94 Quotes by Stanislav Grof

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

There is a similarity between the LSD effects and the experiences associated with the process of dying.

My first LSD session in 1956. Since then my life has never been the same.

I volunteered for an LSD session. It was such a powerful opening of my own unconscious that I became more interested in psychedelics than in psychoanalysis.

Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his death.

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

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air. Jung concluded that Philemon taught him psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. This helped Jung to understand that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend.