Stanislav Grof

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

— Stanislav Grof

#context #cultures #died #dying #extended

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#freud #inadequate #model #said #simply

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#change #consciousness #created #crisis #develop

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#brazilian #ceremonies #i #mexican #north

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#giving #giving up #i #movies #regretted

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. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#basically #conversion #decided #enroll #experience

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#animated #art #childhood #i #interested

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#after #body #consciousness #could #death

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#detail #instances #memories #objectively #remarkable

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#became #because #complicated #experimentation #more