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Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#body #consciousness #death #demonstrates #independently

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. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #brain #dna #genes #material

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#ancient #collective #culture #inner #maps

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. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#actual experience #before #biological #consequences #death

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

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. ↗

— Heinz Guderian

#only #people #situations

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

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#between #existence #important #incarnate #intermediate

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#activity #biological #challenges #conscious #death