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Stanislav "Stan" Grof (born July 1, 1931) is a Czech born American psychiatrist. Grof is one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of psychological healing, deep self-exploration, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche .
Walter Norman Pahnke (Jan 18, 1931 – July 10, 1971) was a minister, physician, and psychiatrist most famous for the "Good Friday Experiment", also referred to as the Marsh Chapel Experiment or the "Miracle of Marsh Chapel".
In the early 1960s in Psychedelic Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Stanislav Grof tested the value of LSD in treatment of psychologically ill patients. His goal was to observe the effect of psychedelics on the psychology of terminally-ill cancer patients. [3] Grof would later be involved in research at the Spring Grove Clinic.
Advisory-board members include Christopher Bache, Jorge Ferrer, Stanislav Grof, Robert A. McDermott, Ralph Metzner, and Brian Swimme. Contributors have included Keiron Le Grice, Richard Tarnas, Stanislav Grof, and Rod O'Neal. In 2008 Tarnas was invited to address members of the Dutch Parliament about creating a sustainable society. [17]
In 1969, Maslow, Grof and Sutich were among the initiators behind the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. [4] [3] [5] The Association for Transpersonal Psychology was established in 1972, [6] the International Transpersonal Psychology Association in 1973, [5] and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology ...
Joan Halifax was born in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1942. At age four a serious virus caused her to go legally blind, from which she recovered two years later.In 1964 she graduated from Harriet Sophie Newcomb College at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she had become drawn into the American civil rights movement and participated in anti-war protests.
Emmy-nominated producer Stan Rogow has died at age 75. On Thursday, Dec. 7, Rogow—known for producing Lizzie McGuire and Fame —died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., a ...
Stanislav Grof (b. 1931), psychologist; Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967), chemist; Václav Hlavatý (1894–1969), mathematician; Miroslav Holub (1923–1998), writer and immunologist; Milada Horáková (1901–1950], women's rights activist, freedom-fighter against Nazis and communists; Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997), writer