A review by gingerliss
The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives by Hal Zina Bennett, Stanislav Grof

5.0

I wasn't always open to this kind of thing, seeing it as too wishy washy in the past, but the past year has been a bit of a spiritual revolution for me and I believe there's a lot more then the eye can see. I find Grof's theories to be very interesting and well supported. I think the human mind is definitely a lot more complicated than we think and I like the way Grof looks at the mind as being something not particularly part of our physical being. The book made me very interested in Holotropic Breathwork and it's something I would like to try at some point under professional instruction. This is, after Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth one of those books that, in a way, has been life changing. Or, well, perhaps, mind changing. I'm a lot more open to this type of thing now and after reading this I'm convinced that these theories are realistic. Grof manages to make everything connect logically and I think he definitely has a point.
I thought it was immensely interesting to read about all the different experience of different people going through the different levels of conciousness. looking forward to reading more by Grof as I found his writing to be very clear and concise and also gripping, not something you would particularly expect in a work of nonfiction.