Stanislav Grof quotes

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope. (Stanislav Grof)
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world. View quote
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Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. View quote
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A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. View quote
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Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. View quote
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Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. View quote
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LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation. View quote
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LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry. View quote
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Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. View quote
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In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival. View quote
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A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know. (Stanislav Grof)
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. View quote
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Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious. View quote
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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 memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk. View quote
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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 personality that would be likely to survive death. View quote
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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 central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. View quote
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Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. View quote
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As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. View quote
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Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. View quote
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I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. View quote
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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)
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. View quote
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The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. View quote
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There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. View quote
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A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. View quote
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