Stanislav Grof Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.”

“I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.”

“Walt Disney was my great hero.”

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

“It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.”

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

“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.”

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

“The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.”

“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.”