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voice hearing

NEWS: On Voice Hearing

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.
  • Posted on March 2, 2023
  • Emma Bragdon
  • hearing voices, mediumship, mental health, mental illness, psychosis, voice hearing
02 Mar 2023
in Integrative Mental Health, Psychosis
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shamanic

The Shamanic View of Mental Health: A Holistic Approach

In November 2014, the peak psychology body in the UK, the British Psychological Association, released its new flagship report Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia. It was a watershed moment in the mainstream treatment of mental illness, containing statements such as
  • Posted on February 25, 2020
  • Joshua Beil
  • alternative mental health, crazywise, Eleanor Longden, holistic mental health, integrative mental health, John Weir Perry, Jonathan Davis, Joseph Campbell, mental health, mental illness, Phil Borges, psychosis, shamanism, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology, Stanlisav Grof
25 Feb 2020
in Mental Health, Mental Illness, Shamanism, Spiritual Emergence, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritually Transformative Experiences
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alternative mental health, crazywise, Eleanor Longden, holistic mental health, integrative mental health, John Weir Perry, Jonathan Davis, Joseph Campbell, mental health, mental illness, Phil Borges, psychosis, shamanism, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology, Stanlisav Grof
collective spiritual emergency

When Mental Illness Masks A Collective Spiritual Emergency

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti Out of the Shadows: When Spiritual Emergency was a Mental Illness I recall driving with my parents past
  • Posted on February 10, 2020
  • Joshua Beil
  • alternative mental health, integrative mental health, psychosis, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology
10 Feb 2020
in Spiritual Emergency
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alternative mental health, integrative mental health, psychosis, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology

Is it Psychosis or a Spiritual Emergency?

A “spiritual emergency” is often confused with a psychotic episode.  People think, “It’s got to be one or the other!  Which one is it?”  They look for someone to do an assessment to answer the
  • Posted on July 12, 2019
  • Emma Bragdon
  • mental health, mental illness, psychosis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency
12 Jul 2019
in Spiritual Emergency
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mental health, mental illness, psychosis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency
understanding psychosis

Understanding Psychosis: Sign of Mental Illness or Spiritual Emergency?

There is a heated argument around understanding psychosis and psychotic episodes. The dictionary of psychiatry considers it an illness, like a symptom of a broken brain. Increasing numbers believe it does not exist as a
  • Posted on August 29, 2018
  • Emma Bragdon
  • anti-psychotics, psychosis, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergence coach, spiritual emergency
29 Aug 2018
in Psychosis, Spiritual Emergency
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measuring spiritual emergency

The Questionnaire Measurement of Spiritual Emergency

Measuring Spiritual Emergency Measuring Spiritual Emergency has not been very well defined by numerous authors.  Monika Goretski, PhD., has written one of the most informative and well-respected articles published on this theme.  She reviews the
  • Posted on July 31, 2018
  • Emma Bragdon
  • mental health, psychosis, spiritual, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency
31 Jul 2018
in Spiritual Emergency, Spirituality
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The New Psychiatry

Our Fear of Psychic Phenomena

Spiritist Medical Congress I just returned from a fantastic conference: the 2nd International Spiritist Medical Congress, “The Dawn of a New Era in Medicine”, October 1-2, 2016, at George Washington University in Washington, DC.  The roster
  • Posted on October 6, 2016
  • admin
  • anomalous experience, hallucinations, health, past-life experience, psi, psychosis
06 Oct 2016
in Anomalous Experience, Hallucinations, Meditation, Mental Health, Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Psychiatry, Psychosis, Spirituality, Spiritually Transformative Experiences
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anomalous experience, hallucinations, health, past-life experience, psi, psychosis
The New Psychiatry

Mysticism and Psychosis

The following article is about mysticism, spiritual experiences, spiritual emergence and extreme states of consciousness, aka psychotic process. It was originally published in Seeds of Unfolding, Vol. VI, No. 4, Fall 1989. It is one of
  • Posted on January 1, 2016
  • admin
  • mystic, mysticism, psychosis, psychotic, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency
01 Jan 2016
in Mental Health, Mysticism, Psychiatry, Psychosis, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritually Transformative Experiences
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