Stanislav Grof
  • There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

  • The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

  • Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

  • Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

  • 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.