Prenatal & Perinatal Matrices (Stanislav Groff)

Overview: Prenatal & Perinatal Matrices. CO-EX (Condensed Experiences) Systems. The Trauma of Birth & its Connection with Psychological Disturbance, Suicide & Ecstasy. Differences Between Spiritual Evolution & Psychiatric Disturbance. Addiction. Holotropic Breathwork.

Beyond the Brain seriously challenges the existing neurophysiological models of the brain.
Grof makes a bold argument that understanding of the perinatal and transpersonal levels changes much of how we view both mental illness and mental health. His reinterpretation of some of the most agonizing aspects of human behavior proves thought provoking for both laypersons and professional therapists.

Dearcolleagues,

Read any chapter from the suggested google book “Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy”. Then write a summary of the chapter.
Then, choose 3 interesting points made by the writer and comment on them. In your commentary, include why you think each of them is important, what will be the benefit if each of them is incorporated in the way you suggest in our professional experience and finally what will be the loss if we miss this integration of each point in our professional experience. 

That is 4 questions.
1. Summary
2. Choice of the 3 points. Justify each choice.
3. Benefits (each)
4. Losses (each)

Put the answers to all 4 questions in your study diary which you will submit to your tutor/ mentor at the end of this lesson/ unit. Thank you. 

“When someone is reliving the memory of birth he or she often confronts extreme forms of fear of death, loss of control, and insanity; as a result he or she may behave in most unusual ways and the condition can have a psychotic-like character.” Stanislav Grof, M.D.