Stanislav Grof Quotes on Death & Dying (21 Quotes)

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

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

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.

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.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

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

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.

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

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

There is a similarity between the LSD effects and the experiences associated with the process of dying.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his death.

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.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

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.

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

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

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.