Detail from “Books of the Dead” by Stanislav Grof (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) It seems like every few decades there is a mainstream revival for the occult and esoteric. Not that ...

In 1955, psychiatrist Grof (The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death), then a Czech medical student, began studying the effects of LSD on human subjects (including himself) in ...

Dr. Stanislav Grof, eminent psychiatrist and groundbreaking researcher into non-ordinary and altered states of consciousness sat down with Sacred Mysteries to discuss his new book, The Ultimate ...

“After experiences of ego death and cosmic unity, abuse of alcohol or narcotics, and suicidal tendencies, are seen as tragic mistakes caused by an unrecognized spiritual craving for transcendence.” ...