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• The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

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  Brain, Locks, World

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". www.maps.org. 1984.

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• The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

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  Creative, Psychology, Energy

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• Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

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  Animal, Thinking, Cells

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• It 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.

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  Sex, Essentials, Affair

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.154, SUNY Press

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• The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

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  Moving, Journey, People

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• I 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.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Healing

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• This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.

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  Book, Unique, Blood

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• Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

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  Race, Collective Unconscious, Culture

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

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  Death, Body, Consciousness

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• 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

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• Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

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  Spiritual, Two, Dying

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• Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

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  Spiritual, Tools, Sacred

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• It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.

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  Space, Ego, Usual

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

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• A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

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  Spiritual, Buddhism, Opportunity

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

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• 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.

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  Interesting, Drug, Understanding

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

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• 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

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• The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

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  Play, Important, Connections

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• 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

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• For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

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  Death, Heart, Keys

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• LSD 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.

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  Psychosis, Brain, Substance

  Stanislav Grof (2009). “When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities, Read How You Want Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

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  Spiritual, Practice, Differences

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• 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

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• LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

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  Powerful, Unique, Personality

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

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• Philemon 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.

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  Animal, Reality, Air

  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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• When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

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  Literature, Psychedelic, Natural

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