The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
Stanislav GrofComing to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
Stanislav GrofThe problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species.
Stanislav GrofIt is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.
Stanislav GrofIn the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
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