Editing Bad trip (section)

===Stanislav Grof===
Psychiatrist [[Stanislav Grof]] once said in an interview:

{{blockquote|There is a tremendous danger of confusing the inner world with the outer world, so you'll be dealing with your inner realities but at the same time you are not even aware of what's happening, You perceive a sort of distortion of the world out there. So you can end up in a situation where you're weakening the resistances, your conscious is becoming more aware, but you're not really in touch with it properly, you're not really fully experiencing what's there, not seeing it for what it is. You get kind of deluded and caught into this.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Beyond Psychotic Experience - Stan Grof interviewed by Jon Atkinson |url=http://www.lycaeum.org/leda/docs/16869.shtml?ID=16869 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927122540/http://www.lycaeum.org/leda/docs/16869.shtml?ID=16869 |archive-date=2011-09-27 |access-date=2011-04-12}}</ref>}}

In a 1975 book, Grof suggested that painful and difficult experiences during a trip could be a result of the mind reliving experiences associated with birth, and that experiences of imprisonment, [[eschatological]] terror, or suffering far beyond anything imaginable in a normal state, if seen through to conclusion, often resolve into emotional, intellectual and spiritual breakthroughs. From this perspective, Grof suggests that interrupting a bad trip, while initially seen as beneficial, could potentially trap the tripper in unresolved psychological states. Grof also suggests that many cathartic experiences within psychedelic states, while not necessarily crises, may be the effects of consciousness entering a perinatal space.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grof |first=Stanislav |title=realms of the human unconscious - Observations from LSD research |publisher=souvenir press |year=1975 |isbn=0-285-64882-9 |pages=95–153}}</ref>