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2012 Time for Change: Stan Grof

Daniel Pinchbeck

Reality Sandwich and 2012TFC are partnering up to get this movement going. We are launching a series of videos, 2012 Time for Change presents. Directed by Joao Amorim, these videos feature celebrities and Luminaries on Conscious Evolution and Practical Solutions. In this video, the psychiatrist and author Stanislav Grof. Grof discusses with Daniel how psychedelics helped him create an expanded cartography for the psyche, with a new emphasis on what he calls the "perinatal" and transpersonal consciousness. We need to raise up from our self imposed biological cubicles, that is the next level of consciousness. Evolve to Solve!

Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D., is a psychiatrist with over forty years experience of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness (induced by psychedelic substances and various non-drug techniques) and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology. 

The full-length film "2012 Time for Change", premiered last month in San Francisco at the Lumiere-Landmark.  It projects a radical alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee Joao Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. 

2012 Time for Change has upcoming screenings in Santa Cruz, Chicago and Seattle. Please click on the links to purchase tickets online.

 

Comments

"Paranatal" is incorrect

Submitted by bab on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 06:54.
Stan Grof's concept of psychological development hinges on the "perinatal" (the birth process and surrounding events) not "paranatal."

Thanks!

Submitted by Jennifer Palmer on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 09:21.

Correction has been made.

 

Peace,

 

jp

Long Start

Submitted by zimij on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 11:54.
Still, with Dr Grof's eloquent description of what is behind the myths, the invisible clay path to a new world remains muddied by dis-traction. Live well. be free

End time...

Submitted by ludicman on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 14:06.
  • What a beautiful man and a great opportunity for you Daniel. He didn't say no to 2012 and he didn't say yes. He seems to be saying we will define it not the Mayans. If that is true we are so screwed. However, he said there were things going on at other levels which certainly gives us pause to beg for light. Boundaries are negotiable. Time is the enemy. Excellent interview! Too bad about your camera man though... shot under poor conditions... nonetheless: very worthy. I hope Stan the Man lives to see it with us.

Embracing Time

Submitted by Zorro on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 01:53.

Sorry, but perhaps Time is not the enemy.Maybe that denial has led us to this mess...

"The significance of our existence here determines our destiny: that destiny is something that already exists in us as a necessity and a potentiality, the necessity of our being's secret and emergent reality, a truth of its potentialities that is being worked out; both, though not yet realised, are even now implied in what has been already manifested. If there is a Being that is becoming, a Reality of existence that is unrolling itself inTime, what that being, that reality secretly is, is what we have to become, and so to become is our life's significance." (The Life Divine, Chapter 28)

Sri Aurobindo

http://www.aeongroup.com/emercos.htm

http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/4787

http://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2010/01/higher-vision-of-time-is-nee...

 

"The SACRED (whatever that means) is surely related (somehow) to the BEAUTIFUL (whatever that means)..."
Gregory Bateson

 

Transforming Your Veiw

Submitted by JCB on Mon, 05/17/2010 - 09:33.

He speaks well of the ability for someone to connect, or rather become connected to all things, to imagine things as they really are. I don't think the psychedelics are completely necessary as a divine ingredient for one to reach a mystical perspective. Obviously they create that separation from our learned experience, but the connection still must be carried daily and developed. It can't be mastered on LSD or anything else, it would be out of balance and I fear many would misperceive the journey. Good under the right circumstance though, Im sure.

Medicine Plant documentary

Submitted by drew hempel on Mon, 05/17/2010 - 20:26.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/jungle-trip/ Jungle Trip!! Medicine Man documentary.

Towards Multi-Dimensional Science....................

Submitted by Searle88 on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 04:30.
Stan Grof has done great service to help expand our understanding of conciousness, and gain a better insight into the spiritual. My evolving project would arguably go way beyond his research, and those of others if it were fully developed. It is called MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCIENCE. http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Multi-Dimensional_Science Robert Searle. ( My other project is http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Transfinancial_Economics )

Drugs to manipulate ones consciousness...

Submitted by sdfsdfsdfasdf on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 15:29.

I came here from Yahoo Answers, where I have been for about six years, answering questions in 'philosophy' and 'psychology'. But the level is going down more and more. Due to this silly point and voting system, the place seems to be the playground for bored teenager. So I am looking for a better place and came here to 'Reality Sandwich'.

My first impression is, that this place is the playground for some intellectual 'nearly enlightened' people, who are with the help of psychedelics, are trying to go beyond their limits...

It is surprising, that it seems to be unknown that any kind of manipulation is just another trick to stay in ones illusion and only serve to give oneself some excitement and a new way to feel ones precious personality existence...

I didn't come here to be informed about shoes, so I flagged seven comments, but that's not really what I want to do here... I have some doubts now, if this here is a place for my writings. Maybe some one can have a look and give me an advice. Just go to: http://falconblanco.com

Namaste

BeiYin