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Stanislav Grof
Czechoslovakian
Psychologist
Born:
Jul 1
,
1931
Consciousness
Death
Important
People
Radical
Time
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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.
Stanislav Grof
Death
Independently
Able
Could
Lifetime
Same
After
Body
Function
Consciousness
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
Stanislav Grof
Life
Great
Relationship
World
Our
Impact
Concerning
Human
Ethical
Human Life
Beliefs
Reincarnation
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
Hope
Transformation
Radical
Crisis
Paradigm
Brought
Rise
Only
New
Global
Real
New Level
Western
Dominance
Current
Might
Level
Consciousness
Inner
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
Stanislav Grof
Death
Survival
Karma
Behavior
Believe
Our
Implications
Very
After
Whether
Serious
Reincarnation
Consciousness
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
Stanislav Grof
Training
Invaluable
Were
Reported
Psychedelic
Patients
Dying
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
Stanislav Grof
Spiritual
Awareness
Tools
Sacred
Open
Feel
Very
Psychedelics
Experienced
Us
Much
Who
Many
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
Stanislav Grof
Death
Fear
Spirituality
Important
Radical
Type
Oneself
Freeing
Opening
Universal
Consequence
Walt Disney was my great hero.
Stanislav Grof
Great
Hero
Walt
Walt Disney
Disney
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
People
Will
Having
Taking
Powerful
Without
Very
Psychedelics
Experiences
Happen
Against
Who
Start
Universal
Phenomenon
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
Death
Survival
Personality
Important
Extremely
Would
Would-Be
Part
Study
Since
Beyond
Likely
Issue
Survive
Human
To Survive
Body
Human Personality
Extend
Consciousness
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
Stanislav Grof
Creative
Energy
Radical
Totality
Individual
Most
Western
Revision
Psyche
Psychology
Requires
Creative Energy
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
Physics
Complementary
Paradoxical
Objects
Properties
New
Also
Infinite
Fields
Formula
Aspects
Show
Who
Beings
Consciousness
Humans
Two
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
Stanislav Grof
Death
Important
Archetypal
Important Role
Material
Role
Psyche
Human
Karmic
Human Psyche
Connection
Plays
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
Death
Knowledge
People
Other
Back
Possible
Freely
Journeys
Makes
Move
Forth
Realm
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
Life
Memories
People
Remember
Other
Emerge
Seem
Small
Small Children
Previous
Previous Life
Talk
Another
Exist
Begin
Children
After
Place
Body
Who
Many
Describe
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
Earth
System
Independently
Physical
Lifetime
Developed
Return
Another
Cultures
Many
Belief
Unit
Reincarnation
Consciousness
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
Spend
Possible
Entire
Mystical
Lifetime
Without
Existence
Being
Experiencing
Even
Aware
Ever
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
Stanislav Grof
Memories
Sometimes
Detail
Some
Objectively
Remarkable
Verified
Accuracy
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
Experience
School
Enroll
Introductory
Almost
Like
Read
Freud
Lectures
Sitting
Psychoanalysis
Decided
Conversion
Medical
Medical School
Basically
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
Stanislav Grof
Part
Taken
Well
Mexican
North
North American
American
Brazilian
Ceremonies
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
Stanislav Grof
Family
People
Tribe
Clan
Context
Cultures
Died
Dying
Extended
Extended Family
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
Stanislav Grof
Positive
Death
Healing
Personality
Fear
Transformation
Evolution
Terms
Coming
Conducive
Consciousness
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
Science
Memory
Network
Genes
Material
Materialistic
Brain
According
Any
Requires
Molecules
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