Famous quotes by Psychologists

"The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

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

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

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

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: they can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

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

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

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