Stanislav Grof Quotes

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• Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

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  Reality, Play, Creating

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (2009). “The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• We 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.

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  Animal, Skulls, Space

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (2009). “The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

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  Believe, Essentials, Tools

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• Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

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  Time, Space, Psychology

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• The 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.

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  Lying, Personality, Levels

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.219, SUNY Press

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• A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

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  Real, Community, Society

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• Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

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  Karma, Believe, Survival

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• Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

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  Spiritual, Philosophical, Reality

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• At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

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  Mass Destruction, Greed, Humanity

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

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  Telescopes, Psychedelic, Lsd

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

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  Unbiased, Investigation, Scientism

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.230, SUNY Press

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• In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

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  Real, Personal Transformation, Humanity

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• Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.

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  Reality, Bridges, Differences

  Stanislav Grof (1985). “Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy”, p.16, SUNY Press

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• He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Messages

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (1992). “The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives”, Harpercollins

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• Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

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  Culture, Earth, Return

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.229, SUNY Press

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• There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

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  Brain, Needs, Revision

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.230, SUNY Press

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• An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

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  Fear, Important, Spirituality

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

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  Technology, Use, Substance

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.260, SUNY Press

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• We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.

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  Mean, Thinking, Dimensions

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• It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

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  Lifetime, Existence, Mystical

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• The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

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  World, Way, Individual

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• This 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.

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  Perfect, Trying, World

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (1992). “The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives”, Harpercollins

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• The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

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  Individual, Existence, Shows

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• Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

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  Children, Memories, People

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• The 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.

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  Issues, Personality, Survival

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