Stanislav Grof Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.”

“The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.”

“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.”