A Quote by Stanislav Grof

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

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Stanislav Grof
Czechoslovakian - Psychologist
Born: July 1, 1931

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Robert Payne

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Rick Doblin

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Kelli O'Hara

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D. M. Turner

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Paul Virilio

When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against Indian culture. They are also saying, you Westernized, elite, English-speaking people are having too much of a good time. It's a very interesting phenomenon.

Arundhati Roy

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Nicholas Sparks

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Ricky Hatton

VR is a very intense visual experience and having the most powerful PC is the only way to deliver certain experiences.

Mark Zuckerberg

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Stanislav Grof

My experiences growing up - my father lived in New York, so I was going out there in the summers and meeting really interesting people and people having what seemed to me to be extraordinary experiences and really taking advantage of these wonderful opportunities. And so I will go - I would go to the big city and watch these people performing onstage and doing television and films. And then I would go back to Hayward, and it just suddenly felt that much smaller and sort of limiting because I had this hyper awareness of how much larger the world was.

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Timothy Morton

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Michelle Gielan

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