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
fear important spirituality
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
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.
spiritual practice differences
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
spiritual believe healing
I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development.
spiritual two dying
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.
spiritual sacred tools
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
spiritual buddhism unique
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.
spiritual teacher messages
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.
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.