The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death
by Stanislav Grof
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Author: Stanislav GrofEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: 0966001990
Number of pages: 356
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
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Book Review: brilliant book about death and dying
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a profound and moving book by one of the most penetrating spiritual researchers and philosophers ever. And as always Grof manages to challenge the ruling materialistic paradigm with series of hard-to-dismiss facts and observations.
What we get here is kind of a re-cycling of all Grof's previous writings on the topic. His review of classical texts like "The Tibetan Book of the Dead", and its Egyptian and Mayan parallels as well as the Ars Morendi litterature from the European Middle Ages. Like Jung it's just impressive how much this man knows.
We also get a summary of his important research on how psychedelics can relieve the dying process for terminal cancer patients sparkled with some very moving case stories. And his deep and enlightening thoughts on religion, reinkarnation, karma. Plus of course an indepth look at the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
And yet another overview over his brilliantly simple and profound model of the human psyche, with its weight on the birth trauma and the vast and challenging transpersonal realm. Sad but understandable that it as been largely ignored by main stream atheistic science, harder to comprehend that so few in the alternative world seriously has embraced it.
Like other spiritual giants - Rudolf Steiner, J. Krishnamurti, Osho - Grof is somehow encapsuled in his own world. With some justification it could be said that his thoughts havn't really developed the last 30 years, and he is certainly not up to date on recent psychological research; he doesn't seem to have noticed, that Freud is rather out and cognitive psychology, which all together denies the Unconscious, is hot and in. Neither has he much discussion of recent alternative theories like Ken Wilber's 'integral psychology' or Amit Goswami's quantum based view on life after death (in his "Physics Of The Soul").
None the less this a valuable and brilliant book for everyone interested in the depths of human consciousness and wether it might somehow survive and transcend physical death. And an important manual in what should be the central topic in every human beings life: how to leave it in the best possible way.
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