Quote

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

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
Something
Catalyst
Like
Psychedelic
Amplifier
Processes
Amplifiers
Properly
Telescope
Mental
Microscope
Process
Microscopes
Become
Telescopes
Used
Psychiatry

More quotes by Stanislav Grof

Image
By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.
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
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
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
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.
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 elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
Stanislav Grof
Image
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.
Stanislav Grof
Image
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
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
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
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
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.
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
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
Stanislav Grof
Image
Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.
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
Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.
Stanislav Grof
Image
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.
Stanislav Grof
Image
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.
Stanislav Grof