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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.

Stanislav Grof

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Stanislav Grof
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: July 1
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