Stanislav Grof Quotes

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• For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be…
• If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
• Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the…
• There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
• Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the…
• Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap…
• The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human…
• It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst…
• The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
• Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
• The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human…
• The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us…
• The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
• I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are…
• Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These…
• The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
• I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
• I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
• I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
• In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

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