“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.”
Nature
“The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.”
DeathAll Quotes by Stanislav Grof
“Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.”
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 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.”
Death“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“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“The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.”
Death“I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.”
Movies“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.”
Death“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“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“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“Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.”
Death“The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.”
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“If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.”
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“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