Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 01. Juli 1931 |
Geburtsort | Prague |
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Beschreibung | Stanislav "Stan" Grof ist ein in Tschechien geborener Psychiater, der seit den 1960er Jahren in den Vereinigten Staaten lebt. Grof ist einer der wichtigsten Entwickler der transpersonalen Psychologie und der Erforschung der Nutzung nicht-alltäglicher Bewusstseinszustände zum Zwecke der Erforschung, Heilung und des Wachstums sowie der Erlangung von Einsichten in die menschliche Psyche. Grof erhielt am 5. Oktober 2007 in Prag den VISION 97-Preis der Stiftung von Dagmar und Václav Havel. Andererseits wurde Grof dafür kritisiert, dass er in der Tschechischen Republik eine unwissenschaftliche Psychologie fördere. Er ist die einzige Person, die in diesem Land zweimal den mit einem Antipreis versehenen Erratic Boulder Award erhalten hat. |
I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
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.
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
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.
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.
