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.
became interested opening powerful
I volunteered for an LSD session. It was such a powerful opening of my own unconscious that I became more interested in psychedelics than in psychoanalysis.
associated effects process similarity
There is a similarity between the LSD effects and the experiences associated with the process of dying.
telescopes psychedelic lsd
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.
literature psychedelic natural
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
government long research
As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.
important way states
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
interesting understanding drug
[B]y banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.
technology use substance
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.
powerful unique personality
LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.
unbiased investigation scientism
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
hero walt great-hero
Walt Disney was my great hero.
vision transition ease
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
reality important dimensions
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.