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Work #898 · Mid

Realms of the Human Unconscious

Stanislav Grof
1975 · English
Psychiatric-psychological treatise · Late-twentieth-century transpersonal psychology / psychedelic therapy

Grof's 1975 founding work of LSD-assisted psychotherapy — perinatal matrices and transpersonal psychology

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Attribute Realms of the Human Unconscious (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Relational
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Non-Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Bi-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Relational
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Non-Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Multiple
Observer · Space Instance Multiple
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Partial
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Non-Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method —
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Relational
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Reversible
Information · Ontological Status Relational
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

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Time

Realms of the Human Unconscious

The compressed time of altered states and the temporal access to perinatal memory.

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Space

Realms of the Human Unconscious

The intrauterine-perinatal space and the transpersonal field.

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Matter

Realms of the Human Unconscious

The embodied self in altered states.

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Observer

Realms of the Human Unconscious

The LSD-explorer mapping the unconscious.

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Energy

Realms of the Human Unconscious

Energies of perinatal-transpersonal experience.

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Information

Realms of the Human Unconscious

The four-level cartography of the unconscious.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Realms of the Human Unconscious

Grof's Realms of the Human Unconscious: foundational for transpersonal psychology and the modern psychedelic-research renaissance.