…enough to have done a survey, but it would make complete sense if they had. Everything they say would make sense. Well, Stan Grof, who was one of the pioneers of LSD research in the 1960s and 70s, collected more than 2500 accounts of LSD experiences…

…in a hell-like state. And actually, this is what happened when I took it myself the first time. I'd never heard of Stan Grof or his research, but I felt I was trapped in a kind of underground, underwater state, completely imprisoned. I thought I'd gone…

…into light and a place of joy and peace and beauty, exquisite beauty, revelation. It was a kind of near-death experience. Well, Stan Grof says that that is in the accounts he studied a very common and recurrent theme. Other people have had this kind of…

…Everything was blissful, joyful, beautiful, serene, unbelievably wonderful. And in his study of LSD experiences in the 1960s and 70s, Stan Grof, a Czech psychiatrist now in California, studied more than 2,500 people who'd taken LSD and found that many people…

…near-death type experiences with it that had been profoundly transformative in their lives. So I didn't know anything about Stan Grof at the time, but it certainly happened to me. The psychoactive compound DMT, dimethyltryptamine, is faster and more intense…

…there are a couple of ways of thinking about that. One is a kind of psychological way, which you probably know the theory of Stan Grof on this. You probably discussed it. I know Stan Grof very well. I know his work very well, yes. Well, you know that…

…One is a kind of psychological way, which you probably know the theory of Stan Grof on this. You probably discussed it. I know Stan Grof very well. I know his work very well, yes. Well, you know that he found a lot of people, when he was doing his…

…then when it came out in 1981, there was a lot of interest in it in Britain and in America, particularly California. And Stan Grof and the Transpersonal Association asked me to speak about it at a conference they were having in India in the beginning of…

…who take psychedelics and see astonishing visionary states, often describe things that could be regarded as pre-human. The psychologist Stan Grof, who's studied the effects of LSD on many, many people, has collected the stories they've told, and he's been…

…of psychedelics for a lot of people, where they have become a kind of rite of passage by default in our culture, as Stan Grof, who was one of the pioneering researchers in the 1960s, showed that many people who had taken LSD in the 1960s had had…

…taking psychedelic drugs. And some psychedelic drugs induce death and rebirth type experiences. In the 1960s, before LSD was banned, Stan Grof, the Czech and then American psychologist, studied about 2,000 people who'd taken LSD and found that many of them…

…then coming back again. and it's a transformative effect for most people who've done it. LSD often has this effect too. When Stan Grof, a Czech psychiatrist, was studying LSD in the 1960s in Prague and later in America before it became illegal, he studied…