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You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Stan Asoph Groff. For more than half a century, Stan has been a pioneer in the research of non-ordinary states of consciousness. He's the author of many books

including realms of the human unconscious, beyond the brain, and most recently

holotropic breath work, a new approach to self-exploration and therapy.

With sounds true, Stan has created the book, When the Impossible Happens, it Ventures in Nonordinary Realities.

In the audio learning program, the Transpersonal Vision.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge,

Stan and I spoke about the lessons that can be learned from

non-ordinary states, the idea of consciousness, independent of the brain, as well as the

uses and goals of holotropic breath work. of the I'd love to begin stand by giving our listeners a bit of background and a framework for

your work and your teaching and I wonder if you can just tell us a little bit about your early work and specifically

how you became so interested in non-ordinary states of consciousness.

My original interest in psychiatry came from reading Freud.

Just at a time when I was actually committing to a completely different profession, I wanted to work in animated movies.

And a friend of mine gave me introductory lectures to psychoanalysis and I started reading it in the evening

and couldn't stop. I read through the night and within a few days I decided this is what I want

to be, I want to be a psycho analyst so I enrolled in the

medical school instead and then as I was getting deeply deeper it sort of

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