Stanislav Grof Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

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

  Stanislav Grof

  Time, Space, Psychology

• 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

• The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

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  Two, Fields, Consciousness

• These 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.

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  Unique, Emotional, Personality

• Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

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  Positive, Healing, Personality

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

• 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

• If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

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  Body, Able, Consciousness

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.234, SUNY Press

• 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

• 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

• Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

  Stanislav Grof

  Death, Body, Consciousness

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

  Stanislav Grof

  Karma, Believe, Survival

• 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

• By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.

  Stanislav Grof

  Interesting, Drug, Understanding

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Stanislav Grof

  Technology, Use, Substance

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

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