 | Spiritual Emergency (New Consciousness Reader) by Stanislav Grof
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.27 THE quintessential resource for understanding the types of spiritual emergency, and how they are different from mental illness.
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 | Healing Presence: Bodily Felt Experiencings of Transpersonal Connection in Naturopathic and Non-Clinical Settings by Deah, Ph.D. Curry
Buy new: $14.54 / Used from: $8.99 Co-written by this listmania author, this book offers real life stories of 15 people, some of whom worked through spiritual emergency experiences with the help of the felt healing presence of a clinician, trusted colleague, and even one's own higher self and spirit allies. An inspiring must read for all in the helping professions.
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 | The Kundalini Experience: Psychosis or Transcendence by Lee Sannella
Buy used from: $7.89 For those who meditate without expert guidance, it is possible to open oneself to the rise of the metaphysical energies known as the kundalini, which may mimic either panic attack or psychosis, but is in fact a profound experience of transcendence. This book can help you make the distinction in your own experience.
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 | The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth by Gerald G. May
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.50 Some spiritual emergency experiences seem like profound depression, or bipolar grandiosity when a better explanation would be a dark night of the soul. This book compares the commonalities and differences between emotional pathology and spiritual growth.
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 | Sourcebook for Helping People in Spiritual Emergency by Emma Bragdon
Drawn from her doctoral dissertation work, this book is helpful for people navigating the rocky roads of spiritual emergency on their own -- and is a great guide for those in the helping professions who suspect that their clients' distress isn't mental illness at all.
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 | Healing States: A Journey Into the World of Spiritual Healing and Shamanism by Alberto Villoldo
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $6.74 An excellent resource for understanding a completely different paradigm within which spiritual emergencies are not pathologized, as they are in Western psychology and monotheistic religions. Written by eminent scholars in the field, but readable.
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 | Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $18.50 This proper textbook has chapters from eminent scholars on a wide range of out of the ordinary experiences, some of which could be classified spiritual emergency, or which might provoke spiritual emergency. Very academic in tone, this isn't light reading, but it's worthwhile for the serious student of this subject.
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