Spiritual Crisis may also be termed Spiritual Emergence or Spiritual Emergency.
Spiritual crisis may be brought on through a variety of means including stress, near-death experiences, spontaneous mystical or shamanic experiences, psychoses, alien abductions or other means.
Sometimes these experiences can be extreme and disorienting. Crisis experiences are often overwhelming and can require outside assistance. Hopefully, this assistance will be helpful rather than harmful.
Bobby's Spiritual Emergency and Visions
Here's a longer version of my NDE and Spiritual Emergency, including an autobiographical account of what these experiences have meant to me:
A Spiritual Emergence JourneySally Clay's
Reins of Wild HorsesMore by Sally (on her site):
The Wounded Prophet
An Experiment in Kindness
Gail's
Odyssey
The Ultimate Quest by Stan Plock
Global Peace Walk Trial by Bloobird
Ellen's Spiritual Crisis/Spiritual Awakening
Three essays by Penny Perlman regarding her experiences with spiritual crisis and psychiatry.
The Commitment Hearing
As Above So Below
My Other Half
Another essay by Penny Perlman, followed by her poem and that of a friend.
Mental Illness or Spiritual Awakening... Your Choice
Rocks
Gentle Stone Women - a response to Rocks
Notes from a Spiritual Emergence workshop by Bob Manrodt
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