Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science

Stanislav 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.

• Preface Part I Introduction 1 East and West: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science Stanislav Grof2 The Transpersonal Perspective Frances VaughanPart II Ancient Spiritual Traditions 3 Understanding Your Own Mind Swami Muktananda4 Love until It Hurts Mother Teresa5 The Cows Are Many Colors, but the Milk Is the Same Dastoor Minocher Homji6 Science Today and the New Creation Father Bede Griffiths7 The Evolution of Consciousness and Human Survival Karan Singh8 The Mystery of Karma Swami Prajnananda9 Kundalini: The Energy of Transformation Swami Kripananda10 The Smile of the Buddha: Paradigms in Perspective Jack Kornfield11 Search Within Yashpal Jain12 Kundalini: The Awakening of the Inner Cosmic Energy Ajit MookerjeePart III New Paradigms in Western Science 13 The New Vision of Reality: Toward a Synthesis of Eastern Wisdom and Modern Science Fritjof Capra14 Morphic Resonance Rupert Sheldrake15 The Holographic Hypothesis of Brain Function: A Meeting of Minds Karl Pribram16 Role Models and Human Development Joseph Chilton Pearce17 The Yoga of Androgyny June Singer18 Jung's Active Imagination: A Technique of Western Meditation Cecil E. Burney19 Psychophysiology and Health: Personal and Transpersonal Alyce M. Green20 Science and Psychophysiology, Psychophysics and Mythology Elmer E. Green21 Bringing Eastern Meditation into Western Psychotherapy Claudio Naranjo22 Women's Place in Today's World Swami Sivananda RadhaBiographical Notes