This imaginal world manifests in what I call "holotropic states of consciousness" -- the altered states in which experiences surface that, as stated above, are very similar to those that inspired the great religions of the world. ❋ Stanislav Grof (2010)
The study of holotropic states has thrown new light on the problem of spirituality and religion. ❋ Stanislav Grof (2010)
Spirituality is based on direct experiences of ordinarily invisible numinous dimensions of reality, which become available in holotropic states of consciousness. ❋ Stanislav Grof (2010)
His work with LSD and then later with holotropic breathwork is what led him to his ideas regarding the in-uterine and perinatal experience. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
All too often, one particular psychotherapeutic approach psychoanalysis, Gestalt, neurolinguistic programming, holotropic breathwork, Transactional Analysis, biological psychiatry, yoga, etc. is used for all types of pathologies, often with unfortunate results. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
I've used holotropic breathing in my own shamanic work, combined with Michael Harner's shamanic drumming CD. ❋ William Harryman (2007)
Grof developed holotropic breathwork when LSD became illegal, as a way to generate the same or similar states of consciousness. ❋ William Harryman (2007)
The process I have used involves holotropic breathwork until I sense my consciousness opening up the drumming CD is playing already during this process. ❋ William Harryman (2007)
I was in a sensory deprivation tank, listening to shamanic drumming, doing holotropic breathwork, and then it came, the face of my death. ❋ William Harryman (2007)
It included brief mentions of a multi-day solitary, personal and spiritual quest in the wilderness without food or water, a ceremonial sauna and holotropic breath work. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Thanks to holography, he is able to push his artificial holotropic drugs to any place in spacetime. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Stanislav Grof received the decadal prize for holotropic breathwork. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Stan Grof was the first serious psychologist to suggest that we maintain some consciousness of the holotropic breathwork is what led him to his ideas regarding the in-uterine and perinatal experience. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And the Clinical Hypnotherapist training covers the Churchill Imprint Method for transforming subconscious beliefs, core energetics, hypnoanalysis, Mulder’s sandbox process, the cartography of human consciousness, experiential sessions of holotropic breathwork, and practice sessions. ❋ Joel Naftali Lee (1999)
