The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

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Summary: Great Book
Review: Grof has written a super book that describes the many aspects of spiritual development. He aligns his core thoughts along the thoughts of Ken Wilber. This how ever is not Wilberian book and has many original insights, not mere theory. Grof is a gifted psychiatrist with no axe to grind. He, unlike Wilber who believes his theories hold and explain everyone else's theories, is much more open and unthreatened. He brings different viewpoints to his writing, without claiming to be the end all or have the last word. Get this book, you will not be let down.

Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: Grof has written a super book that describes the many aspects of spiritual development. He aligns his core thoughts along the thoughts of Ken Wilber. This how ever is not Wilberian book and has many original insights, not mere theory. Grof is a gifted psychiatrist with no axe to grind. He, unlike Wilber who believes his theories hold and explain everyone else's theories, is much more open and unthreatened. He brings different viewpoints to his writing, without claiming to be the end all or have the last word. Get this book, you will not be let down.

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Summary: Roadmap of the human consciousness towards cosmic reunion.
Review: Grof presents the imaginative realm of human consciousness and its return towards the "holotropic" state. He shares his insight into the psyche of the inward realm where exploration brings you to the mountaintop of existance; this is where the blissful states of the Enlightened mind awaits.

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Summary: A link between science and ancient mysteries
Review: Grof tries to answer the basic questions about the nature of reality depending on his 40 year research on psychedelics and consciousness. In his attempt he links the pre-industrial cultural flora with modern scientific findings. An amazing and shcoking book for those who assume to live in a material world.

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Summary: Amazing
Review: The book amazed me up to a certain level. It was very thorough and I found the topics pretty interesting. While searching for some answers about who we are, this book has convinced me that maybe the questions were and are wrong. I recommend everyone interested in parapsychology, reincarnation and issues like that read this book. Especially the chapter about good and evil was full of ideas that had never crossed my mind. Very fulfilling.

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Summary: getting to know you, getting to know all about you.
Review: this book is a must read for anyone sincerely searching self knowledge. it covers much ground regarding the magnificence of life and existence itself. breathtakingly deep and broad in its scope: personal experience of "God", ways to find "God". the validity of personal mystical experience, ways of getting there, the reason evil exists, the nature of ultimate good, the list goes on and on. Stanislav Grof is a master of the transpersonal and speaks "as one having authority". i can't possibly rate this book highly enough. buy it! its a feast for the mind as well as the heart.

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Summary: Grof's "facts" highly questionable
Review: While initialy intruiged by this summary of his life's work, I was very dissappointed to see Grof listing as fact a story of coincidence which did not ever happen and, in fact, was apparently first told as a joke by Buddy Hacket. For those of you that buy this book, the story of Neil Armstrong and Mr. Gorsky is not true. This laziness on Grof's part makes me question the other "unbeleivable" passages he casually mentions. Entire careers are ruined on this type of careless error.