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Stanislav Grof Quotes

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In an effort to find an explanation, he or she might attribute the ominous feelings to poisons, electromagnetic radiation, evil forces, secret organizations, or even extraterrestrial influences. The spontaneous emergence of memories involving intrauterine disturbances or of the onset of the delivery from the womb, seems to be among important causes of paranoid states.  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) If consciousness can function independently of the body during one’s lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) 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 Quotes) The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) 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  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) 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  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual’s way of being in the world  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) 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  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) 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  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) 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  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) 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 Quotes) These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This unique property of psychedelics makes it possible to study psychological undercurrents that govern our experiences and behaviors to a depth that cannot be matched by any other methods and tools available in modern mainstream science. In emotional and psychosomatic disorders, for positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution  (Stanislav Grof Quotes) The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world  (Stanislav Grof Quotes)
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