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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. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#concepts #consciousness #current #matter #nature

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

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#central #certainty #concerned #culture #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

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#because #down #meet #nice #people

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

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

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 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

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs? ↗

— Dave Grohl

#i #i love #like #love #music