Books
Breaking Open
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Breaking Open is the first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. The contributors are the experts of their own experience, and they share their wild journeys with courage, insight, and poetry. There are fascinating parallels in their experiences, suggesting minds in extremis go to similar places. These are beautiful postcards from the edge of human consciousness, testaments to the soul's natural resilience. These people have returned from their descent with valuable insights for our culture, as we go through a collective spiritual emergency, with old myths and structures breaking down, and new possibilities breaking open. What is there beyond our present egocentric model of reality? What tools can help us navigate the emergence?
In Case of Spiritual Emergency
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Personal stories of spiritual crises are presented alongside practical and effective guidance in this exploration of a fascinating phenomenon. When spiritual emergencies, such as mystical psychosis and dark nights of the soul, are understood, managed, and integrated, they can offer enormous potential for growth and fulfillment, and this book offers three key phases for successful navigation. Encouraging, supportive, and life-saving, this resource is essential for avoiding the mental, emotional, or spiritual paralysis or exhaustion that can result from underestimating the current age of increased individual and global emergencies.
The Call of Spiritual Emergency
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Learn more about the phenomena of spiritual awakening. Read compelling stories of those who tell about their unusual experiences. Recognize the triggers for spiritual emergency and realize that increasing numbers all over the world are going through these evolutionary psychic openings. They leave us more intuitive, more telepathic, more compassionate, and wanting to be of assistance to others on the path of evolution.
Spiritual Emergency, When personal transformation becomes a crisis.
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Increasing numbers of people are experiencing spiritual emergencies -- crises when the process of growth and change becomes chaotic and overwhelming. Individuals experiencing such episodes may feel that their sense of identity is breaking down, that their old values no longer hold true, and that the very ground beneath their personal realities is radically shifting.
However, there is a new perspective developing among many mental health professionals and those studying spiritual development that views such crises as transformative breakthroughs that can hold tremendous potential for physical and emotional healing.
The Stormy Search for the self
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Explores these "spiritual emergencies," altered states so powerful they threaten to overwhelm the individual's ordinary reality. Provide insights, assurances, and practical suggestions for those who are experiencing or have experienced such a crisis, for their families and friends, and for mental-health professionals. It is also a valuable guide for anyone involved in personal transformation whose experiences, though generally un-traumatic, may still at times be bewildering or disorienting.
Psychosis and Spirituality
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The new edition of Psychosis and Spirituality presents the most recent body of qualitative and quantitative research in its exploration of the interface between psychosis and spirituality. This book offers a fundamental rethinking of the concept of psychosis, and proposes new insights into spirituality.
My Beautiful Psychosis
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My Beautiful Psychosis: Making Sense of Madness is a stunning debut memoir from international award winning documentary filmmaker, Emma Goude. It is a gritty tale of transformation, depicting from the inside some of the most powerful experiences a human mind can endure. It questions conventional methods of treating psychosis and point towards a radical vision where diagnosis of mental illness makes allowances for spiritual growth and transformation rather than simply treating a perceived brain chemical imbalance.
Madness Mystery and the Survival of God
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The conventional scientific world view cannot accommodate God. Yet, the world wide resurgence of religion, particularly in its most fundamentalist forms, flies in the face of science. Our seemingly secular society cannot tear itself away from fascination with the supernatural. Alongside the attraction of drugs, this reveals a yearning for something beyond.
This book offers a new way into the paradox. The feared experience of madness becomes the key to the human ability to operate in two ways at once. Science studies our individual side but is blind to our potential to participate in a reality beyond that which we can precisely know - the territory of religion.
Isabel Clarke is a psychological therapist, at home in her work with the experience of people diagnosed with psychosis and other severe mental health problems. Familiarity with their experience, together with a knowledge of the spiritual literature and of research into the processing capacity of the brain, led to her central conclusion:that psychosis and spiritual experience both inhabit that other reality - a reality that is integral and vital for all humans.
This new perspective on faith and psychosis offers insight into the unshakable conviction of both delusion and religious fanaticism. The survival of faith and superstition in a secular age is explained. God is located within the scientific world view in a way that respects mystery and so enlarges rather than diminishes our vision.
Lighthouse Guide and Journal: A guide and journal to help you find peace and balance
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This guide is here to help you find peace and balance when you are experiencing a spiritual or mental crisis. With many tips to find a safe and calm space, to become centred and stay connected.
If you don't know which way to go or where to find help, this guide can offer a way to find support. No matter if you are experiencing a mental breakdown, burnout, spiritual crisis or a dark night of the soul, these processes can lead to a breakthrough and healing.
One day you may even be a lighthouse for others. This is not only a guide, but also a journal, including gratitude pages, self care pages, kindness pages, fitness tracker, mood tracker and habit trainer.
Trauma and The Soul: A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption
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In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)-this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes, including therapeutic dialogue and dreams, he shows how depth psychotherapy with trauma's survivors can open both analytic partners to "another world" of non-ordinary reality in which daimonic powers reside, both light and dark. This mytho-poetic world, he suggests, is not simply a defensive product of our struggle with the harsh realities of living as Freud suggested, but is an everlasting fact of human experience-a mystery that is often at the very center of the healing process, and yet at other times, strangely resists it.
Soul Lessons from the Light. How Spirituality transformative experiences changed my life.
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Dr. Yvonne Kason is one of a rare breed, a medical doctor who had multiple Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs), including 5 Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). In Soul Lessons from the Light, Dr. Kason intimately shares her fascinating and inspiring stories and lessons learned in her own spiritual awakening journey. From a Kundalini Awakening in medical school, to a plane-crash NDE as a young doctor, to a mystical experience that propelled her to come out of the closet and specialize her medical practice in STEs, to powerful mystical experiences in Israel that changed her life.
Dr. Kason also shares the moving story of her miraculous brain-healing, and the 2019 STE that inspired her to found Spiritual Awakenings International®. She introduces the beautiful “Purifying the Heart” model, to understand the stages that spiritual seekers move through. Soul Lessons from the Light is an inspirational must-read for spiritual seekers everywhere.
Crossing Thresholds, Stories and art from beyond the boundaries of ordinary consciousness
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Crossing Thresholds shares the stories of nine artists, gathered during a research project exploring visual art and nonordinary states of consciousness. The stories and accompanying art demonstrate the extraordinary capacity of the human mind to access subtle information, and how the creative process can facilitate a dialogue with a mysterious source.