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datedate

Holotropic Breathing

In Search of LSD
On several researches, I've stumbled upon LSD being a mind-expander and not the narcotic that the mainstream has vilified. I would have been willing to try some, but the logistics and cost were discouraging. Then, while reading Holographic Universe, Prof. Stanislav Grof talked about duplicating the effects of LSD on breath alone. He even published a book detailing how it was done - The Adventure of Self Discovery. I was hooked.

Here is a snippet I wrote about Prof. Stanislav Grof in the Holographic Universe:

Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof takes the Holographic Universe further by claiming that our psyche can endlessly explore the vastness of the Implicate Order. Grof has been studying if LSD has any therapeutic benefit. Grof concluded that patients undergoing LSD therapy recovered faster and permanently. They are even able to move into other areas previosly undefined by the therapy (like reliving the sensation of still being in the womb). Some LSD patients claimed to have been or gone into a reptile form and described details that only zoologists would know (unlike other recreational drugs, LSD seem to be one that allows the user to transcend the limits of human persception. Steve Jobs used to take LSD and up until his death, gave LSD the credit for waking him up. He even encouraged all his friends and colleagues to take it. After reading that, I am also now curious in taking LSD...but how do you do that?).

Other patients gave accounts of their ancestors or family members known to no one else. Others talked about being in the time of Genghis Khan and the onslaught of the Mongol hordes. Others were transported to ancient Egyptian time and discussed mummification in rich detail. From LSD use, they all seem to have accessed information from a different time and place, even from non-human intelligence not from this world, supporting the notion that there really is an Implicate Order containing data of everything (this ties up well with what the shamans of the Amazon are saying about Ayahuasca...that the plants talk to them and impart knowledge and insight). Grof was unwavering in claiming that given his 3000 LSD sessions at 5 hours/session, the understanding of science to human nature, reality and the universe is superficial, incomplete and need to be revised. He proposed the Holographic Universe as a means to this new level of understanding. Grof coined the word transpersonal for the archetypal experience of transcending the boundaries of the physical self and interconnect with the collective unconscious. Again, tapping into the Implicate Order takes an altered state of consciousness - it cannot be accessed by sheer force of will.

Holotropic Breathing
Grof's enduring legacy is the development of the Holotropic Breathing where you experience the altered state induced by LSD without taking LSD - just breathing! But the experience is every little bit, the same as taking LSD. With this, one gains access to the cosmic labyrinth that connects all aspects of existence. He wrote a separate book on this breathing method, The Adventure of Self-Discovery.

Principles of Holotropic Therapy 340

The Adventure of Self Discovery
This is the book published by Stanislav Grof and one its chapters is "Principles of Holotropic Therapy". This is a summary of that chapter.

Ending Thoughts

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