“Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.”
Death
“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.”
DeathAll Quotes by 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.”
Death“In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.”
Hope“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.”
Science“Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.”
Death“An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.”
Death“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.”
Science“The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.”
Relationship“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.”
Future“The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.”
Death“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.”
Hope“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.”
Death“I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.”
Movies“Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.”
Death“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.”
Experience“Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.”
Death“Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.”
Science“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.”
Death“I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.”
Movies“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.”
Hope