Czechoslovakian - Psychologist | July 1, 1931 -
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.
Stanislav Grof
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I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
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I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
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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.
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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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Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
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Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
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Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
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At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
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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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According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
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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.
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