Stan Grof on the Great Cycle of birth, death & transformation

What if the journey that brought you into this life also holds a map for navigating its greatest transitions, including the journey out of it?

Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD discovered through decades of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness that birth, profound psychological transformation, and dying may follow a remarkably similar pattern. 

He expanded the psychological paradigm perhaps more than any single researcher in the last 100 years.

Join Stan, Brigitte Grof, Paul Grof, MD, PhD, and Jay Dufrechou, PhD, for a brand-new free online event on Thursday, October 15, exploring the “Great Cycle” — a recurring movement through wholeness, dissolution, struggle, surrender, and ultimately, emergence into a new state of being. Find out more and register here.

You’ll explore the possibility that birth was your first great experience of transformation: leaving behind an entire familiar world, passing through an intense process beyond your control, and emerging into a completely new way of being.

Stan found echoes of this same pattern in profound psychological and spiritual transformation, leading to an extraordinary question: Could the journey that brought us into life also offer clues for approaching death?

Rather than seeing periods of dissolution, uncertainty, and upheaval only as something going wrong, the Great Cycle offers a larger context for understanding them, and a way to meet life’s deepest transitions with greater trust, openness, and willingness to surrender to the process.

Understanding Stan’s work, which summarizes the insights of thousands of non-ordinary states of consciousness into the nature of our lives and reality, is truly foundational for a new paradigm for humanity. This is a unique opportunity to connect with Stan in his 95th year.

Even if you can’t make it on Thursday, be sure to register so we can send you a full-length recording following the event.