Quotes by Stanislav Grof

About Stanislav Grof:

Stanislav is a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche. Grof received the VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Václav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007.
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Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

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The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Stanislav Grof

Walt Disney was my great hero.

Stanislav Grof

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.

Stanislav Grof

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

Stanislav Grof

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.

Stanislav Grof

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

Stanislav Grof

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

Stanislav Grof

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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I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

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It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

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Author Bio

  • NameStanislav Grof
  • DescriptionCzech pychiatrist
  • BornJuly 1, 1931
  • CountryCzech Republic; United States Of America
  • ProfessionPsychiatrist; Psychologist; Writer; Physician
  • Awards