spiritual emergency Archives

Reasons to Value Spiritual Experiences in Mental Health

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZL-axoqKU Expert Summary: How Spiritual Experiences Fit into Mental Health May 17, 2025. Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, PhD, gives his hourlong acceptance speech for the Oskar Pfister Award at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Conference. Dr. M-A is a prolific researcher, who has also written many published articles and books on the subject of spirituality,

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence Alexander Moreira Almeida, APA, brain, Brazil, consciousness, life after death, mediumship, mental health, NDE, near death experience, Oskar Pfister Aware, psychosis, reincarnation, spiritual emergency, spiritual experience

Spiritual Experiences in Increasing Numbers

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Over the last 40+ years I have wondered, “What percentage of people are experiencing personally transformative spiritual experiences?” Since these experiences have previously been seen as possible hallucinations or delusions indicative of psychosis, relatively few people have felt comfortable reporting about them to surveys–even friends and family–for fear of being perceived as mentally ill. Currently,

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Spiritual Emergence emergent phenomena, EPRC, Pew Research, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual experiences

Choosing Evolution

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Emma Bragdon 6 Comments

Choosing Evolution Paul Levy is an author, creator, long-term meditator, and consultant. About 40 years ago he underwent a dramatic spiritual crisis, during which he was taken to be mentally ill and hospitalized. He has since gleaned a deep understanding of spiritual awakening, its twists and turns, and supports individuals in this process through

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency awakening, compassion, creativity, Emma Bragdon, evolution, meditation, Paul Levy, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergency

Our Next Step in Evolution

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

Supporting Evolution Evolution of humanity is being supported by the two men above who are both articulate elders, coming from deep student of mystic traditions as well as profound perspective on our modern day. The interview above was created in June 2024. In mid-December, 2024 we will be posting a new interview-blog with Emma

Posted in Mental Illness, Spiritual Crisis Andrew Harvey, evil, evolution, mental health, mental illness, mystic, mysticsm, Paul Levy, psychosis, quantum physics, Sacred Activism, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spritiual crisis, wetiko

Interview with Phil Borges

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

Phil Borges and Emma Bragdon in Conversation On October 28, 2024, I interviewed Phil Borges. He is the co-producer of Crazywise, a documentary film depicting Spiritual Emergency through the real life stories of two individuals. The film also includes short dialogues with spiritual teachers and psychotherapists who offer their perspectives that Spiritual Emergency is

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency Emma Bragdon, Phil Borges, psychosis, shamanism, Shamans, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, stan grof

IMHU Future

Posted on May 8, 2024 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

IMHU Future IMHU is celebrating our 11th year anniversary on May 11, 2024. We want to share the path ahead. We invite you to also share your interests so we can add your comments to discussion about future presentations. Click HERE to submit. We understand that helping people understand and appropriately support spiritual emergence,

Posted in Spiritual Emergence Emma Bragdon, IMHU, inner ethics, integration, Spiritism, spiritual awakenings international, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency

NAMI on Spiritual Emergency

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

NAMI was founded in 1977. They offer support groups and education for free to all touched by mental health issues. Currently one in five people in the USA suffer from a mental health issue–NAMI is often called on for help by those who can’t afford psychotherapists. NAMI is affiliated with 700 groups throughout the

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency cultural competency, mental health, mental illness, NAMI, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency

Moral Injury and Spiritual Emergency

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Emma Bragdon 3 Comments

Moral Injury and Spiritual Emergency by Emma Bragdon, PhD Joshua Mantz, (above), fresh out of West Point Academy, was a second lieutenant in the army deployed in 2006 to a dangerous zone in Baghdad, Iraq, at age 23. Within months he was shot by a sniper, almost bled to death, and flatlined for 15 minutes

Posted in Spiritual Emergency chaplain, existential crisis, moral injury, religion, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spirituality, suicide, veterans

Meditation Sickness & Spiritual Emergency

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Emma Bragdon 5 Comments

Spiritual Emergency and Meditation Sickness The term, “Meditation Sickness”, was not just made up. It’s a translation from words in ancient Buddhist texts. It refers to psychological and physical problems that may arise during Buddhist meditation. It includes severe problems like extreme states that create an urge to suicide. As a pioneer and counselor

Posted in Meditation, Spiritual Emergency awakening, Buddhism, Buddhist practices, meditation, meditator, mental health, mindfulness, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency

The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC)

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Emma Bragdon

The EPRC is a multinational alliance of researchers, clinicians, and patrons who share a vision of bringing scientific methods and clinical sensibilities to the rigorous, ethical, ontologically-agnostic study of emergent phenomena. Daniel Ingram, MD (above) author of “Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book”, brought the EPRC

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness daniel m. ingram, emergent phenomena, EPRC, prayer, psychedelics, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, yoga