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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. "
Stanislav Grof
Relationship
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" I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies. "
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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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" If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. "
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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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" 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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" Walt Disney was my great hero. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. "
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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. "
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" Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. "
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Open
" Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness. "
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Open
Feel
" The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. "
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Death
" 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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Believe
Survival
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" 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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Hope
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" 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. "
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Death
Time
Spiritual
" 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 human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. "
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Existence
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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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Without
Possible
Existence
" I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in. "
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Tools
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" It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence. "
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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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Research
Final
" 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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" As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. "
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" Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. "
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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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" 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
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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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