Sublime

Grof, who has guided thousands of LSD sessions, once predicted that psychedelics “would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology or the telescope is for astronomy.

A great many therapeutic and spiritual modalities were developed and taught here over the years, including the therapeutic and spiritual potential of psychedelics. Beginning in 1973, Stanislav Grof, the Czech émigré psychiatrist who is one of the pioneers of LSD-assisted psychotherapy, served as scholar in residence at Esalen,

Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof, Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy David Perlmutter and Alberto Villoldo, Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment

Specially trained psychiatrists and psychologists are now administering hallucinogens and other potent psychotropic agents (psilocybin, ketamine, ecstasy) as mental health remedies. Administering limited doses (one to three) of psychedelics interspersed with multiple sessions of talk therapy over many weeks has become the modern equivalent of shama

Grof's expanded cartography of psyche not only integrates the entire range of biographical, perinatal, and transpersonal domains that routinely emerge in deep self-exploration, but shows how they are connected. Most importantly, his clinical research confirms that there is a finite amount of negative material in the individual psyche.