Reasons to Value Spiritual Experiences in Mental Health

  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.
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Spiritual Experiences in Increasing Numbers

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

Choosing Evolution

  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
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Our Next Step in Evolution

  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. 

Interview with Phil Borges

  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

IMHU Future

  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
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NAMI on Spiritual Emergency

  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

Moral Injury and Spiritual Emergency

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,
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Meditation Sickness & Spiritual Emergency

  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
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The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC)

      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