sky. The scientific worldview, he says, for all its beauty [...]

In this video from 2017, he describes a wide variety of personal encounters with the paranormal that he experienced during his 32 years of service in the United States Army. Many of his investigations were conducted with the support of the commanding general of the Army Intelligence and Security Command. The experiences recounted include UFOs, [...]

Ilana Rubenfeld, founder and director of the Rubenfeld Synergy Center in Manhattan, describes how she learned to “listen with her hands” to the language of the body.  She developed her unique approach, when she discovered that neither body work nor psychotherapy alone were able to address the whole person.

In this 2017 video, he maintains that meditation is the single best practice from which any person can derive benefit. He notes that there are now over a thousand scientific papers describing both the mental and biological benefits of meditation. He claims that, while almost all religious cultures offer some sort of meditative practice, it [...]

In this video he describes his evolution from a psychenautical pioneer to a scientist and educator in the realm of psychedelics.

Here she discusses some of the potential hazards and dangers associated with the ritual use of ayahuasca. She also discusses what is known about the biochemistry and physiological processes associated with psychedelics. In addition, she is forthcoming about a “bad trip” that she, herself, experienced on ayahuasca. She distinguishes between negative experiences related to one’s [...]