Stan Grof

Stan Grof’s Impact on My Life: A Personal Review

In 1980 the Spiritual Emergency Network, SEN, was created by Stan Grof (above) and his wife, Christina Grof. Both my parents had died in 1971 and 1972 of situations related to spiritual emergency in which
psychedelics

UC Berkeley’s New Center for Psychedelic Science and Education

  Fifty years after political and cultural winds slammed shut the doors on psychedelic research, UC Berkeley is making up for lost time by launching the campus’s first center for psychedelic science and public education.
cope

Yale U. Research: COPE

The COPE Project at Yale U. People from all over the world hear, see, and sense things that might not be there (such as hearing voices without someone physically speaking to them.) Not only is
Julie Holland

Julie Holland: Author, “Good Chemistry”

Dr. Julie Holland will discuss her new book, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics, which explores connection — why we need it, how we’ve lost it, and how we might find it again
STE

What is a Spiritually-Transformative Experience (STE)?

  A spiritually-transformative experience (STE) is so powerful it may change your sense of who you are and what your true purpose on earth is about. It may also motivate you to transform your relationships
Healing Touch and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

Healing Touch and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

There are about 50 Spiritist psychiatric hospitals in Brazil, utilizing an integrative approach to recovery, stressing the spiritual alongside physical and emotional therapies that address the true causes of imbalance. Energy “passes”, similar to healing

Watch New Film Aug 12: Medicating Normal

You’re invited to join us for an online community screening of Medicating Normal, a 76-minute documentary film exploring through stories our current mental health care system’s over-reliance on psychiatric drugs. An interactive community discussion will follow immediately
STE

Resources for Spiritual Emergency: Reboot Your Life in the Pandemic

Resources for Spiritual Emergency: Reboot Your Life in the Pandemic   Spiritual Emergency can be seen as a crisis in connection–without resources to re-establish connection. Experiencers (we) feel less connection to “all that is”, aka
awe

AWE in Nature Heals Us

  I want to share excerpts from two articles recently published by the Sierra Club, “The Science of Awe” by Jake Abrahamson and “Outdoors for All” by Richard Louv. These essays explore this extraordinary power of