If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. - Stanislav Grof
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. - Stanislav Grof
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. - Stanislav Grof
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
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. - Stanislav Grof
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness. - Stanislav Grof
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. - Stanislav Grof
It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence. - Stanislav Grof
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. - Stanislav Grof
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
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
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence. - Stanislav Grof
It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. - Stanislav Grof
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. - Stanislav Grof
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
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. - Stanislav Grof
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. - Stanislav Grof
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. - Stanislav Grof
As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. - Stanislav Grof
Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious. - Stanislav Grof