Stanislav Grof quotes

• 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. (Stanislav Grof)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. (Stanislav Grof)
• 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. (Stanislav Grof)
• Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. (Stanislav Grof)
• Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. (Stanislav Grof)
• 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)
• Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. (Stanislav Grof)
• Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. (Stanislav Grof)
• 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)
• Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. (Stanislav Grof)
• 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. (Stanislav Grof)
• I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies. (Stanislav Grof)
• I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies. (Stanislav Grof)
• 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)
• I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. (Stanislav Grof)
• If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. (Stanislav Grof)
• In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. (Stanislav Grof)
• In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival. (Stanislav Grof)
• 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)
• It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. (Stanislav Grof)
• It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence. (Stanislav Grof)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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. (Stanislav Grof)
• Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness. (Stanislav Grof)
• Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. (Stanislav Grof)

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