Stanislav Grof Quotes (54 quotes)
![]() | “A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.” ―Stanislav Grof Source/Notes: From the article "Alternative Cosmologies and Altered States" by Stanislav Grof, Noetic Sciences Review, Winter 1994, pages 21-29 |
![]() | “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.” ―Stanislav Grof Source/Notes: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research (2000 edition), p. 268, Chapter 7 |
![]() | “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.” ―Stanislav Grof Source/Notes: From the article "Alternative Cosmologies and Altered States" by Stanislav Grof, Noetic Sciences Review, Winter 1994, pages 21-29 |
![]() | “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 Source/Notes: From the article "Alternative Cosmologies and Altered States" by Stanislav Grof, Noetic Sciences Review, Winter 1994, pages 21-29 |
![]() | “An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.” ―Stanislav Grof Source/Notes: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research (2000 edition), p. 267, Chapter 7 |
![]() | “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.” ―Stanislav Grof Source/Notes: From the article "Alternative Cosmologies and Altered States" by Stanislav Grof, Noetic Sciences Review, Winter 1994, pages 21-29 |
![]() | “As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.” ―Stanislav Grof Source/Notes: From an interview by Daniel Redwood DC, 1995 |
![]() | “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.” ―Stanislav Grof Source/Notes: From the article "Alternative Cosmologies and Altered States" by Stanislav Grof, Noetic Sciences Review, Winter 1994, pages 21-29 |
![]() | “Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.” ―Stanislav Grof Source/Notes: From the article "Alternative Cosmologies and Altered States" by Stanislav Grof, Noetic Sciences Review, Winter 1994, pages 21-29 |
![]() | “"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.” ―Stanislav Grof Source/Notes: From the article "Alternative Cosmologies and Altered States" by Stanislav Grof, Noetic Sciences Review, Winter 1994, pages 21-29 |
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Stanislav Grof

Born: July 1, 1931 (age 87)
Nationality: Czechoslovakian
Occupation: Psychologist
Bio: Stanislav Grof is a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering 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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