Resumo de Realms Of The Human Unconscious(observations From Lsd Research)

?The capacity of LSD and some other drugs to exteriorise otherwise invisible phenomena and processes and make them the subject of scientific investigation gives these substances a unique potential as diagnostic instruments and as research tools for the exploration of the human mind. It does not seem inappropriate and exaggerated to compare their potential significance for psychiatry and psychology to that of a microscope for medicine or the telescope for astronomy?

Obviously, from the outset, I must categorically state that I do not condone the use of LSD or any of its counterparts. If ingested, make sure you are with a friend who you can trust, for it can have adverse side effects. Having never been privy to experiencing LSD first hand, I cannot validate the findings in this book, what I can do however, is comment upon Stanislav Grof and the content of this book from an unbiased outlook.

First and foremost Stanislav is a scientist and so conveys his work in a very ordered fashion, the book, as is his work, is well structured and I believe he is honest with his findings.

The accounts he tells us about can at times seem quite bizarre, and it?s the readers? prerogative if they are believed or not. As with most psychiatric studies, the data is empirical and so, as with all empirical findings, with any biased outlook from the outset, results can seem to fit in with the observer?s hypothesis. However, to be fair to Grof, I think he has done his best for this not to be the case, as some of his findings were not expected.

This book is more for psychiatrists and psychologists or ?would be psychiatrists? than it is for the general public, some terms can confuse the reader if they have not come across them before.

There is some good news at the end of this review! You do not need to take LSD to experience some of what he is discussing within this book. Stanislav and his wife Christina have created a ?Holotrophic Therapy?, as they call it. This is outlined in another of Stanislav?s books, ?The Adventure of Self-Discovery?, which induces a different state of consciousness without the use of drugs.

?Realms of the Human Unconscious? is worth reading for this ?fringe? material and also for not letting Grof?s work of the 60?s and 70?s go unnoticed.

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