Stanislav Grof on Death Experiences

Listen to this talk delivered at the Book Passage bookstore in San Francisco, CA. Author Stanislav Grof talks about his book The Ultimate Journey, telling stories about his own experiences with patients who have used psychedelic therapy and other methods of confronting death. Scott Eberle speaks about his book The Final Crossing which examines the intersection of the rites of passage movement with hospice care, and covers his observations of patients that have died both physically and symbolically. They answer a number of questions and talk about some of the difficulties that the American health care system has in confronting death, such as the illegality of euthanasia and the legal requirement to perform heroic measures of CPR when an individual is dying. This talk is available on streaming video from FORA.tv.

Death Experiences: Stan Grof and Scott Eberle

In every mystical wisdom tradition, nonordinary states of consciousness have served as essential tools for discovering why we are here and how we can live richer, more meaningful lives. For over 40 years, Stanislav Grof has tested and brought these methods into the field of modern psychology. Are emotional states and behavioral patterns explained solely by brain chemistry and life experience - or could they be expressions of far vaster universal energies? Which specific mind states most powerfully accelerate integration and healing of the self? And how do you access these states? In The Transpersonal Vision, Grof answers these questions - and raises many others - in a stunning summation of his groundbreaking life's work. You will learn about transpersonal psychology's daring forays into the worlds of the shaman and the mystic; how your perinatal (birth and prebirth) experience profoundly affect you even today; what past-life, near-death, and out-of-body phenomena teach us about our life purpose; and much more.

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Paramahansa Yodananda was born in West Bengal, India in 1893 and died in Los Angeles in 1952. As a child, he was initiated by wise Hindu masters such as Sri Yukteshwar Giri to thoughts and practices that would in the future shape his own interest for spirituality. Before entering the monastic order as a monk, he developed an interest for western knowledge and studied in the prestigious Scottish Church College, before obtaining a philosophy degree at the University of Calcutta.

Paramahansa Yodananda is known for being one of the first yogis to spread his knowledge on a large scale, creating a western public interest for Yoga and Indian spirituality when he moved to America. In his most popular book Autobiography of a Yogi, available for download through LearnOutLoud.com, Paramahansa Yodananda gathers together an interesting amount of narratives, experiences, and principles about Kriya Yoga, a revival of ancient yoga practices. Translated into twenty-five language, Autobiography of a Yogi remains a wise and highly influential work for those who are interested in meditation and self-realization, another central theme in Yodananda's teaching. Along with Autobiography of a Yogi, you might want to listen to some of his distilled spiritual wisdom in either The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita or The Essence of Self-Realization which we offer on audio download.

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