Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
Stanislav Grof, Marjorie Livingston ValierThe papers in this book were presented at the seventh Conference of the International Transpersonal Association held in Bombay. The ITA is a non-profit organization that brings together individuals of different nationalities, professions, and philosophical or spiritual preferences who share in the view that there is a fundamental unity underlying all of humanity and the material world.
The cover photo is from the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri.
About the AuthorStanislav Grof, MD, is a psychiatrist with more than fifty years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness.
He has been Principal Investigator in a psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia; Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University; and Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute.
He is currently Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, conducts professional training programs in holotropic breathwork, and gives lectures and seminars worldwide.
He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology and the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA). In 2007, he was granted the prestigious Vision 97 award from the Vaclav and Dagmar Havel Foundation in Prague.
He is the author and editor of many books, including:
The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration;
Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy;
The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness;
Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution; and
Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research;
all published by SUNY Press.