Stanislav Grof Quotes

born 1931 Czech Republic

Stanislav Grof (born July 1, 1931, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of altered states of consciousness for purposes of healing, growth, and insight.

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LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

LSD psychotherapy (1980)

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness

The Cosmic Game - Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (1997)

It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity

The Cosmic Game - Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (1997)

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.

LSD psychotherapy (1980)

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