Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD
Access the power of non-ordinary states, shamanic practices and embodied healing work to transform your life.
Are you ready to take a leap to a higher level of consciousness?
Do you long for genuine spiritual experiences that promise to rewire your sense of reality?
If so, you’re a “psychonaut” — someone who embodies the same spirit of adventure as an astronaut, eager to discover advanced psycho-spiritual practices that enable you to embark on a life-altering journey into inner realms.
The truth is that Western psychology has for too long reduced us to our lowest-common denominators.
Much of the spiritual depth, power and inspiration we cherish at the core of our lives has been written off by psychologists who focus primarily on behavior and cognition.
Fortunately, research at the leading edge of psychology has opened a portal into an exciting new realm of possibilities that validates many of the insights of history’s great spiritual teachers — and leads us into a deeper, more accurate and empowering view of ourselves.
This is the starting point for the Way of the Psychonaut. Like the adventurers of old who fearlessly journeyed beyond the boundaries of the physical map, these modern explorers are venturing beyond the map of psychology into new realms of human evolution.
They’re discovering new and ancient methods that grant us access to a more multidimensional consciousness and fascinating new worlds. By resurrecting shamanic technologies of our ancient ancestors, marrying them with the latest neuroscience, and integrating holistic ways of working with breath, music and movement, today’s psychonauts are pioneering a new understanding of life, one more deeply connected to the cosmos.
As you navigate this exciting new path, you'll discover you’re not limited to your body or even to your singular life. You can expand your identity to a cosmic scale, explore other dimensions, and even access information from what appear to be past lives.
When you open to the deeper dimensions of your psyche, you uncover a new world of understanding... from seeing how your body holds energy around physical traumas... to appreciating how your birth experiences give you the “template” for how you navigate challenges... to opening to transpersonal guidance for your daily life.
If you’ve ever been intrigued by phenomena such as psychic experiences, past-life memories, psychedelic experiences, lucid dreaming, breathwork or shamanic journeying, then you’re naturally ready to explore the very realms that The Way of the Psychonaut covers in a grounded, experiential way.
Traveling to the Frontiers of Consciousness With a Skilled Guide
Dr. Stanislav Grof has been one of the earliest and most accomplished pioneers of these realms through his decades of legal research into the therapeutic use of psychedelics, his innovative understanding of non-ordinary states based on experiential forms of psychotherapy, and his exhaustive studies of art, shamanism and myth.
From Stan’s work has emerged a new “cartography” of the human psyche that factors in our birth experiences and introduces us to transpersonal domains more typically explored by shamans and healers.
Stan’s research led him to co-found the field of transpersonal psychology, which builds upon our “personal” psychology to include more advanced states of consciousness — as well as exciting new areas to explore in an “adventure of self-discovery.”
By exploring these realms with Stan, you’ll gain a deeper appreciation for your capacity for growth, a more profound vision for your life, and an expanded toolkit for clearing old traumas from both your psyche and body.
Stan’s brilliant mind and encyclopedic knowledge of the various schools of psychology have enabled him to piece everything together into one coherent whole. His synthesis of the schools of psychology is comprehensive and unparalleled.
He’s spent decades integrating the insights, research and practices of transformational traditions from around the world to develop a unique and empowering vision of our individual and collective potential.
His perspective ultimately liberates you from limited ideas of who you are and what you’re capable of achieving and becoming.
Now, for the first time, Stan is distilling a lifetime of mind-expanding explorations into a cohesive, online advanced program called The Way of the Psychonaut, in which you’ll expand your understanding of healing, personal evolution and the nature of the cosmos.
This program was designed for those who are serious about awakening, healing and evolving.
Opening a New Portal
In The Way of the Psychonaut, you’ll discover why we are not limited by time, space and causality in the way we once thought.
Further, when you integrate methods of accessing non-ordinary states of consciousness, as shamans have done for thousands of years, you open to far more powerful, experiential and accelerated methods of healing and growth.
By journeying into your depths, you can release old traumas, free up your emotions, access expanded wisdom, and set a new baseline for your life.
In short, The Way of the Psychonaut is being forged by those who are willing to pioneer new methods for healing that transcend the limits of cognitive insights and allow us to access our full potential as human beings.
The Best of a New Paradigm
When you enroll into Stan’s The Way of the Psychonaut 16-module on-demand program, you’ll have a unique opportunity to explore this exciting new paradigm and its implications with one of the field’s most eminent elders — not only for your own personal growth but also for any transformational work you may do with others.
Within each module, you’ll receive advanced teachings about how to access the power of non-ordinary states that allow you to develop a deeper understanding of shamanic practices, which help you move beyond talk therapy into life-changing experiences.
Over the course of 16-modules, you’ll learn how to work with your “inner healer” to guide you to the precise next steps you need in your journey of growth.
You’ll expand your view of your psyche and our cosmos and understand the nature and role of transpersonal experiences, which can help you avoid pathologizing truly liberating experiences. You’ll also see how these experiences overlap with fields such as archetypal psychology.
And you’ll see how conscious breath practices offer some of the most potent pathways to personal freedom.
What’s more, you’ll gain powerful insights into the importance of your birth experience in setting the foundation for your growth and development — and why clearing birth trauma can be so powerful for your healing.
If you’re a clinician, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of suicide, depression, spiritual crises (“spiritual emergencies”) and the power of death and rebirth experiences.
Simply put, you’ll be amazed at Stan’s profound knowledge and how his bold new vision transcends entrenched, more limited views of psychology and spirit. This invigorating program will give you a far deeper understanding of the cosmos and our role in it.
During this 16-module journey, you’ll:
- Open to a truly multidimensional understanding of yourself and others
- Have a grounded sense for how to harness the power of non-ordinary states
- Expand your sense of identity and connection to the cosmos
- Explore how to harness the power of non-ordinary states to move you beyond talk therapy into life-changing experiences
- Receive a detailed, expanded map of psyche and cosmos, including the nature and role of transpersonal experiences
- Understand the signs for spiritual crisis and how to navigate through it
- Come to trust your “inner healer” to guide you to the experiences you need most
- Understand how to go deeper into the emotional and energetic roots of trauma to find true freedom
What You’ll Discover in 16-Modules
In this 16-module transformational intensive, Stan will explore the leading edge of modern consciousness research into the understanding of consciousness, of the human psyche, and the nature of reality. You’ll discover a vastly extended new cartography of the psyche. Special attention will be paid to experiences and observations that represent a serious challenge to the reductionist, materialistic paradigm of Western science and foreshadow an urgent need for a radical new worldview.
Each module will build harmoniously upon the next so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to relate to a multitude of psychological experiences through an evolutionary lens.
Module 1 History of Psychonautics - Ancient, Aboriginal & Modern 'Technologies of the Sacred'
Module 2 Cartography of the Psyche in Depth Psychology - An Indispensable Tool for Psychonauts
Module 3 Exploring Postnatal Biography & the Individual Unconscious
Module 4 Visionary Journey Into the Deep Recesses of the Human Psyche
Module 5 Basic Perinatal Matrices (BPMs) & Prenatal Memories
Module 6 Transpersonal Experiences & Their Importance for Self-Discovery, Spiritual Opening & Healing
Module 7 The Importance of Set & Setting for Navigating Non-ordinary Realities
Module 8 Self-Healing Intelligence of the Psyche: Implications for Bodywork
Module 9 Holotropic Breathwork - The Healing Power of Breath, Music & Bodywork
Module 10 Spiritual Experiences in Holotropic States of Consciousness & Their Relation to Organized Religions
Module 11 Mystical Experiences - Psychosis or Transcendence?
Module 12 Holotropic States, Transpersonal Psychology & Hard Sciences
Module 13 Synchronicity - C.G. Jung's 'Acausal Connecting Principle'
Module 14 Higher Creativity - Holotropic States as Source of Scientific & Artistic Inspiration
Module 15 When the Impossible Happens - Adventures in Non-ordinary Realities
Module 16 Healing & Transformative Potential of Holotropic States of Consciousness
Stanislav Grof’s Introductory Course, Psychology of the Future
This intensive builds upon the core teachings from the 7-module program, Psychology of the Future. When you purchase the 16-module intensive, you gain access to that powerful resource as well! You can complete the core teachings at your leisure, but it’s best to begin before the new sessions start.
In this 7-module transformational intensive, Stan will reveal the implications of modern consciousness research for the understanding of consciousness, of the human psyche, and the nature of reality. You’ll discover a vastly extended new cartography of the psyche. Special attention will be paid to experiences and observations that represent a serious challenge to the reductionist, materialistic paradigm of Western science and foreshadow an urgent need for a radical new worldview.
Each module will build harmoniously upon the next so that you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to relate to a multitude of psychological experiences through an evolutionary lens.
- Module 1: Proposal for a Radical Revision of Psychiatry & Psychology
- Module 2: A New Cartography of the Psyche
- Module 3: The Roots of Violence & Greed
- Module 4: Architecture of Emotional & Psychosomatic Disorders
- Module 5: Spiritual Emergency
- Module 6: Psychospiritual Perspective on Death & Dying
- Module 7: The Cosmic Game
PLUS, you’ll get the Psychology of the Future Bonus Offering
- Modern Consciousness Research & the Understanding of Art
- Richard Tarnas: The Use of Archetypal Astrology in Psychedelic Therapy & Holotropic Breathwork
- Revision & Re-enchantment of Psychology: Legacy of Half a Century
The original price of Psychology of the Future on its own was $297, but it’s INCLUDED in your registration for the advanced course!
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Stanislav’s transformative 16-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Healing Our Deepest Wounds: The Holotropic Paradigm Shift
Book in PDF Version From Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD
This book by Dr. Stanislav Grof is an unprecedented consolidation that focuses on his life’s work in consciousness research, and the application of that work to the individual and collective healing we so desperately need. The message is a hopeful one: there are approaches to therapy that use a specific non-ordinary state of consciousness, enabling individuals, with support, to access and heal deeper levels of trauma in the personal and collective unconscious. Dr. Grof describes various approaches for achieving this holotropic state and using it for healing, with a focus on Holotropic Breathwork, which he developed with his wife and partner, Christina Grof. Another focus is psychedelic therapy, which Dr. Grof pioneered in the 1950s.
Spiritual Emergency: Understanding & Treatment of Transpersonal Crises
Video From Marisa Escasany With Stanislav Grof, MD
This interview with Stan Grof focuses on a large and important subgroup of spontaneous episodes of non-ordinary states of consciousness that are currently diagnosed as manifestations of serious mental diseases (psychoses). Correctly understood and treated, these states have extraordinary therapeutic, transformative, evolutionary and heuristic potential.
Roots of Human Violence and Greed: Psychospiritual Perspective on the Current Global Crises
Video From Marisa Escasany With Stanislav Grof, MD
The main thesis is of this interview is that the sources of what Erich Fromm called “malignant aggression” cannot be explained neither by biological theories referring to our animal origin nor by psychological schools using a model of the psyche limited to postnatal biography and the individual unconscious. Modern consciousness research has shown that the deep roots of malignant violence and greed can be found in the perinatal and transpersonal domain of the unconscious and work with these drives requires experiential therapy.
Physical Manifestations of Emotional Disorders
PDF Article From Stanislav Grof, MD
In this article, Grof reviews the literature regarding somatization and psychosomatic disorder and recounts his observations during the research with non-ordinary states. He concludes that the traditional concept of the “hyperventilation syndrome" is obsolete and has to be revised to reflect that faster breathing creates a biochemical situation in the body that facilitates emergence and resolution of old emotional and physical tensions associated with unresolved psychological and physical traumas. In the light of the observations from Holotropic Breathwork, spontaneous episodes of hyperventilation, occurring in psychiatric patients and the normal population, should be seen as attempts of the organism to heal itself and should be supported rather than suppressed.
What People Are Saying About Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD…
Author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Psychologist, spiritual teacher, and author of the spiritual classic, Be Here Now
Author of The World’s Religions and Beyond the Postmodern Mind
Author of Resurgence
Queensland, Australia
Arcata, California
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Sixteen Recorded Video Class Sessions With Stan Grof
Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored and learn with Stan Grof, one of the pioneers of transpersonal psychology, from the comfort of your own home. Each video module guides you to learn the specific skills and abilities to awaken your spiritual potential.
Sixteen Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Sixteen Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Stanislav Grof’s Introductory Course, Psychology of the Future 7-Module Course and Bonuses is included!
When you sign up for this 16-module journey, you’ll get instant access to Stanislav’s first 7-module online course.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Way of the Psychonaut
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About Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD
Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist with more than 60 years of experience in research of holotropic states of consciousness — a large and important subgroup of non-ordinary states that have healing, transformative, heuristic, and evolutionary potential.
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 in Baltimore, Maryland, and Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.
As a Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, he conducted professional training programs in holotropic breathwork and transpersonal psychology, and gave lectures and seminars worldwide.
Stan 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 VIZE 97 Prize from the Václav and Dagmar Havel Foundation in Prague, and in 2010 he received the Thomas R. Verny Award from the Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health (APPPAH) for his pivotal contributions to this field. He received an honorary PhD degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP), and in 2018 an honorary degree for Psychedelic Therapy and Healing Arts from the Institute of Integral Studies.
Among his publications are over 150 articles in professional journals and the books Beyond the Brain... LSD Psychotherapy... The Cosmic Game... Psychology of the Future... The Ultimate Journey... When the Impossible Happens... Healing Our Deepest Wounds... Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art...The Stormy Search for the Self... Spiritual Emergency... and Holotropic Breathwork (the last four with Christina Grof, who passed away in June 2014. He was also invited as consultant for special effects in the Metro Goldwyn Meyer science fiction movie Brainstorm and the 20th Century Fox science fiction movie Millennium.
Since April 2016, Stan has been happily married to Brigitte Grof. They live together in Germany and travel the inner and outer worlds in tandem, conducting seminars, trainings, and holotropic breathwork workshops worldwide.
In August 2019, the encyclopedia of his life’s work, The Way of the Psychonaut, was published, and the documentary film about his life and work was released: The Way of the Psychonaut: Stanislav Grof’s Journey of Consciousness.
In May 2020, he and Brigitte launched their new training in working with Holotropic States of Consciousness: the international Grof® Legacy Training. In 2026, they published their book, Stan Grof´s Quotes for Psychonauts.
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