Is it Psychosis or a Spiritual Emergency?

Spiritual Emergency vis a vis Psychosis A “spiritual emergency” is often confused with a psychotic episode. Both are intense.  Both can have dramatic ups and downs.  One minute a person feels elated and inspired.  The
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
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
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
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