#is

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#been #cases #death #did #dying

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

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

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

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

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#being #entire #even #ever #existence

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

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#carefully #death #deserved #dimensions #experienced

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. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#body #consciousness #death #extend #extremely

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. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#appear #atoms #beings #biological #cells