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Is Ayahuasca a Shortcut to Spiritual Awakening?

Posted on December 17, 2019 by admin

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 consciousness and connect strongly to the wisdom of the natural world. In the last few decades more North Americans and

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Personal News from Emma Bragdon + New Courses Available!

Posted on December 3, 2019 by admin

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 founded/directed IMHU and it’s time to recharge my batteries…a wise idea. During my Sabbatical the IMHU team will be taking

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Is it Psychosis or a Spiritual Emergency?

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

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 next minute they feel triggered and distressed. It can be scary and disorienting. Is it a Binary? People think, “It’s

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How Sex Abuse and Spiritual Emergence Are Related in Spiritual Teachers

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

“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? Because they have been helped by their teacher. It can create a raw spiritual crisis, a spiritual emergency, when they

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Understanding Psychosis: Sign of Mental Illness or Spiritual Emergency?

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

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 mental illness or a symptom of mental illness. Instead, it is a natural expression of being emotionally and psychically overwhelmed.

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The Questionnaire Measurement of Spiritual Emergency

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

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 questionnaire she developed and used in the following article published in 2009. Monika was specifically interested in the difference between

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Spiritual Emergence: What is it?

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

Spiritual Emergence: The Search for Happiness Inside every person is the deep desire how to find true happiness and spiritual fulfillment. No one can doubt that! Each of us looks for it everyday. Spiritual Emergence is the journey toward the ultimate happiness- the enduring happiness that is ever-present and ever-new. It increases peace, clarity of

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How to Manage Spiritual Crisis

Posted on August 30, 2017 by admin

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 when people get the right kind of support, they find the experiences to be positively transformative! The process of integration,

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Mysticism and Psychosis

Posted on January 1, 2016 by admin 4 Comments

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 a number of papers written by Dr. Tomás Agosin, a psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College

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Treating Spiritual Emergency

Posted on August 7, 2014 by admin 3 Comments

Treating Spiritual Emergency Learn more about treating spiritual emergency: One of the most unusual ways of looking at mental health crises is they are all “spiritual emergencies”. After volunteering within the Spiritual Emergency Network for 7 years, and dedicating much of my lifework as a therapist to facilitating a safe spiritual emergence process, I also

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