Essays on Grof

L: Coming of age ceremonies are rituals, and rituals are important to humans, particularly in helping to keep the culture alive. We have to understand that these rituals are embedded within cultures. J: Using words like ‘savage’ to describe a cultural practice shows how we judge people from other cultures that are not our own. If you live with lions everyday, then dealing with lions is something you have to learn, just like Navajo women have to learn how to work with corn that they eat everyday. I thus support the point that different cultures ask different things from ...

Elements of greed and violence have been in existence since the start of humankind and have affected human thought and processes. There has been progress and substantial growth throughout history due to social, technological and political change. However, the proponents of greed and violence continue to threaten basic human survival. Imagery is used by Stanislav Grof to elucidate the various social forms that threaten various aspects of the human society. The symbolic manifestation of what is characterized in the pictures is what happening the world over from the likes of terrorism and world leaders and aristocrats that drive their ...

Introduction

Is there a life after death? This is one of the questions that most people in the world have been asking themselves for years. The survival of consciousness after death is a very complex situation for most people in the world. This is the reason why it has been discussed by many philosophers as well as other people in the world. According to the researches that have been conducted by the scientist is that, they believe that the consciousness and the mind are connected in that the they functioning of how the brain works even after death (Stanislav Grof & Marjorie). The ...