# Adventure of Self Discovery [SUNY Press](https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Adventure-of-Self-Discovery) · [Author site](https://www.stangrof.com/) *Grof, Stanislav. The Adventure of Self-Discovery. SUNY Press, 1988.* ## Description Notes on holotropic states and transpersonal psychology, drawn from Grof's taxonomy of transpersonal experiences — extensions of consciousness beyond ordinary space-time boundaries encountered in holotropic and non-ordinary states. ## Key Tags #book #transpersonal #psychology ## Key Passages %% quoted excerpts with page numbers, one per bullet %% - "quote" (p.##) ## Notes by Chapter ### 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 ## Details %% A more comprehensive personal reflection and collection of relevant notes, details, references, links %% ### Concepts and Theories - [[Transpersonal and Consciousness Studies]] - %%Grof's taxonomy of non-ordinary experience is a foundational text for transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies%% ### Related Texts - [[High Weirdness]] - %%related text on altered states and non-ordinary reality; page not yet started%% ## References ### Cited In %% Pages in this vault (210 / 220 / 230) that draw on this source %% ### External Links - [Review by Anton F. Kootte](https://www.jstor.org/stable/43853490) - [Dr. Stanislav Grof](https://www.stangrof.com/) - author site - [SUNY Press: books by Grof](https://sunypress.edu/Contributors/G/Grof-Stanislav)