Duncan
Campbell and Stanislav Grof
When the Impossible Happens - The Evolution of
Psychology Beyond its Cradle

Psychiatrist, consciousness researcher and one of
the founders and chief theoreticians of Transpersonal
Psychologyvisionary Stanislav Grof engage in dialogue in this episode
with Duncan Campbell.
We’re beginning to pay attention to
consciousness itself and its origin, and realizing in many, many
different ways as we join with many, many different pioneers that
consciousness is not some accidental byproduct of the physical mass of
the brain -- but, quite the contrary, consciousness is the very stuff
and substance of existence itself. And so, in that larger perspective,
what we’re really about is I think an initiatic crisis of the
species, of the human being itself -- needing to go beyond the old
conventional, narrowly reductive and “monisticly”
materialistic scientific models of what we understand reality to be.
Although not yet penetrated into the general mainstream culture,
quantum physics and discoveries in the biological and other sciences in
the last 80 years have already greatly changed and expanding our models
of reality. In his “opening the veil” on the psyche
in the West in the late 19th and early part of the 20th century,
Sigmund Freud was a pioneer then, but his attempt to put his insights
into the “hard science” mold of the day kept them
confined in the box of the personal biography, with a somewhat
mechanistic model of his categories of id, ego and superego. Where we
have gone since and where we go next on this amazing journey is the
subject of this dialogue
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