“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
“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.”
NatureAll 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“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“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“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“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 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“I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.”
Movies“The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.”
Death“Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.”
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“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 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“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“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“In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.”
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 elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.”
Death“The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.”
Relationship