Quote

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.

Stanislav Grof

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stanislav Grof
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: July 1
Academic
Physician
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
University Teacher
Writer
Praha
Would
Study
Survive
Since
Likely
Death
Issue
Part
Survival
Body
Personality
Human
Beyond
Humans
Consciousness
Extend
Important
Issues
Extremely

More quotes by Stanislav Grof

Image
I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
Stanislav Grof
Image
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
Stanislav Grof
Image
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
Stanislav Grof
Image
The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.
Stanislav Grof
Image
The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species.
Stanislav Grof
Image
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
Stanislav Grof
Image
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.
Stanislav Grof
Image
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
Stanislav Grof
Image
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
Stanislav Grof
Image
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.
Stanislav Grof
Image
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
Stanislav Grof
Image
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.
Stanislav Grof
Image
It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.
Stanislav Grof
Image
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
Stanislav Grof
Image
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.
Stanislav Grof
Image
I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development.
Stanislav Grof
Image
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.
Stanislav Grof
Image
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.
Stanislav Grof
Image
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
Stanislav Grof
Image
The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
Stanislav Grof