| Description |
xvii, 250 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New consciousness reader.
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| Contents |
Spiritual emergency: understanding evolutionary crisis / Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof -- Self-realization and psychological disturbances / Roberto Assagioli -- Transcendental experience in relation to religion and psychosis / R.D. Laing -- Spiritual emergence and renewal / John Weir Perry -- When insanity is a blessing: the message of shamanism / Holger Kalweit -- Kundalini: classical and clinical / Lee Sannella -- Challenges of psychic opening: a personal story / Anne Armstrong -- UFO encounter experience as a crisis of transformation / Keith Thompson -- Obstacles and vicissitudes in spiritual practice / Jack Kornfield -- Promises and pitfalls of the spiritual path / Ram Dass -- Assistance in spiritual emergency / Christina Grof and Stanislav Grof -- Counseling the near-death experiencer / Bruce Greyson and Barbara Harris -- Hero's journey: ritualizing the mystery / Paul Rebillot -- Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN) / Jeneane Prevatt and Russ Park -- Epilogue Spiritual emergence and the global crisis / Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof |
| Summary |
Argues that many episodes of transformational crisis have been misdiagnosed as mental illness, and explains how to use such a crisis for spiritual development |
| Notes |
"A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam book" |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 245-250 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Psychiatric emergencies.
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Spiritual life.
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| Author |
Grof, Christina.
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Grof, Stanislav, 1931-
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| LC no. |
89034831 |
| ISBN |
0874775388 |
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