Quotes By Stanislav Grof

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

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.

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.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

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.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of 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.

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.

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.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.