The book "BEYOND THE BRAIN" sums up the author's thirty years of research in the field of transpersonal psychology and therapy. In the course of studying unusual states of consciousness, Stanislav Grof comes to the conclusion that there is a significant gap in modern scientific theories of consciousness and psyche, which do not take into account the importance of prebiographical (prenatal and perinatal) and transpersonal (transpersonal) levels. he proposes a new, expanded cartography of the psyche, including modern psychological and ancient mystical descriptions. The author challenges traditional approaches to psychopathology, viewing it as a spiritual crisis - dramatic steps in the movement of consciousness towards greater wholeness and integration. The psychotherapeutic approaches he proposes are based on the use of the human body’s original abilities for self-healing. The book unfolds a panorama of the emergence and development of transpersonal psychology as a new science, based on the latest discoveries in physics, chaos theory, cybernetics, psychology and many other disciplines.