Stanislav Grof

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.

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

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

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

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.

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

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.

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.