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
Stanislav Grof quotes about
reality animal air
Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air. Jung concluded that Philemon taught him psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. This helped Jung to understand that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend.
reality important dimensions
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
reality discovery understanding
Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.
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.
reality bridges differences
Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.
real community society
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.
real personal-transformation humanity
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
reality play creating
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.
became interested opening powerful
I volunteered for an LSD session. It was such a powerful opening of my own unconscious that I became more interested in psychedelics than in psychoanalysis.
life session since
My first LSD session in 1956. Since then my life has never been the same.
associated effects process similarity
There is a similarity between the LSD effects and the experiences associated with the process of dying.
ease time transition
Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his death.
people psychedelic complicated
It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.
telescopes psychedelic lsd
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.