Psyche Unbound
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Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof
“A tour de force, weaving together insights into the transformative nature of consciousness throughout––and beyond––our lifespan.”
Psyche Unbound is an extraordinary compilation of 22
essays that honor the pathbreaking lifework of Stanislav
Grof, M.D., Ph.D., the world’s leading researcher in
psychedelic-assisted therapy, breathwork, and the
exploration of non-ordinary states of consciousness.
This Festschrift features contributions from thought
leaders of the last five decades, including a piece from
Joseph Campbell’s 1971 lecture in the Great Hall at
Cooper Union and Huston Smith’s 1976 summary of
Grof’s work as it relates to the study of religion and
mysticism.
More recent writing includes reflections by renowned
psychiatrists and researchers that discuss the importance
of Grof’s contributions on the current wave of interest
and research into psychedelic-assisted therapies and
alternative states of consciousness. Edited by Richard
Tarnas, Ph.D., and Sean Kelly, Ph.D., Psyche Unbound,
includes essays that explore Grof’s work on numerous
fronts including transpersonal sexual experiences,
implications for social and cultural change, comparative
studies with Asian religious systems, the perinatal
dimensions of Jean-Paul Sartre’s transformational
1935 mescaline experience, and parallel findings from
quantum and relativistic physics.
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Richard Tarnas
Richard Tarnas was born in 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland, of American parents. He grew up in Michigan, where he studied Greek, Latin, and the classics under the Jesuits. In 1968 he entered Harvard, where he studied Western intellectual and cultural history and depth psychology, graduating with an A.B. cum laude in 1972. For ten years he lived and worked at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, studying with Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, Huston Smith, James Hillman, and Stanislav Grof, and later served as director of programs and education. He received his Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute in 1976. From 1980 to 1990, he wrote The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of Western thought which became a best seller and continues to be a widely used text in universities throughout the world. He is the founding director of the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he currently teaches. He gives many public lectures and workshops in the U.S. and abroad.