The Cosmic Game by Stanislav Grof

‘The Cosmic Game’ is perhaps Grof’s best book. It is written in a very fluent style and summarizes the most important discoveries of his LSD research and research findings with holotropic states consciousness, that doesn’t grapple with conceptual issues.

This superbly written book on transpersonal psychology and spirituality is written in a normal and descriptive language. It is clearly a book written by a true erudite that has a clear literary talent and an incredible wealth of profound knowledge of mythology, psychology, religion, and cosmology, besides having a sharp scientific perception and reasoning that is always empirical first and conceptual second.

The book is clearly structured and an overview of the contents shows that it’s not a ‘research report’ of experiments but a sublimation of such research and retrospective in its prose that makes it contemplative and ‘religious’ in the sense that the book talks about our true ‘religio’, the link with our source, of our inner divinity.

1. Introduction
2. Cosmos, Consciousness, and Spirit
3. The Cosmic Creative Principle
4. The Process of Creation
5. The Ways to Reunion with the Cosmic Source
6. The Problem of Good and Evil
7. Birth, Sex and Death: The Cosmic Connection
8. The Mystery of Karma and Reincarnation
9. The Taboo against Knowing Who You Are
10. Playing the Cosmic Game
11. The Sacred and the Profane