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" The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world. "
Stanislav Grof
World
Relationship
Life
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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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" Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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Been
" The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. "
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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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Fear
" In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. "
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Accuracy
Memories
" I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies. "
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Up
Giving
Say
" 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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New
Who
Two
" 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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Experience
Death
Welcome
" 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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Practice
Death
Spiritual
" The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. "
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Important
Connection
Death
" 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
" 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. "
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Humanity
Hope
Time
" 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
" Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. "
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Cultures
Tribe
People
" 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. "
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Transformation
Hope
Crisis
" 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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Earth
Belief
Consciousness
" Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. "
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Space
Us
Consciousness
" 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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Vision
She
Person
" 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
" Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. "
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End
Research
Final
" 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 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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Reality
Important
Death
" 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
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Sitting
" 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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Race
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