Death Quote by Stanislav Grof

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

— Stanislav Grof

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

Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of…

— Stanislav Grof

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

— Stanislav Grof

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees…

— Stanislav Grof

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

— Stanislav Grof

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

— Stanislav Grof

I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing…

— Stanislav Grof

By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one…

— Stanislav Grof

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

— Stanislav Grof

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

— Stanislav Grof

LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms…

— Stanislav Grof