Stanislav "Stan" Grof was born on July 1, 1931 and is a Czech-born psychiatrist who has been living in the United States since the 1960s.
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10 Facts About Stanislav Grof
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Stanislav Grof is one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche.
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Stanislav Grof received the VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007.
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Stanislav Grof is the only person to have been awarded the anti-prize Erratic Boulder Award twice in that country.
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Stanislav Grof featured in the film Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within, a 2006 documentary about rediscovering an enchanted cosmos in the modern world.
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Stanislav Grof is known, in scientific circles, for his early studies of LSD and its effects on the psyche—the field of psychedelic therapy.
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Stanislav Grof continues this work as of 2015 under the trademark "Holotropic Breathwork".
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Stanislav Grof connects the hylotropic to the Buddhist conception of namarupa, the separate, individual, illusory self.
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Stanislav Grof connects the holotropic to the Hindu conception of Atman-Brahman, the divine, true nature of the self.
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Stanislav Grof has researched the effects of psychedelic substances, which he states can be induced by non-pharmacological means.
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