“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
“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.”
DeathAll Quotes by Stanislav Grof
“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 have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.”
Movies“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“Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.”
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“Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.”
Science“I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.”
Movies“The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.”
Death“Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.”
Death“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“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.”
Death“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“The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.”
Relationship“Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.”
Death“Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.”
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“The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.”
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 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.”
Death