Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.
Stanislav GrofThe study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
Stanislav GrofPatients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
Stanislav GrofThis sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.
Stanislav Grof