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LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.
— Stanislav Grof
Walt Disney was my great hero.
— Stanislav Grof
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.
— 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
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
— Stanislav Grof
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
— Stanislav Grof
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
— Stanislav Grof
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
— Stanislav Grof
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
— Stanislav Grof
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
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
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
— Stanislav Grof
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
— 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
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
— Stanislav Grof
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating realityitself. — Stanislav Grof
I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
— Stanislav Grof
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
— Stanislav Grof
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
— Stanislav Grof
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
— Stanislav Grof
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
— Stanislav Grof
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
— Stanislav Grof
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
— Stanislav Grof
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.
— Stanislav Grof
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
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Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
— 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
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
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
— 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
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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