Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. — 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
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“Experiences of BPM II are best characterized by the triad: fear of death, fear of never coming back, and fear of going… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring… — 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 experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully… — 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
“According to Freudian psychology, the ego is that part of us that allows us to correctly perceive external reality and function well… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. — 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
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
There is a similarity between the LSD effects and the experiences associated with the process of dying. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us… — 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
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his 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 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
