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
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  1. He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

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

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

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

  5. 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.

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