Stan Grof

Stan Grof’s Impact on My Life: A Personal Review

In 1980 the Spiritual Emergency Network, SEN, was created by Stan Grof (above) and his wife, Christina Grof. Both my parents had died in 1971 and 1972 of situations related to spiritual emergency in which
spiritual crisis

Do you have to be Religious to have a Spiritual Crisis?

  Who Has a Spiritual Crisis? No, you don’t have to be religious to have such a crisis.  Yes, some priests and ministers have spiritual crises—nuns, too; but, typically, they have not been taught how
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
spiritual healing methods

How to Manage Spiritual Crisis

Spiritual Crisis and Spiritual Emergency Since psychic and spiritual experiences have been pooh-poohed in our culture—to the point we have considered talking to God as a sign of psychosis?-most people are scared of them. But