Quotes By Stanislav Grof

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

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.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.