Grof - gr8 webvid "The Future of Psychology"

[Mike]

OK this isnt a quick buzz one... its getting on for and hour and a half hour lecture.

But it is very interesting... Grof is clearly "un homme serieux" who has had all sorts of cool experiences (and cool friends/colleagues) but it above all the consummate professional... His language is precise (oddly he seems to have a German not a Czech accent) and he is always careful to be accurate... no polemicist he.

Makes some great points about non-ordinary states of consciousness and (naturally) the kind of 'incorrect limiting beliefs' built-in to western psychology.

Worthy of watching is you have time and fancy some serious but fascinating material.

And tx once again to Dedroid for linking to this 

Each part about 15mins long...

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

 

Mike

[Mike]

As an interesting aside - it does frequently strike me (shortly before either Barry or Sonia strikes me (I have spotted a correlation) ) that psychotherapy is more like a religion than anything else...

...this was brought home by the fact that at the start of the lecture (after a verbose 2minute introduction from someone else ("get on with it mate!"))... Grof says he feels it necessary to emphasise that the thing that first got him into psychology (he was about to be a film animator! How peoples lives twist and turn eh?) was Freud... and that he was a strict Freudian having psycotherapy himself for seven years (before he started to realise it wasnt as all-powerful as it said 'on the tin').

Curious thing this quasi-religious devotion 

Mike

[Barry]

Freud was clearly a great man to have attracted and help facilitate so many great people on their own journey's of discovery.

No need to create a religion around that statement. As I think the Buddha (or someone like that) commented along the lines of - first kill your mother and father, and when you have done that kill me. 

With metta,

Barry

[Mike]

Oh no - I thought you had de-programmed yourself from 'rising to the bait'   ... you'll only encourage the impish 

And AFAIK and all that I never heard of the Buddha being part of someone sudden death cult... my money *definitely* on the quote about mass-murder not being from the Buddha