Quotes by Stanislav Grof

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.

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

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

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.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

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.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

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.

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.