Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
Stanislav GrofComing to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
Stanislav GrofAn important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
Stanislav GrofThe 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 GrofResearch challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
Stanislav GrofThese substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This unique property of psychedelics makes it possible to study psychological undercurrents that govern our experiences and behaviors to a depth that cannot be matched by any other methods and tools available in modern mainstream science. In emotional and psychosomatic disorders, for positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
Stanislav Grof