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