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This 4 page paper discusses the book The Holotropic Mind by Stanislav Grof. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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was the proposition that we create our own reality, moment to moment, and that we can quite literally change the world around us by thinking. The Holotropic Mind deals
with the universe on much the same level, as not so much a physical creation with immutable laws and properties, but a constantly evolving structure in which the human mind
plays a significant role. This paper is a brief examination of the book. Discussion One of the foundational ideas of the book-perhaps the most important-is that traditional science
is incorrect in its assertion that the Universe came into being solely through physical processes: "Traditional science holds the belief that organic matter and life grew from the chemical
ooze of the primeval ocean solely through the random interactions of atoms and molecules" (Grof, 1993, p. 5). Its also argued that the appearance of multicellular organisms, complete with
central nervous systems, is also the result of random processes and "natural selection" (Grof, 1993, p. 5). And over the centuries, it has come to be the Western metaphysical
view that "consciousness is a byproduct of material processes occurring in the brain" (Grof, 1993, p. 5). That, says Grof, is ridiculous: "The probability that human consciousness ...
could have come into existence through the random interactions of inert matter has aptly been compared to that of a tornado blowing through a junkyard and accidentally assembling a 747
jumbo jet" (Grof, 1993, p. 5). Until very recently, all science was based on the Newtonian model, which has dictated what was acceptable or unacceptable as the structure of reality
and the way things work (Grof, 1993). A "normal person" therefore is one who is capable of looking at the Universe as described by Newton, taking in the "information
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