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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. "
Stanislav Grof
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" Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. "
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" I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies. "
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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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" Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. "
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" Walt Disney was my great hero. "
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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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" 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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" In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival. "
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