Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world.… — 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
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
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
I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to… — 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… — 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
Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his death. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. — 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
