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Happiness: What Causes It?

Happiness Research: One Big Finding Decades of wellness studies have identified a formula for happiness   What is the central activity that promotes happiness?  A century of research gives us the answer: Connection to others.
  • Posted on June 4, 2025
  • Emma Bragdon
  • happiness, Harvard, psychotherapy, research, Waldinger
04 Jun 2025
in Mental Health, Relationship
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happiness, Harvard, psychotherapy, research, Waldinger

Reasons to Value Spiritual Experiences in Mental Health

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZL-axoqKU Expert Summary: How Spiritual Experiences Fit into Mental Health May 17, 2025.  Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, PhD, gives his hourlong acceptance speech for the Oskar Pfister Award at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Conference.
  • Posted on May 27, 2025
  • Emma Bragdon
  • Alexander Moreira Almeida, APA, brain, Brazil, consciousness, life after death, mediumship, mental health, NDE, near death experience, Oskar Pfister Aware, psychosis, reincarnation, spiritual emergency, spiritual experience
27 May 2025
in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence
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Alexander Moreira Almeida, APA, brain, Brazil, consciousness, life after death, mediumship, mental health, NDE, near death experience, Oskar Pfister Aware, psychosis, reincarnation, spiritual emergency, spiritual experience

Supporting Spiritual Crisis in Veterans

Monday, March 17, 2025 9am to 5pm ET (New York City Time) FREE–Attend live or virtually Info/Registration:  https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/veteran_wellbeing_resilience Veterans, active service men and women, and first responders  are often faced with moral distress when they
  • Posted on March 4, 2025
  • Emma Bragdon
  • DSM, Harvard, human flourishing, moral distress, moral injury, moral problem, suicide, veterans
04 Mar 2025
in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency
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DSM, Harvard, human flourishing, moral distress, moral injury, moral problem, suicide, veterans

Choosing Evolution

  Choosing Evolution Paul Levy is an author, creator, long-term meditator, and consultant.  About 40 years ago he underwent a dramatic spiritual crisis, during which he was taken to be mentally ill and hospitalized.  He
  • Posted on December 10, 2024
  • Emma Bragdon
  • awakening, compassion, creativity, Emma Bragdon, evolution, meditation, Paul Levy, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergency
10 Dec 2024
in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency
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awakening, compassion, creativity, Emma Bragdon, evolution, meditation, Paul Levy, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergency

Support for Spiritual Crisis-A 3-Hour Workshop

This short video describes who can benefit from the workshop. Saturday, November 30, 2024   11am-2pm ET, 8-11am PT in USA 4-7pm in UK, 5-8pm in EU   Support for Spiritual Crisis- 3-Hour Workshop  
  • Posted on November 25, 2024
  • Emma Bragdon
25 Nov 2024
in Mental Health, Spiritual Crisis
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Interview with Phil Borges

  Phil Borges and Emma Bragdon in Conversation On October 28, 2024, I interviewed Phil Borges.  He is the co-producer of Crazywise, a documentary film depicting Spiritual Emergency through the real life stories of two
  • Posted on October 29, 2024
  • Emma Bragdon
  • Emma Bragdon, Phil Borges, psychosis, shamanism, Shamans, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, stan grof
29 Oct 2024
in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency
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Emma Bragdon, Phil Borges, psychosis, shamanism, Shamans, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, stan grof
Francis Lu

Francis Lu, Psychiatrist: Adding Spirit to Psychiatry

  Francis Lu, Psychiatrist: On Recognizing Spiritual Issues in Psychiatry An essay Francis Lu wrote with two scolleagues to the APA’s editorial board for the DSM-IV  was instrumental in creating the first category in the
  • Posted on October 10, 2024
  • Emma Bragdon
  • APA, cultural psychiatry, DSM, Emma Bragdon, Francis Lu, religious problem, Spiritual problem
10 Oct 2024
in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence
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APA, cultural psychiatry, DSM, Emma Bragdon, Francis Lu, religious problem, Spiritual problem
Corruption

Let’s End Public Health Agency Corruption

Mary Holland Corruption in Public Health Agencies Robert Redfield, MD, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021,  has recently called for the end of public health agency corruption and
  • Posted on October 3, 2024
  • Emma Bragdon
  • big pharma, CDC, corruption, Mary Holland, newsweek, pesticides, public health, robert redfield
03 Oct 2024
in Mental Health
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big pharma, CDC, corruption, Mary Holland, newsweek, pesticides, public health, robert redfield

Another SELF

  AnotherSelf AnotherSelf is a series of one hour shorts in 8 Episodes/ 2 seasons which has made a big hit internationally.  It was just released in late July, 2024 in the USA via Netflix. 
  • Posted on September 5, 2024
  • Emma Bragdon
  • another self, anotherself, constellation, expand consciousness, netflix
05 Sep 2024
in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence
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another self, anotherself, constellation, expand consciousness, netflix

Emergence Phenomena: Defined and Discussed

Emergence Phenomena: Opening the Dialogue The experiences individuals have as a result of “spiritual emergence” are many and simple categories often miss the subtle differences that are important to acknowledge.  Especially if someone is a
  • Posted on July 18, 2024
  • Emma Bragdon
  • anomalous experiences, Daniel Ingram, emergence, emergency, emergent phenomena, Frontiers in Psychology, meditation, non-ordinary, Oliver Sandilands, phenomenology, psychedelics, stan grof
18 Jul 2024
in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence, Uncategorized
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anomalous experiences, Daniel Ingram, emergence, emergency, emergent phenomena, Frontiers in Psychology, meditation, non-ordinary, Oliver Sandilands, phenomenology, psychedelics, stan grof

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