Anomalous Experience Archives

Mediumship: Research and Latest Discoveries

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness: Mediumship, Meditation & Citizen Science Using Muse EEG with Helané Wahbeh (above photo), Arnaud Delorme, and Chris Aimone Friday, May 2, 2025 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT) Register Now (Free) Please register even if you can’t attend live and you’ll receive a link to the recording. What happens in

Posted in Mediums, Spiritual Emergence brain, citizen science, consciousness, EEG, heartwave, IONS, meditation, mediumship, mind, MUSE, neuroscience, research

APA Recognizes Spirituality

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Spiritual Experiences Gain Mainstream Recognition with Prestigious Psychiatry Award … Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, has been awarded the 2025 Oskar Pfister Award by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). This prestigious award recognizes his exceptional contributions to the scientific study of spiritual experiences and their profound implications for our understanding of consciousness and the survival of consciousness

Posted in Spirit, Spiritual Emergence, Uncategorized Alexander Moreira Almeida, american psychiatric association, APA, consciousness, Oskar Pfister, Spiritism and Mental Health, spirituality, survival of consciousness

Spiritual Experiences in Increasing Numbers

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Over the last 40+ years I have wondered, “What percentage of people are experiencing personally transformative spiritual experiences?” Since these experiences have previously been seen as possible hallucinations or delusions indicative of psychosis, relatively few people have felt comfortable reporting about them to surveys–even friends and family–for fear of being perceived as mentally ill. Currently,

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Spiritual Emergence emergent phenomena, EPRC, Pew Research, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual experiences

Helane Wahbeh-Research at IONS

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

Helane Wahbeh: Interview with Emma Bragdon Helane Wahbeh, ND, MCR, is Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, IONS. In this 13 minute video she tells about her early home life with family and then brings us up to date with research into mediumship and channeling at IONS. IONS

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Mediums channeling, Helane Wahbeh, IONS, mediums, mediumship, metaphysics, research

Evren Sit: Story Teller Extraordinaire

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Evren Sit: Story Teller Extraordinaire! Above is an interview Emma Bragdon did with Nuran Evren Sit–the screenwriter of Another SELF, now at Netflix. Evren is from Turkey, and like her own ancestors, is acutely aware of the impact our ancestors have on our life. Some of the patterns they had in life are passed down

Posted in Spiritual Emergence, Spiritually Transformative Experiences another self, Bert Hellinger, Constellation Therapy, Evren Sit, Hellinger, Nuran Evren Sit

Increasing Awareness of Kundalini

Posted on June 18, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

Kundalini-Normalized Brent Spirit (above) is the Founder of KundaliniAwareness.org. This not-for-profit org offers a lot of free, grounded information, including a podcast about Kundalini. Brent understands that some people start their journey of awakening with an experience of Kundalini, and some people become very distressed with the phenomena associated with Kundalini. In fact, it

Posted in Kundalini, Spiritual Emergence Brent Spirit, consciousness, Emma Bragdon, kriya, kriyas, kundalini, Self-realization

Kylea Taylor Speaks About InnerEthics

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

9 minute video with Kylea Taylor Kylea Taylor: An Introduction In the above video Kylea Taylor, LMFT, speaks about how she came to create her course, InnerEthics® and what a student can learn from it. IMHU is honored to host this course as we feel it is essential for all those holding space for

Posted in Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Spiritual Emergence consciousness, ethics, extraordinary states, extreme states, inner ethics, InnerEthics, Kylea Taylor, non-ordinary states, spiritual emergence, stan grof

Perspectives on Death and Loss

Posted on April 3, 2024 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

Perspectives on Death and Loss Excerpts from the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda Though the ordinary man looks upon death with dread and sadness, those who have gone before know it as a wondrous experience of peace and freedom. Death Experience At death, you forget all the limitations of the physical body and realize how

Posted in Spirit, Spiritual Emergency after death communication, death, fear of death, life after death, loss, spirit, Yogananda

Anoop Kumar, MD, on His Out of Body Experience

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

Dr. Anoop Kumar on Out of Body Experience Highly Recommended: an interview with an Indian medical doctor who speaks about his own Out of Body Experience, Astral Projection, Out of Body and Astral Travel Meditation. Dr Anoop Kumar practices emergency medicine in Washington, DC. Preetika Rao, a podcaster, is the interviewer. The interview

Posted in Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Spiritual Emergence

Indigenous American Psychology: NEW

Posted on August 10, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

A Cherokee Man Indigenous culture has been translated into “A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Care of the Earth” by an award-winning, Amer-Indian psychologist, Arthur W. Blume, PhD. The book was published by Praeger in 2020. Dr. Blume’s conceptualization of this New Psychology is brilliant and much needed at this time. Why?

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spirit amer-indian, culture, indians, indigenous, mental health, mental illness, natives, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy