Duncan Campbell and Stanislav Grof - When the Impossible Happens: The Evolution of Psychology Beyond its Cradle

Another cool discussion from Duncan Campbell at Living Dialogues, this time with one of the pioneers of transpersonal psychology, Stan Grof.

Duncan Campbell and Stanislav Grof

When the Impossible Happens - The Evolution of Psychology Beyond its Cradle

Psychiatrist, consciousness researcher and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of Transpersonal Psychology, visionary Stanislav Grof engage in dialogue in this episode with Duncan Campbell.

We’re beginning to pay attention to consciousness itself and its origin, and realizing in many, many different ways as we join with many, many different pioneers that consciousness is not some accidental byproduct of the physical mass of the brain -- but, quite the contrary, consciousness is the very stuff and substance of existence itself. And so, in that larger perspective, what we’re really about is I think an initiatic crisis of the species, of the human being itself -- needing to go beyond the old conventional, narrowly reductive and “monisticly” materialistic scientific models of what we understand reality to be. Although not yet penetrated into the general mainstream culture, quantum physics and discoveries in the biological and other sciences in the last 80 years have already greatly changed and expanding our models of reality. In his “opening the veil” on the psyche in the West in the late 19th and early part of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud was a pioneer then, but his attempt to put his insights into the “hard science” mold of the day kept them confined in the box of the personal biography, with a somewhat mechanistic model of his categories of id, ego and superego. Where we have gone since and where we go next on this amazing journey is the subject of this dialogue

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