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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

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

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

The Effects of Meditation on Mental Health

Posted on December 22, 2013 by admin

When an individual meditates, he/she comes into more contact with the Soul and Spirit. The delusion that one is a separate self, an ego, begins to dissolve. As more connection is forged with the Soul through meditation, the person feels increasingly more calm and at peace. This is one reason that meditation is so positive

Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Meditation, Mental Health, Self-Realization, Soul, Spirit meditation, mental health, spiritual

What is Soul?

Posted on November 30, 2013 by admin

What is soul? In its essence, the Soul in each person is a reflection of the immortal Spirit. Just as a man does not die when his house crumbles away, the Soul does not die when the body dies. The Soul simply leaves the body where it was encased and moves on. The s essence never

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Who Talks to the Departed? One Out of 3 of Us!

Posted on November 20, 2013 by admin

(This is based on a Gallup survey from 2005. Note how many young people believe in spirits!) As we approach Halloween [2013], note that most American adults in the 21st Century say that they believe in life after death and in the devil; over one-third say that they believe in the spirits of the dead coming back;

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Life After Death, Psychic Experiences, Spirit

Reflections on Spiritual Healing #1

Posted on October 2, 2013 by admin

More and more people are turning to spiritual healing to find relief from their pain and suffering that conventional, biologically-based medicine can not provide. In his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, Paramahansa Yogananda, a self-realized master, explains that there are two main roots of all physical and mental diseases that are imperceptible to most people:

Posted in Karma, Mental Health, Spirit, Spiritual Healing, Yogananda healing, mental health, mental illness

What is Spirit?

Posted on September 11, 2013 by admin 1 Comment

The Bhagavad Gita (BG) is the book that Hindu spiritual masters consider the supreme source of scripture. It’s name means “Song of the Spirit”. It was written 2500 to 3000 years ago by enlightened masters. Many consider that Christ learned from the students of these same masters. Yogananda*, a modern-day fully enlightened man, wrote a

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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi-Abbot of SF Zen Center

Mental Heath, Wellness, and Spirit

Posted on August 30, 2013 by admin 1 Comment

Why am I so passionate about integrative mental health and how did I get to be an expert? It’s very personal, but it’s also about all of us, and the conditions of life today. It’s the reason I feel stable and deeply happy—and may be the reason you can reach that place as well. Shunryu

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Meditation, Mental Health, Spirit healing, meditation, mental health, soul, spirit, wellness