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Stanislav Grof

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

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Donna Grant

"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

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Donna Grant

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."

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Donna Grant

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

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Donna Grant

"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

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Donna Grant

"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."

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Donna Grant

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

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Donna Grant

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

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Donna Grant

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

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Donna Grant

"I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."

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Donna Grant

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

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

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Stanislav Grof
"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."

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Stanislav Grof
"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."

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

Literature

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

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

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

Death

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Stanislav Grof
"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."

Death

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Stanislav Grof
"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."

Science

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

Death

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