By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits,… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“The key experiential approach I now use to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness and gain access to the unconscious and superconscious psyche is Holotropic… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people.… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“Our ability to leave our physical bodies and travel to other places has been demonstrated in controlled laboratory experiments by researchers with good academic… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
