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" Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. "
Stanislav Grof
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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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" I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. "
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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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" 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 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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" The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world. "
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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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Data
Been
" Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. "
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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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" The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world. "
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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. "
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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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Natural
Literature
" I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies. "
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Up
Giving
Say
" I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in. "
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Believe
Tools
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" Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. "
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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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People
More
Complicated
" Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. "
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Were
Training
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" 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. "
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Memory
Science
Any
" Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. "
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Space
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" An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. "
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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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Spiritual
Open
Feel
" 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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Individual
Creative
Psychology
" It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence. "
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Possible
Existence
Way
" The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. "
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Existence
Human
Individual
" As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. "
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Energy
Research
Project
" 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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Medical
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" There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. "
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Death
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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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Same
Death
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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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Fear
Personality
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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. "
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