admin in Healing, Text 3 Comments Tags: holotropic, rebirthing, Stan Grof, transpersonal theory
By Stan Grof M.D
A facinating exploration of holotropic states of consciousness in context to healing : “Ancient and pre-industrial cultures have held holotropic states in high esteem, practiced them regularly in socially sanctioned contexts, and spent much time and energy developing safe and effective techniques of inducing them…”
Daniel Mirante in Interviews, Text No Comments Tags: ritual, trance, transpersonal theory
One of the enigmas of the Upper Palaeolithic rock art are the geometric patterns, such as grids, parallel lines, zigzags, dots, spirals, nested curves and filigrees, that appear either on heir own or combined with more complex images. Recent theories, such as that of Lewis-Williams, point to the possibility that these may be ‘neural artefacts‘ left to us by trancing shamans – clues to the states of consciousness that produced them.