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Reasons to Value Spiritual Experiences in Mental Health

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

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. Dr. M-A is a prolific researcher, who has also written many published articles and books on the subject of spirituality,

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence 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

Spiritist Healing: A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

[still from the film “Astral City: My Spiritual Home” Spiritist Healing: A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare Spiritist Healing: In Context Why should we consider Spiritist healing now? There is currently an epidemic of mental health disorders in the U.S. At least one in five Americans is taking one or more prescribed psychiatric medications, despite their

Posted in Spiritism, Spiritual Emergence Brazil, Mental healthcare, psychiatric hospital, psychotherapy, Spiritism, spiritist healing, spiritual healing, spiritual psychiatry

Review: New John of God Film

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

John of God: The Crimes of a Spiritual Healer is a series of 4 episodes, each 50 minutes, released on Netflix in mid-July, 2021. It documents the life story, the healing work that put John Teixera de Faria in the limelight internationally, and the shadows lurking behind that light. The original film, made in

Posted in John of God, Spiritual Healing Abadiania, Brazil, crimes of a spiritual healer, joao teixera de faria, John, john of god, spiritual healer

Spiritist Healing: A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Emma Bragdon

Spiritist Healing: In Context Why should we consider Spiritist Healing now? There is currently an epidemic of mental health disorders in the U.S. At least one in five Americans is taking one or more prescribed psychiatric medications, despite their many side effects. However, optimizing wellbeing without psych meds is possible, something many Brazilians have been

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Healing Brazil, Mental healthcare, psychiatric hospital, psychotherapy, Spiritism, spiritist healing, spiritual healing, spiritual psychiatry

Spiritist Healing: A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare

Posted on August 14, 2017 by admin

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Healing Brazil, Mental healthcare, psychiatric hospital, psychotherapy, Spiritism, spiritist healing, spiritual healing, spiritual psychiatry