Stanislav Grof Quotes

• The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

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• If consciousness can function independently of the body during one’s lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

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• In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

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• In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

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• Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

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

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• It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

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• It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

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• It is possible to spend one’s entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

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• Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

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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.

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• Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

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• The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual’s way of being in the world.

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• The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

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

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

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• The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

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• The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

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• The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

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• 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.

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Stanislav Grof (50)

Birth:	1st July, 1931
Nationality:	Czech
Profession:	Psychiatrist

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