In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
Stanislav GrofIt is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
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 GrofI 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 GrofConsciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.
Stanislav GrofLSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.
Stanislav Grof