When the Impossible Happens

By Stanislav Grof,

Book cover of When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities

Book description

Feelings of oneness with other people, nature, and the universe. Encounters with extraterrestrials, deities, and demons. Out-of-body experiences and past-life memories. Science casts a skeptical eye. But Dr. Stanislav Grof-the psychiatric researcher who cofounded transpersonal psychology-believes otherwise.

When the Impossible Happens presents Dr. Grof 's mesmerizing firsthand account of over…

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1 author picked When the Impossible Happens as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is so amazing because it describes the real-life spiritual adventures of the legendary transpersonal psychologist, Dr. Stan Grof, who has taken many journeys into non-ordinary states of consciousness.

The book describes what becomes possible when we shift our awareness away from a mere materialist outlook on the world and give consciousness a fundamental role. I like to refer back to it, again and again, to remind myself that the limitations of my perception are the limitations of my mind: If I open up my mind, even the so-called impossible will begin to happen.  

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