Good insights about Psychospiritual Crisis

"One of the most important implications of the research of holotropic states is the realization that many of the conditions, which are currently diagnosed as psychotic and indiscriminately treated by suppressive medication, are actually difficult stages of a radical personality transformation and of spiritual opening. If they are correctly understood and supported, these psychospiritual crises can result in emotional and psychosomatic healing, remarkable psychological transformation, and consciousness evolution (Grof and Grof 1989, 1990).

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.

When we emphasize the need to recognize the existence of psychospiritual crises, this does not mean indiscriminate rejection of the theories and practices of traditional psychiatry. Not all states that are currently diagnosed as psychotic are crises of psychospiritual transformation or hav a healing potential. Episodes of nonordinary states of consciousness cover a very broad spectrum from purely spiritual experiences to conditions that are clearly biological in nature and require medical treatment. While modern psychiatrists generally tend to pathologize mystical states, there also exists the opposite error of romanticizing and glorifying psychotic states or, even worse, overlooking a serious medical problem."

Sharing from heart space

There is an inexplicable phenomenon going on inside my heart space, and I will share it. Amidst all the turmoil, all the suffering and chaos, there is some kind of powerful light at the end of these tunnels. There is hope beyond what you’ve imagined or felt but it’s time to feel it. If I sit in meditation and do breath work, this awareness of world transformation and many huge transitions and beautiful transmissions are available and are on their way. To be clear, I’m not negating or denying the depth of our current suffering, the way we are collectively cut off from source light, love and power. I’m not denying the suffering of individuals either. It is with all this in mind that I bring so. Much. Hope. If you cannot sense it, there is nothing wrong with you! That means you have not yet been called to find it in you, but when you’re ready, you will.