The Holotropic Mind

The Holotropic Mind explores the different levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives. It draws on the work of Stanislav Grof, a psychiatrist who was formerly a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and who founded the International Transpersonal Association. Grof has written many books on consciousness research.

The book presents his findings from decades of studying non-ordinary states of consciousness. It argues that the psyche reaches well beyond the ordinary waking self, and it examines what this means for psychology and for understanding human experience. Grof wrote it with Hal Zina Bennett, and it is meant for general readers as well as those interested in transpersonal psychology.