She learns to journey up up up through the darkness, meeting her ghostly teachers, who tell her to reconnect with the energies of the earth but she has a second crisis, after successfully giving birth to two children, and sees her toddlers demonstrate a reluctance to go through tunnel-shaped passageways…. For her, this is a clear sign of a spiritual crisis. In Paris, she finds love but has a difficult time getting pregnant. Even after a seemingly successful career, she still has an overwhelming sense of displacement. And begins to slowly and quietly tell the story of her own spiritual crisis, eventually leading to the work of Stanislav Grof. The film opens with a cuddly two-shot of the filmmaker, Susan Hess, and the Czech psychiatrist, Stanislav Grof, the man Albert Hofmann called “the godfather of LSD.” Susan explains in voice-over how she found it impossible to tell the story of Stanislav Grof without inserting herself into the narrative. Little did I realize the film would address key questions I had concerning consciousness and spirit. I accepted because film and psychedelics are two areas of interest. There have been some real changes in my consciousness but I don’t have the words to express those changes in a proper context.īut sometimes the universe speaks to you: I was asked to write a review of The Way of the Psychonaut: Stanislav Grof’s Journey of Consciousness. And, my “spirituality,” since 2004, includes a regular practice of seated meditation which has led to some pretty spooky episodes in the ether. Over the course of my life, I’ve been diagnosed with everything from manic-depression and delusional paranoia to PTSD. I am at that age where supplemental Medicare insurance plans pile on my floor beneath the mail transom to an annoying degree, but I have a mental clarity I’ve not known in years.
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