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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

Working Group Soteria

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Working Group Soteria Authors: Daniel Nischk and Ludi Van Bouwel of ISPS [To learn more about Soteria, a very successful psycho-social approach to treating extreme states, go a previous blog which introduces the concept as well as an active Soteria House in Vermont, USA. Click HERE to learn more. A 7 minute vid of the

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Residential Care Mosher, neuroleptics, psycho-social care, psychosis, research, residential treatment, schizophrenia, soteria

Mediumship: Research and Latest Discoveries

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness: Mediumship, Meditation & Citizen Science Using Muse EEG with Helané Wahbeh (above photo), Arnaud Delorme, and Chris Aimone Friday, May 2, 2025 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT) Register Now (Free) Please register even if you can’t attend live and you’ll receive a link to the recording. What happens in

Posted in Mediums, Spiritual Emergence brain, citizen science, consciousness, EEG, heartwave, IONS, meditation, mediumship, mind, MUSE, neuroscience, research

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

Microdosing & Psychedelic Science Update

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Jim Fadiman, PhD. Microdosing The first comprehensive book on microdosing, using new research and extensive reports from individuals to describe the possibilities of the practice. A good night’s sleep is a sacred healing ritual you deserve to savor every single night… So why do too many of us find ourselves fighting for it? More than

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Psychedelics IMHU, jim fadiman, microdosing, poor sleep, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, psychedelics

Spiritual Experiences in Increasing Numbers

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Over the last 40+ years I have wondered, “What percentage of people are experiencing personally transformative spiritual experiences?” Since these experiences have previously been seen as possible hallucinations or delusions indicative of psychosis, relatively few people have felt comfortable reporting about them to surveys–even friends and family–for fear of being perceived as mentally ill. Currently,

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Spiritual Emergence emergent phenomena, EPRC, Pew Research, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual experiences

Soteria: An Alternative to Hospitalization

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Soteria House Soteria House is a Therapeutic Community Residence for the prevention of hospitalization for individuals experiencing a distressing extreme state, commonly referred to as psychosis. We believe that psychosis can be a temporary experience that one works through rather than a chronic mental illness that needs to be managed.We practice the approach of

Posted in Residential Care, Spiritual Emergency alternatives, extreme states, hospitalization, Peer Support, psychosis, soteria, Vermont

Supporting Spiritual Crisis in Veterans

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

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 experience something which conflicts with their morals or ethics. For example, someone in the infantry is ordered to kill a

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency DSM, Harvard, human flourishing, moral distress, moral injury, moral problem, suicide, veterans

Imagine a NEW Earth

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Pam Gregory (above) has a dedicated following of thousands and, in this short 15 min vid, she offers a way for each one of us to connect and provide our energies in charting a course to a “New Earth”. Are you asking yourself “What can I do to usher in an improvement to the way

Posted in Meditation, Spiritual Emergence Eckhart Tolle, meditation, new earth, pam gregory, spiritual emergence

Judy Tsafrir, MD-Integrative Psychiatrist

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Judy Tsafrir, MD. This 17 min video offers a glimpse into who she is and some of the components she brings to her work. Outside of her conventional training she has become knowledgeable and skilled with nutrition, micronutrients, spirituality, archetypal psychology and astrology. She is on the faculty

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds archetypal psychology, integrative psychiatrist, integrative psychiatry, Judy Tsafrir, psychiatry, sacred psychiatry, spiritual psychiatry

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