Quotes By Stanislav Grof

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

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.

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.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

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

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

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.

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.

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.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

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.

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

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 instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.