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The Unconscious Has Bad Manners: Stanislav Grof and the Psychedelic Psyche
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- The Observing I Podcast
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- Jun 2, 2026
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Summary
In this episode of The Observing I , we enter the work of Stanislav Grof, the Czech-born psychiatrist whose psychedelic research led him to a stranger view of the unconscious: one shaped not only by childhood and memory, but by birth, death, the body, symbols, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. We explore what Grof’s maps of the psyche still offer, where they overreach, and why powerful experiences can feel true even when their meaning remains uncertain. Much love, David x