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" 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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" 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

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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. "

" Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. "

" Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. "

" Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. "

" The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world. "

" 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. "

" An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. "

" 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. "

" As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. "

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

" 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. "

" Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. "

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

" Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. "

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

Stanislav Grof

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. "

" 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. "

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

" I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies. "

Stanislav Grof

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. "