David Michael Smith

“The transpersonal experiences revealing the Earth as an intelligent, conscious entity are corroborated by scientific evidence. Gregory Bateson, who created a brilliant synthesis of cybernetics, information and systems theory, the theory of evolution, anthropology, and psychology came to the conclusion that it was logically inevitable to assume that mental processes occurred at all levels in any system or natural phenomenon of sufficient complexity. He believed that mental processes are present in cells, organs, tissues, organisms, animal and human groups, eco-systems, and even the earth and universe as a whole.”
― Stanislav Grof, The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives

“In mapping out the transpersonal realm, I found it useful to think in terms of the following three experiential regions: (1) an expansion or extension of consciousness within the everyday concept of time and space; (2) an expansion or extension of consciousness beyond the everyday concept of time and space; and (3) "psychoid" experiences.”
― Stanislav Grof, The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives

“All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.”
― Nagarjuna

“Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon "thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air." Jung concluded that Philemon taught him "psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche." This helped Jung to understand that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend.”
― Stanislav Grof, The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives