Spiritual Development: Han F. De Wit's and Stanislav Grof's Differing Approaches
Zygon® September 2, 2001 K. Helmut Reich 23 citations
Spirituality is an essential part of being human, and a life based solely on materialism is impoverished. Han F. de Wit argues that spirituality cultivates courage, compassion, joy, clarity of mind, and wisdom. Stanislav Grof focuses on personal spiritual experiences gained through altered states of consciousness. Both authors draw on long-term personal experiences and those of others to define spirituality and describe approaches to spiritual development. They contend that third-person knowledge and judgments about humanness must be supplemented by appropriately derived first-person knowledge and judgments about humaneness.