Spiritual Emergency or Psychosis (w/ bipolarorwakingup ) Podcast 05

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What is a Spiritual Emergency?

“Spiritual emergency can be defined as critical and experientially difficult stages of a profound psychological transformation that involves one's entire being. They take the form of non-ordinary states of consciousness and involve intense emotions, visions and other sensory changes, unusual thoughts as well as various physical manifestations.

Episodes of this nature can be found in the life stories of shamans, founders of the great religions of the world, famous spiritual teachers, mystics, and saints. Mystical literature of the world describes these crises as important signposts of the spiritual path and confirms their healing and transformative potential. Mainstream psychiatrists do not differentiate psychospiritual crises, or even episodes of uncomplicated mystical experiences, from serious mental diseases, because of their narrow conceptual framework”.

Non-Ordinary States: “Altered states of consciousness, sometimes called non-ordinary states, include various mental states in which the mind can be aware but is not in its usual wakeful condition, such as during hypnosis, meditation, hallucination, trance, and the dream stage”.

(Quote from https://holotropic-association.eu/what-is-spiritual-emergency)

Time Stamps

0:00:00 Intro
0:01:15 Sean’s First Manic Episode
0:12:15 Spiritual Emergency?
0:15:35 From Spiritual Emergency to Spiritual Breakthrough
0:17:57 Integration
0:19:35 Mountain Top Experiences
0:22:44 How Long did it take Sean to Get Down the Mountain Top
0:30:06 Shamanism
0:36:21 My Mystical Experience
0:41:27 Being in Touch With the Quantum Healing Field Around Us
0:44:02 How an Ego collapse can lead to psychosis
50:32 How to recover from an Ego collapse
52:38 How love or fear/trauma affects your psychosis
55:24 My 2nd bad weed trip and psychosis
59:55 Being able to relate to people going through psychosis
1:01:18 How Sean Met the Authors of Breaking Open
1:04:08 Where can you connect with Sean?

Quotes:
16:48 I got used to the living with the idea that the shared reality we all have and know that we think of in rational and linear ways, actually has dream like qualities to it.

18:47 As you integrate (non ordinary states) you start to say to the world, “I understand that everyone agrees and things go in a particular way but this is who I am and this is what I’m about and I think we can do things a little bit different to accommodate what I have to share”.

21:10 The most important spiritual experience is right in daily life when you wake up in the morning.

34:29 Following the work of Stan Grof, all of our mental disorders are rooted in various forms of trauma. Those traumas are held as blocked energy in our bio energetic system/chakra system.

38:27 We’ve got this spiritual dimension to our bodies and we get into non ordinary state experiences, we can work through these energies in these non ordinary states.

45:12 The ego is the false self. It’s the thing you think you are but you aren’t exactly this thing because it can break down at any time.

47:37 The ego is seeking to close off the world, because the world has so much variety to it and so many different interpretations to it, that it’s too much for us to a certain degree. If you lose your ego... then guess what you go into acute psychosis... if the ego breaks down a little you can have a nice opening and it’s beneficial for you, if it breaks down too much you can really got lost.

50:57 The intention of acute psychosis is the reorganization of the psyche. So the idea is you are breaking down and then healing what needs to be healed, then you come back to a better place.

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