Czechoslovakian - Psychologist | July 1, 1931 -
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.
Stanislav Grof
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The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
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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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The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
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The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
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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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Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
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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.
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It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
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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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In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
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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.
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