Tag: Stanislav Grof

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.

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.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

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

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

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.