Stanislav Grof

“The collective unconscious contains the entire psychic heritage of mankind.”

“The psyche is not confined to the skin-encapsulated ego.”

“Consciousness does not just passively reflect the material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.”

“The healer you are looking for is you.”

“In the transpersonal domains, we are breaking the rules of the Newtonian-Cartesian universe.”

“It became clear that the classical Freudian model was an inadequate and superficial account of the human psyche.”

“Spiritual emergency is a crisis of transformation.”

“We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded in our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, and linear causality.”

“The new paradigm sees consciousness as an intrinsic property of the cosmos.”

“Human beings are not closed systems; they are open to the cosmos.”

“The most important insight of my professional career is that a large subgroup of psychiatric and medical disorders are of a psychospiritual nature.”

“LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If a person is treated with LSD, he sees himself as he really is.”

“Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for astronomy.”

“The experience of death is the ultimate and most effective catalyst of consciousness change.”

“Holotropic breathing is a powerful method of self-exploration and therapy.”