# [Adventure of Self Discovery](https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Adventure-of-Self-Discovery) ### Author: [Dr. Stanislav Grof](https://www.stangrof.com/) ### Initial Publication Date: 1988 ### Notes Created: 2023-08-24 ### Notes updated: 2023-08-25 ### Tags: #book #grof #transpersonal #catalog #psychology ### Related: [[High Weirdness]] ## Notes: Beyond the Brain: Transpersonal Dimensions of the Psyche #### Experiential Extension Within Consensus Reality and Space-Time ##### Transcendence of Spatial Boundaries - Experience of Dual Unity - Identification with Other Persons - Group Identification and Group Consciousness - Identification with Animals - Identification with Plants and Botanical Processes - Oneness with Life and All Creation - Experience of Inanimate Matter and Inorganic Processes - Planetary Consciousness - Extraterrestrial Experiences - Identification with the Entire Physical Universe - Psychic Phenomena Involving Transcendence of Space ##### Transcendence of the Boundaries of Linear Time - Embryonal and Fetal Experiences - Ancestral Experiences - Racial and Collective Experiences - Past Incarnation Experiences - Phylogenetic Experiences - Experiences of Planetary Evolution - Cosmogenetic Experiences - Psychic Phenomena Involving Transcendence of Time ##### Physical Introversion and Narrowing of Consciousness Experiential Extension Beyond Consensus Reality and Space-Time - Spiritistic and Mediumistic Experiences - Energetic Phenomena of the Subtle Body - Experiences of Animal Spirits - Encounters with Spirit Guides and Suprahuman Beings - Visits to Other Universes and Meetings with Their Inhabitants - Experiences of Mythological and Fairy-Tale Sequences - Experiences of Specific Blissful and Wrathful Deities - Experiences of Universal Archetypes - Intuitive Understanding of Universal Symbols - Creative Inspiration and the Promethean Impulse - Experience of the Demiurg and Insights into Cosmic Creation - Experience of Cosmic Consciousness - The Supracosmic and Metacosmic Void ##### Transpersonal Experiences of Psychoid Nature 1. Synchronistic Links between Consciousness and Matter 2. Spontaneous Psychoid Events - Supernormal Physical Feats - Spiritistic Phenomena and Physical Mediumship - Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis - Unidentified Flying Objects 3. Intentional Psychokinesis a. Ceremonial Magic - Healing and Hexing - Siddhis - Laboratory Psychokinesis Philosophical Challenges from Transpersonal Experiences ## Links [Review by: Anton F. Kootte](https://www.jstor.org/stable/43853490) [Dr. Stanislav Grof](https://www.stangrof.com/) [suny press books by grof](https://sunypress.edu/Contributors/G/Grof-Stanislav)