Stan Grof

Stan Grof is mentioned elsewhere on the site. I wasn´t totally hooked on everything he wrote, but some interesting quotes on death and dying.

"Dying and death are the most universal and personally relevant experiences for every single individual

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual’s way of being in the world

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

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

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

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

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

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world.... LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior

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.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

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