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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

Emergence Phenomena: Defined and Discussed

Posted on July 18, 2024 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

Emergence Phenomena: Opening the Dialogue The experiences individuals have as a result of “spiritual emergence” are many and simple categories often miss the subtle differences that are important to acknowledge. Especially if someone is a clinician and needing to make an assessment, i.e. if a client/patient is in a process of spiritual emergence or not.

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence, Uncategorized anomalous experiences, Daniel Ingram, emergence, emergency, emergent phenomena, Frontiers in Psychology, meditation, non-ordinary, Oliver Sandilands, phenomenology, psychedelics, stan grof

Kylea Taylor Speaks About InnerEthics

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

9 minute video with Kylea Taylor Kylea Taylor: An Introduction In the above video Kylea Taylor, LMFT, speaks about how she came to create her course, InnerEthics® and what a student can learn from it. IMHU is honored to host this course as we feel it is essential for all those holding space for

Posted in Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Spiritual Emergence consciousness, ethics, extraordinary states, extreme states, inner ethics, InnerEthics, Kylea Taylor, non-ordinary states, spiritual emergence, stan grof

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Emma Bragdon

The drug, Ketamine, in moderate doses, is now being used legally to effectively help people out of anxiety, depression and the effects of trauma, PTSD. Best usage comes when the medicine is given alongside psychotherapy with a trained psychotherapist present. The MD needs to be in charge of dosage given to empower the psychotherapy and

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Psychedelics ketamine, psychedelic-assisted therapy, psychotherapy, stan grof, Will Siu

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

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

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 they did not receive adequate support. I felt very excited by what the Grofs were doing. I knew the need

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence breathwork, Emma Bragdon, Grof Legacy Training, holotropic breathwork, inner journey, inner journeys, psychedelics, Psychonaut, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergence coach, spiritual emergency, stan grof, stanislav grof, transpersonal