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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.

Stanislav Grof

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

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.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

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

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

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 have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Stanislav Grof

Movies

Giving

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

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

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

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

Stanislav Grof

Dying

Training

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

Stanislav Grof

Death

Connection

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.