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Stanislav Grof

Born: July 1, 1931

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Occupation: Psychologist

Biography: 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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Stanislav Grof

“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

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“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

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Stanislav Grof

“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

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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

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

“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

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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.”

- 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

“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

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“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

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Stanislav Grof

“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

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Stanislav Grof

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

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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.”

- 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

“Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.”

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

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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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