Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. "
Stanislav Grof
People
More
Complicated
Related Quotes:
" Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth. "
Stanislav Grof
Earth
Belief
Consciousness
" When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. "
Stanislav Grof
Psychedelic
Natural
Literature
" The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world. "
Stanislav Grof
World
Relationship
Life
" 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
Without
Possible
Existence
" Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. "
Stanislav Grof
Science
Sense
Open
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Experience
Death
Welcome
" There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. "
Stanislav Grof
Without
Start
Powerful
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Fear
Death
Time
" The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. "
Stanislav Grof
Important
Connection
Death
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Time
Data
Been
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Culture
Race
Maps
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
New
Who
Two
" Walt Disney was my great hero. "
Stanislav Grof
Disney
Walt Disney
Hero
" Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness. "
Stanislav Grof
Spiritual
Open
Feel
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
People
Death
Back
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Memory
Science
Any
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Life
Key
Death
" In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival. "
Stanislav Grof
Survival
Hope
World
" Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. "
Stanislav Grof
Were
Training
Psychedelic
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Relationship
Brain
Nature
" There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. "
Stanislav Grof
Practice
Death
Spiritual
" Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. "
Stanislav Grof
Born
Model
Said
" The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology. "
Stanislav Grof
Individual
Creative
Psychology
" Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. "
Stanislav Grof
Space
Us
Consciousness
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Experience
Medical
Sitting
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Death
Time
Spiritual
" An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. "
Stanislav Grof
Important
Opening
Radical
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Transformation
Hope
Crisis
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Body
Death
Personality
" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
Thinking
Cells
Science