Spiritually Transformative Experiences Archives

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

Precious Time

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

Some evenings at our little dinner table for two, my late husband, Bob Lehmberg, a palliative care and hospice physician, would say, “I told the patient and family, they were into Precious Time.” The emphasis is on “Precious.” I can still hear his soft, fatigued voice saying it: Precious Time Precious Time Precious Time

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Spiritually Transformative Experiences care for dying, death, dying, end of life, hospice

BICS Awards $1.5 M Re: Survival of Consciousness

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Emma Bragdon

BICS, Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies BICS was founded in June 2020 by aerospace entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow (above) to support research into both the survival of human consciousness after physical death and, based on data from such studies, the nature of the afterlife. Essay Awards of 1.5 Million A purpose of the BICS essay awards is

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Life After Death, Spiritually Transformative Experiences BICS, essay awards, essay contest, Robert Bigelow, survival of consciousness

Spiritual Awakening: It’s NOT About Religion

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

The Meaning of Spiritual Awakening In its essence, spiritual awakening has nothing to do with religion, although it might be interpreted in religious terms by religious people. It also has nothing to do with astral travel, channeling or crystal healing. Awakening is a psychological phenomenon. It is a shift into a more intense and expansive

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritually Transformative Experiences awakening experiences, compassion, connection, empathy, love, religion, spiritual awakening, spiritual emergence

Spiritual Awakenings International Launches

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

Yvonne Kason, MD., President of SAI Yvonne is the author of Touched by the Light and other books about Near Death Experience and Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs)*. She is now retired as a medical doctor/psychotherapist but continues to speak publically and be supportive of spiritual awakening. June 15 she and her team launched a non-profit

Posted in Spiritual Emergence, Spiritually Transformative Experiences spiritual emergence, spiritually transformative experiences, spriitual awakenings international. yvonne kason, STEs, touched by the light

The Shamanic View of Mental Health: A Holistic Approach

Posted on February 25, 2020 by admin 3 Comments

In November 2014, the peak psychology body in the UK, the British Psychological Association, released its new flagship report Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia. It was a watershed moment in the mainstream treatment of mental illness, containing statements such as this: Hearing voices or feeling paranoid are common experiences which can often

Posted in Mental Health, Mental Illness, Shamanism, Spiritual Emergence, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritually Transformative Experiences alternative mental health, crazywise, Eleanor Longden, holistic mental health, integrative mental health, John Weir Perry, Jonathan Davis, Joseph Campbell, mental health, mental illness, Phil Borges, psychosis, shamanism, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology, Stanlisav Grof

Spiritual but not religious? Jesus was too.

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

When someone asks you if you’re religious, do you find yourself answering that you’re “spiritual but not religious”? As humans, we have an innate desire to connect with the Divine, but too many of us have chafed under the rules, constrictions, and even distortions that can result when spirituality turns into dogma. When I [Phil

Posted in Spiritual Crisis, Spiritually Transformative Experiences religion, spiritual crisis, spiritual psychology, spirituality

Our Fear of Psychic Phenomena

Posted on October 6, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

Spiritist Medical Congress I just returned from a fantastic conference: the 2nd International Spiritist Medical Congress, “The Dawn of a New Era in Medicine”, October 1-2, 2016, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. The roster of speakers was world class–almost all of them were MDs and PhDs with superb presentations. The event hall was modern,

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Hallucinations, Meditation, Mental Health, Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Psychiatry, Psychosis, Spirituality, Spiritually Transformative Experiences anomalous experience, hallucinations, health, past-life experience, psi, psychosis

Mysticism and Psychosis

Posted on January 1, 2016 by admin 4 Comments

The following article is about mysticism, spiritual experiences, spiritual emergence and extreme states of consciousness, aka psychotic process. It was originally published in Seeds of Unfolding, Vol. VI, No. 4, Fall 1989. It is one of a number of papers written by Dr. Tomás Agosin, a psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College

Posted in Mental Health, Mysticism, Psychiatry, Psychosis, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritually Transformative Experiences mystic, mysticism, psychosis, psychotic, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency

Human Flourishing

Posted on December 18, 2014 by admin

After 21 years of private practice, Dr. Elliot Dacher, a family practice MD, began an in-depth study of the principles and practices of consciousness and health. He pursued his study researching the subtle aspects of integrative medicine for many years, even traveling to Asia to explore their wisdom traditions. Dr. Dacher now teaches the principles

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anxiety, Depression, Health, Integrative Mental Health, Meditation, Mental Health, Spirituality, Spiritually Transformative Experiences meditation, mental health, mental illness, spirituality