He is nothing less than legendary: Stanislaw Grof is in the house. Stan was around when the first wave of psychedelic research started, he was a thriving force in bringing psychedelics into psychiatry.
Stan is a psychiatrist with over sixty years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology.
He was born in Prague in 1931 where he also received his scientific training. Essentially, Grof was one of the first doctors using LSD in psychiatry! In 1969, Dr. Grof became Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, one of the most important universities now researching psychedelics now.
In 1973, after LSD was banned, he was invited as Scholar-in-Residence to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he developed, with his late wife Christina Grof, Holotropic Breathwork, an innovative form of experiential psychotherapy that is now being used worldwide.
Stan and his now wife Brigitte Grof still help people worldwide, they just launched their new training in working with holotropic states of consciousness, the Grof® Legacy Training.
