Czechoslovakian - Psychologist | July 1, 1931 -
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
Stanislav Grof
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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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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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The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
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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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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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In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
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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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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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Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
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Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
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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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