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

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

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 they did not receive adequate support. I felt very excited by what the Grofs were doing. I knew the need

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence breathwork, Emma Bragdon, Grof Legacy Training, holotropic breathwork, inner journey, inner journeys, psychedelics, Psychonaut, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergence coach, spiritual emergency, stan grof, stanislav grof, transpersonal

UC Berkeley’s New Center for Psychedelic Science and Education

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

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. With $1.25 million in seed funding from an anonymous donor, the new UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Psychedelics Johns Hopkins, Michael Pollan, psychedelic, psychedelic research, psychedlic-assisted psychotherapy, UC Berkeley

Yale U. Research: COPE

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

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 this a common experience, but most people who have these experiences don’t need any form of psychiatric care. The psychiatrist

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency Al Powers, cope, diagnosis, hearing voices, medium, psychic, psychici phenomena, spiritual emergency, Yale U

Julie Holland: Author, “Good Chemistry”

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

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 as well as how psychedelics could be used in psychiatry to make treatments more efficient and effective. Sponsored by Young

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, MDMA Ayahuasca, connection, good chemistry, ibogaine, julie holland, mdma, psychiatrist, psychopharmacology, PTSD

What is a Spiritually-Transformative Experience (STE)?

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

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 as well as your work—and engage in new ways of living. STE and NDE A Near Death Experience (NDE) is

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence eben alexander, Emma Bragdon, NDE, near death experience, robert bates, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritually transformative experiences, spritiual crisis, STE

Healing Touch and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

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 touch, are central to the healing and health maintenance. This article briefly describes the Spiritist philosophy, its successes, as well

Posted in Healing Touch, Integrative Mental Health allan kardec, Brazilian Spiritism, energy passes, healing touch, integrative medicine, integrative mental health, Spiritism, Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals, spiritist psychiatry

Withdrawal Info & Invitation to a Film Screening

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

See the blog to get your invitation to view “Medicating Normal” and to read about components of successful withdrawal from psychiatric medications written by Kelly Brogan, MD, psychiatrist. Case Report: Successful Discontinuation of Psychotropic Drugs By Kelly Brogan, MD Originally published at https://kellybroganmd.com/case-report-successful-discontinuation-of-psychotropic-drugs/ SUMMARY A 38-year old woman with a history of generalized anxiety disorder, major

Posted in Drugs, Integrative Mental Health Kelly Brogan, medicating normal, withdrawal

Watch New Film Aug 12: Medicating Normal

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

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 after the film. You can view the trailer at medicatingnormal.com. This is an exceptional, professionally produced film. The Panel Features:

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Illness alternative mental health, Emma Bragdon, holistic mental health, IMHU, integrative mental health, lynn Cunningham, medicating normal, medication withdrawal, pam shervanick

Resources for Spiritual Emergency: Reboot Your Life in the Pandemic

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

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 God, the Universe. Our dreams are chaotic and leave us disturbed on waking. We have fears we didn’t used to

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency IMHU, mental health, pandemic, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency

AWE in Nature Heals Us

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

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 awe/enchantment in Nature to heal us, physically, psychologically, and spiritually: “Scientifically speaking, the state of awe, an emotion that, psychologists

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence awe, creativity, enchantment, environmental education, human connection, learning, nature, Robert Tindall, Sierra Club, social bonding, Susana Bustos

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