The Human Encounter With Death by Stanislav Grof MD & Joan Halifax PhD (1978).pdf

The

Human Encounter

With Death

by STANISLAV GROF, M.D. & JOAN HALIFAX, PH.D.

with a Foreword by ELISABETH KÜBLER-ROSS, M.D

D 492

A Dutton Paperback

$3.95

In Canada $4.75

Stanislav Grof, M.D., and Joan Halifax, Ph.D., have a

unique authority and competence in the interpretation of

the human encounter with death. Theirs is an extraordin-

ary range of experience, in clinical research with psyche-

delic substances, in cross-cultural and medical

anthropology, and in the analysis of Oriental and archaic

literatures. Their pioneering work with psychedelics ad-

ministered to individuals dying of cancer opened domains

of experience that proved to be nearly identical to those al-

ready mapped in the "Books of the Dead," those mystical

visionary accounts of the posthumous journeys of the soul.

The Grof/Halifax book and these ancient resources both

show the imminent experience of death as a continuation of

what had been the hidden aspect of the experience of life.

— Joseph Campbell

The authors have assisted persons dying of cancer in tran-

scending the anxiety and anger around their personal fate.

Using psychedelics, they have guided the patients to death-

rebirth experiences that resemble transformation rites

practiced in a variety of cultures. Physician and medical

anthropologist join here in recreating an old art—the art of

dying.

—June Singer

The Human Encounter With Death is the latest of many re-

cent publications in the newly evolving field of thanatology.

It is, however, a quite different kind of book—one that be-

longs in every library of anyone who seriously tries to un-

derstand the phenomenon we call death.

—from the Foreword by

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Cover design by Leo Manso

ISBN: 0-525-47492-7

0378

THE HUMAN ENCOUNTER

WITH DEATH

S TANIS LAV G R OF , M.D., worked with psychedelic drugs at the

Psychiatric Institute in Prague before joining the Maryland

Psychiatric Research Center in 1967. Author of over sixty

articles in this field and the book Realms of the Human Un-

conscious: Observations from LSD Research, he is now

scholar-in-residence at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Cali-

fornia.

J OAN H ALIF AX , Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist, specializing

in psychiatry and religion. She is presently working with the

mythologist Joseph Campbell. She has done research at Co-

lumbia University, the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, the Uni-

versity of Miami School of Medicine, and the Maryland Psy-

chiatric Research Center.

The

Human

Encounter

With Death

STANISLAV GROF, M.D.,

JOAN HALIFAX, Ph.D.

W ITH A F OREW ORD BY

E LIS ABET H K Ü B LER -R OS S

A Dutton

Paperback

E.P. DUTTON

NEW YORK

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