Time & Perspective Quote by Stanislav Grof

Grof is making a deliberately provocative pivot: the climate-and-collapse conversation cannot stay in the familiar lanes of policy, tech, and markets, because those lanes were paved by the same inner logic that produced the wreck. When he says the crisis was "created" by a particular "consciousness", he is smuggling in a diagnosis as much as a remedy: extractive systems are downstream of an extractive psyche. The target isn't just emissions; it's the worldview that treats the planet as dead matter and the self as a sealed, competing unit.

The phrase "tools" matters. Grof is not offering a sermon or a vague appeal to "awareness"; he's signaling method and intervention. Coming from a psychologist associated with transpersonal psychology and altered states research, "tools" quietly points to practices that shift perception at the root level: therapy, contemplative disciplines, and historically for him, psychedelic-assisted work. That subtext is the political charge here. He's arguing that interior transformation belongs in the portfolio of civilization-saving strategies, even if it makes technocrats and skeptics squirm.

"Planetary future" broadens the moral frame beyond national interest and short-term fixes. It also absolves no one: if the crisis is consciousness-made, then consciousness-change is collective work, not just individual self-optimization. The sentence is constructed like a hinge between psychology and geopolitics, insisting that the next era's most consequential technology may be the one that changes how we experience ourselves in relation to everything else.