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• 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.

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  Race, Collective Unconscious, Culture

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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.

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  Brain, Needs, Revision

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.230, SUNY Press

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• It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.

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  Space, Ego, Usual

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.230, SUNY Press

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Buddhism, Opportunity

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.229, SUNY Press

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• The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

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  Two, Fields, Consciousness

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• By 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.

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  Interesting, Drug, Understanding

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

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  Creative, Psychology, Energy

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• 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.

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  Death, Heart, Keys

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• There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

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  Spiritual, Practice, Differences

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

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  Positive, Healing, Personality

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

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  Death, Body, Consciousness

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• An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

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  Fear, Important, Spirituality

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air. Jung concluded that Philemon taught him psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. This helped Jung to understand that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend.

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  Animal, Reality, Air

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (1992). “The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives”, Harpercollins

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• 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.

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  Psychosis, Brain, Substance

  Stanislav Grof (2009). “When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities, Read How You Want Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Unique, Personality

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.

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  Book, Unique, Blood

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• Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

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  Children, Memories, People

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• The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

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  Moving, Journey, People

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• 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.

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  Issues, Personality, Survival

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• 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.

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  Animal, Thinking, Cells

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• If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

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  Body, Able, Consciousness

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.234, SUNY Press

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• Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

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  Tabula Rasa, Superficial, Born

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• The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

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  Play, Important, Connections

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

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  Impact, World, Belief

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• It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

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  Important, Way, States

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.224, SUNY Press

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