Reddit mentions of When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities

When the Impossible Happens

Amazon description of the book:

Feelings of oneness with other people, nature, and the universe. Encounters with extraterrestrials, deities, and demons. Out-of-body experiences and past-life memories. Science casts a skeptical eye. But Dr. Stanislav Grof—the psychiatric researcher who cofounded transpersonal psychology—believes otherwise.
When the Impossible Happens presents Dr. Grof 's mesmerizing firsthand account of over 50 years of inquiry into waters uncharted by classical psychology, one that will leave readers questioning the very fabric of our existence.
From his first LSD session that gave him a glimpse of cosmic consciousness to his latest work with Holotropic Breathwork, When the Impossible Happens will amaze readers with vivid explorations of topics such as:

· Temptations of a Non-Local Universe—experiments in astral projection

· Praying Mantis in Manhattan and other tales of synchronicity

· Trailing Clouds of Glory—remembering birth and prenatal life

· Dying and Beyond—survival of consciousness after death

When the Impossible Happens is an incredible opportunity to journey beyond ordinary consciousness, guaranteed to shake the foundations of what we assume to be reality, and sure to offer a new vision of our human potential.

I highly recommend you read When The Impossible Happens - Stanislav Grof, which talks about experiences like yours and other very similar phenomenon.

I really like Grof because he observes these phenomenon without trying to explain it away with reason and logic that obviously leaves one wanting, instead proposing we need to find a new way of understanding to account for these phenomenon.

Hi, I hope your day is going well! Thanks for connecting. Related to these topics, I would recommend the book Quadrivium, an article about the 'Octave of Energy', a collection of experiences by Stan Grof, titled "When the Impossible Happens" , and for online material you can tune into /r/holofractal, which has aggregated lots of material relevant to the quantum nature of reality.

This is the 'dry' approach. A stylistic and heartfelt seed can be sprouted by planting your attention in the gardens of Sufi mystic poetry, or say, by reading the stories of the Vedas and Upanishads.

Stephen Mitchell has done amazing work translating the Tao te Ching and the Bhagavad Gita.


"Deluded by identification with the ego, a person
thinks, 'I am the doer.'"

Krishna; Chapter 3, verse 27

Some of these occurences are called Synchronicities and there's a great read on it from the psychiatrist Stanislav Grof - When the impossible happens.

He also did a lot of work on pacients through working with LSD and does have quite some books about it and knows his stuff.
But this book concerns the things you want to know, I think you should definitely read it and as a man with a scientific mind have your world shaken up some more.

http://www.amazon.com/When-Impossible-Happens-Adventures-Non-Ordinary/dp/159179420X

When the Impossible Happens - Stanislav Grof http://www.amazon.com/When-Impossible-Happens-Adventures-Non-Ordinary/dp/159179420X