Stanislav Grof Quotes

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

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

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

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.

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

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

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

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.

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 l...

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 foll...