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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

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

Helane Wahbeh-Research at IONS

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

Helane Wahbeh: Interview with Emma Bragdon Helane Wahbeh, ND, MCR, is Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, IONS. In this 13 minute video she tells about her early home life with family and then brings us up to date with research into mediumship and channeling at IONS. IONS

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Mediums channeling, Helane Wahbeh, IONS, mediums, mediumship, metaphysics, research

NEWS: On Voice Hearing

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

There are communities in which hearing voices frequently is common and expected, and in which participants are not expected to have a need for care. This paper compares the ideas and practices of these communities. Voice Hearing in Community We observe that these communities utilize cultural models to identify and to explain voice-like events—and that

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Psychosis hearing voices, mediumship, mental health, mental illness, psychosis, voice hearing

Proving Life After Death

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Emma Bragdon

Proving Life After Death and Spirit Communications Proving Life after Death is a formidable task. Michael Tymn writes about his process proving it for himself. This is an excerpt of one of his blogs. Until George Pellew died and began communicating through the mediumship of Leonora Piper in 1892, leading researchers preferred to think of

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Life After Death Charles Richet, death, Leonora Piper, life after death, materialized spirits, mediumship, Michael Tymn, paranormal, spirit communication, White Crow Books

What is the Difference Between Spiritism and Spiritualism?

Posted on September 21, 2021 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

[2010 film Depicts the Spirit World] Spiritualism and Spiritism: A Comparison Similarities Both Spiritism and Spiritualism originated in the 19th century. Each believes that the spirit world of disembodied beings exists and spirits can interact with human beings. The impact may be positive or negative, informative or deceptive. Both Spiritism and Spiritualism agree that human

Posted in Spiritualism, Spirituality ARE, astral city, Cayce, Chico Xavier, mediumship, psychics, Spiritism, Spiritist Community Centers, Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals, spiritual healing, spiritualism, spirituality

Dead Man Talking: Brazil’s Spiritists Redefine Religion

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

Integrative Mental Health University, IMHU.org, has a special interest in Spiritist Therapies. Check out the course we offer on this topic with 7 professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, and mediums who lead Spiritist Centers in the USA). Click HERE to find out more. We also offer a 30 minute documentary, Spiritism: Bridging Spirituality and Health. which takes

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mediums, Spiritism allan kardec, channeled writing, Chico Xavier, integrative mental health, kardec, mediums, mediumship, nosso lar, psicografia, psychography, Spiritism, spiritist, spiritual healing

What is the Difference Between Spiritism and Spiritualism?

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

It’s in the Original Mission Both Spiritism and Spiritualism believe that the spirit world exists and spirits have an impact on human beings. The impact may be positive or negative, informative or deceptive. Both Spiritism and Spiritualism agree that we continue to live on after physical death in “Spirit World”. Both believe in psychic, or

Posted in Life After Death, Mental Health, Paranormal, Psychic Experiences, Spiritism, Spiritualism, Uncategorized mediumship, psychics, Spiritism, Spiritist Community Centers, Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals, spiritual healing, spiritualism, spirituality

The Reality of ESP

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities Yes, psychic abilities, i.e. using extra-sensory perception (ESP), can gather useful information…and this extraordinary, or paranormal ability is available to everyone. This opens up a whole realm of human potential to consider. Russell Targ is a physicist who has worked for decades with other physicists

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Paranormal ESP, extrasensory perception, mediumship, paranormal, psychic, remote viewing, russel targ