"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

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"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain."

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