94 Quotes by Stanislav Grof

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

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

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

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.

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.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

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.