Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof
Stanislav "Stan" Grofis a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche. Grof received the VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Václav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 July 1931
ease time transition
Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his death.
space causality fields
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
spiritual teacher messages
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.
lifetime mystical existence
It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.
space ego body
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.
spiritual sacred tools
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
training dying patient
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
psychosis brain toxic
LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.
spiritual two dying
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.
unique emotional personality
These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This unique property of psychedelics makes it possible to study psychological undercurrents that govern our experiences and behaviors to a depth that cannot be matched by any other methods and tools available in modern mainstream science. In emotional and psychosomatic disorders, for positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
spiritual buddhism unique
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
spiritual believe healing
I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development.
spiritual practice differences
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
individual existence shows
The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.