~Spiritual Emergencies ~
Psychosis or Transcendence?
“The mystic endowed with native talents…and following the instruction of a master, enters the waters and finds he can swim; whereas the schizophrenic, unprepared, unguided, and ungifted, has fallen or has intentionally plunged and is drowning.”
~Joseph Campbell
Over 100,000 young adults are diagnosed as psychotic each year, but are they actually psychotic? The Western medical model does not allow for mystical experience and diagnoses those as psychotic experiences, pronouncing a stigmatizing label on the unwary individual and prescribing soul-deadening medication, aborting the natural spiritual development of the individual. Knowing the difference between true psychosis and spiritual transcendence is essential, as more and more of us are awakening to a greater reality, which is demonized by both science and religion. Join us as we explore this important subject.
“Spiritual emergency can be defined as critical and experientially difficult stages of a profound psychological transformation that involves one’s entire being.”
Stanislav Grof, PhD
Course Topics Include:
What is a Spiritual Emergency?
Types of Spiritual Emergencies
Diagnostic Criteria for both Psychosis & Spiritual Emergence
Assisting with Spiritual Emergency & Appropriate Referral for PsychosisWho is the Crazy One! Diagnosing the Mental Health Profession
Professional Diagnosis Can Grievously Impact Your Life
How to Avoid DiagnosisCrazy Wisdom & Holy Fools ~ Mystics & Shamans as Historical Change Agents
Forty Thousand Years of Violent Repression of Mystics by both Science
and Religion.Major Initiations on the Spiritual Path: Trials & Tribulations
Dark Night of the Ego
Dark Night of the Soul
Dark Night of the Spirit
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