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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. "
Stanislav Grof
Energy
Research
Project
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" Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. "
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. "
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" I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies. "
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" The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. "
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Individual
" 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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Existence
" Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. "
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" 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. "
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Death
Back
" 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. "
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Death
Personality
" 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 time of biological demise. "
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Time
" The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world. "
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Fear
" Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. "
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Science
Sense
Open
" 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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Who
Two
" There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. "
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Without
Start
Powerful
" 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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Time
Data
Been
" 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. "
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Experience
Medical
Sitting
" 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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Important
Death
" 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. "
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Thinking
Cells
Science
" When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. "
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Literature
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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. "
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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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Walt Disney
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