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Resources for Spiritual Emergency: Reboot Your Life in the Pandemic

Resources for Spiritual Emergency: Reboot Your Life in the Pandemic   Spiritual Emergency can be seen as a crisis in connection–without resources to re-establish connection. Experiencers (we) feel less connection to “all that is”, aka
Yvonne Kason

Spiritual Awakenings International Launches

Yvonne Kason, MD., President of SAI Yvonne is the author of Touched by the Light and other books about Near Death Experience and Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs)*.  She is now retired as a medical doctor/psychotherapist
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Addressing Misconceptions about Mediums: “Well, actually…”

The mission of The Windbridge Research Center is to ease suffering around dying, death, and what comes next by performing rigorous scientific research and sharing the results and other customized content with practitioners, clinicians, scientists, and the general public.
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
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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
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
Ayahuasca

Is Ayahuasca a Shortcut to Spiritual Awakening?

Ayahuasca: Is It a Viable Shortcut? Ayahuasca is a brew made from plants that grow in the rain forest.  It has been used in ceremony by indigenous peoples in Central and South America to expand
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Personal News from Emma Bragdon + New Courses Available!

Dear Friends of IMHU, After just creating five new courses for IMHU.org, I will be taking a Sabbatical leave from IMHU starting December, 2019-beginning of May, 2020.  It has been about 7 years since I

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
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How Sex Abuse and Spiritual Emergence Are Related in Spiritual Teachers

“The Cardinal” by E. Grutzner, 1846-1925? Spiritual Teachers and Spiritual Emergence Those on a path of spiritual emergence, seeking spiritual growth, often assume that their spiritual teachers are leading lives committed to helping others.  Why?