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Stanislav Grof Quote: “Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.”

51. “Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “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.”

52. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.”

53. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.”

54. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “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.”

55. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.”

56. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: “The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.”

57. “This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: “The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It’s a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn’t mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.”

58. “We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It’s a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn’t mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “Walt Disney was my great hero.”

59. “Walt Disney was my great hero.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.”

60. “When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.”

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

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.”

62. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.”

63. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “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.”

65. “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.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.”

66. “I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “It is possible to spend one’s entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.”

67. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “In an effort to find an explanation, he or she might attribute the ominous feelings to poisons, electromagnetic radiation, evil forces, secret organizations, or even extraterrestrial influences. The spontaneous emergence of memories involving intrauterine disturbances or of the onset of the delivery from the womb, seems to be among important causes of paranoid states.”

68. “In an effort to find an explanation, he or she might attribute the ominous feelings to poisons, electromagnetic radiation, evil forces, secret organizations, or even extraterrestrial influences. The spontaneous emergence of memories involving intrauterine disturbances or of the onset of the delivery from the womb, seems to be among important causes of paranoid states.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.”

69. “I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.”

70. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “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.”

71. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “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.”

72. “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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Stanislav Grof Quote: “Very few people, including most scientists, realize that we have absolutely no proof that consciousness is actually produced by the brain and not even a remote notion of how something like that could possibly happen. In spite of it, this basic metaphysical assumption remains one of the leading myths of Western materialistic science and has a profound influence on our entire society.”

73. “Very few people, including most scientists, realize that we have absolutely no proof that consciousness is actually produced by the brain and not even a remote notion of how something like that could possibly happen. In spite of it, this basic metaphysical assumption remains one of the leading myths of Western materialistic science and has a profound influence on our entire society.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “The human mind is so complex that many different theories can be constructed, all of which seem to be logical, coherent, and explain major facts of observation, yet at the same time are mutually incompatible or actually contradict each other.”

74. “The human mind is so complex that many different theories can be constructed, all of which seem to be logical, coherent, and explain major facts of observation, yet at the same time are mutually incompatible or actually contradict each other.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “Materialistic scientists have not been able to produce any convincing evidence that consciousness is a product of the neurophysiological processes in the brain.”

75. “Materialistic scientists have not been able to produce any convincing evidence that consciousness is a product of the neurophysiological processes in the brain.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “From observations arising from deep experiential therapy, the determined striving for external goals and the pursuit of success do very little in overcoming feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem, no matter the outcome of these endeavors. The feelings of inferiority cannot be resolved by mobilizing one’s forces to overcompensate them, but by confronting them experientially and surrendering to them.”

76. “From observations arising from deep experiential therapy, the determined striving for external goals and the pursuit of success do very little in overcoming feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem, no matter the outcome of these endeavors. The feelings of inferiority cannot be resolved by mobilizing one’s forces to overcompensate them, but by confronting them experientially and surrendering to them.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “And, as Albert Einstein pointed out, it is impossible to solve problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”

77. “And, as Albert Einstein pointed out, it is impossible to solve problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”

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Stanislav Grof Quote: “In view of the escalating global crisis brought about by the materialistic orientation of Western technological civilization, it has become obvious that we are paying a great price for having denied and rejected spirituality. We have banned a force that nourishes, empowers, and gives meaning to human existence from our lives.”

78. “In view of the escalating global crisis brought about by the materialistic orientation of Western technological civilization, it has become obvious that we are paying a great price for having denied and rejected spirituality. We have banned a force that nourishes, empowers, and gives meaning to human existence from our lives.”

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