Stanislav Grof, MD, is a psychiatrist with more than fifty years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness. He has been Principal Investigator in a psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia; Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University; and Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute. He is currently Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, conducts professional training programs in holotropic breathwork, and gives lectures and seminars worldwide. He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology and the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA). In 2007, he was granted the prestigious Vision 97 award from the Vaclav and Dagmar Havel Foundation in Prague. He is the author and editor of many books, including The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration; Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy; The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness; Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution; and Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research; all published by SUNY Press.

Preface
Part I Introduction
1 East and West: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science
Stanislav Grof
2 The Transpersonal Perspective
Frances Vaughan
Part II Ancient Spiritual Traditions
3 Understanding Your Own Mind
Swami Muktananda
4 Love until It Hurts
Mother Teresa
5 The Cows Are Many Colors, but the Milk Is the Same
Dastoor Minocher Homji
6 Science Today and the New Creation
Father Bede Griffiths
7 The Evolution of Consciousness and Human Survival
Karan Singh
8 The Mystery of Karma
Swami Prajnananda
9 Kundalini: The Energy of Transformation
Swami Kripananda
10 The Smile of the Buddha: Paradigms in Perspective
Jack Kornfield
11 Search Within
Yashpal Jain
12 Kundalini: The Awakening of the Inner Cosmic Energy
Ajit Mookerjee
Part III New Paradigms in Western Science
13 The New Vision of Reality: Toward a Synthesis of Eastern Wisdom and Modern Science
Fritjof Capra
14 Morphic Resonance
Rupert Sheldrake
15 The Holographic Hypothesis of Brain Function: A Meeting of Minds
Karl Pribram
16 Role Models and Human Development
Joseph Chilton Pearce
17 The Yoga of Androgyny
June Singer
18 Jung's Active Imagination: A Technique of Western Meditation
Cecil E. Burney
19 Psychophysiology and Health: Personal and Transpersonal
Alyce M. Green
20 Science and Psychophysiology, Psychophysics and Mythology
Elmer E. Green
21 Bringing Eastern Meditation into Western Psychotherapy
Claudio Naranjo
22 Women's Place in Today's World
Swami Sivananda Radha
Biographical Notes