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Stanislav Grof Quotes


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

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.

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

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.

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

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.

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

Walt Disney was my great hero.

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

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