Top 50 Quotes by Stanislav Grof

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

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

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

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.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

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

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

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

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

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.