Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
Stanislav GrofI believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development.
Stanislav GrofThe psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
Stanislav GrofWe are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.
Stanislav GrofPhilemon 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.
Stanislav Grof