Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof
Stanislav "Stan" Grofis 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...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 July 1931
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memories children people
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.
creative psychology revision
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
art childhood animated
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
powerful people chance
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.
data evaluation events
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
challenges understanding finals
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
spiritual philosophical reality
Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.
memories past details
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
giving-up giving animated
I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
book unique blood
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.
school sitting lectures
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
memories dna brain
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.
brain locks world
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.
impact world belief
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.