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Quotes by Stanislav Grof
- The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
- The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
- The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
- The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
- 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.
- The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
- The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
- There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
- There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
- Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
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