Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Only as an individual can man become a philosopher"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

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

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

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

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

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

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

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

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

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

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

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

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"I have to say, I regretted giving up animated movies"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

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