“Uncomplicated birth seems to be the blueprint for coping with all later difficult situations in life. Various complications, such as prolonged and debilitating delivery, the use of forceps, or heavy anesthesia appear to be correlated to specific problems in dealing… — 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
