Stanislav Grof

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

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.

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

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

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