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Stanislav Grof

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    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.

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    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.

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    An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

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    A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

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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.

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    As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

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    At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

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    Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

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    Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

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    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.

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    Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

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    For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

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    Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

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    I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

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    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.

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    In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

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    In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

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    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.

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

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    It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

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    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.

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    It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

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    It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.

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    LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

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    LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

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    LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

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    Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

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    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.

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    Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

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    Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

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    Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air. Jung concluded that Philemon taught him psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. This helped Jung to understand that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend.

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

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    Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

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    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.

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    The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

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    The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

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

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    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.

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    The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.