‘Spiritual Awakenings’: First Contacts with People in Crisis & Spiritual Emergencies. (2nd Edition)
This is a handbook (full of practical, therapeutic and esoteric information) about and for ‘People Experiencing Various Sorts of Psychological, Emotional & Spiritual Crisis, Spiritual Emergence Processes, Spiritual Emergencies, and also for their Carers’. The contents list of the various chapters is indicated below. The 2nd edition is about 50% larger than the first edition and contains information about communities where one can go and where this sort of phenomena can be worked with. However, things have changed a lot since CoVid, so check things out and be sure to ring up and book before you travel.
| Title | Page |
|---|---|
| Introduction | 3 |
| PART ONE | 8 |
| Types of Crisis | 10 |
| Emergency Situations | 11 |
| Identifying a Person in Crisis | 12 |
| Possible Indications or Symptoms of People in Crisis | 13 |
| Levels of Crisis | 18 |
| Making Contact and Staying in Contact | 20 |
| What to Do at First | 22 |
| Use of Psychotherapy | 26 |
| Appropriate Action | 28 |
| Other Ways of Working With a Crisis | 29 |
| Forming a Crisis Group | 32 |
| Forming a Community Around a Person in Crisis | 33 |
| Some Basic Strategies | 35 |
| A “Zen” Space | 36 |
| Meditation & Mindfulness | 37 |
| Transformative Processes | 41 |
| PART TWO | 43 |
| Spiritual Emergencies | 48 |
| Criteria to Help Define a Spiritual Emergency | 48 |
| Symptoms or Types of Spiritual Emergence | 50 |
| Processes | 60 |
| Crisis as Seen in Transformational Terms | 61 |
| Spiritual Technology and Toolkits | 67 |
| Madness Seen Differently | 67 |
| Title | Page |
|---|---|
| Some Self-Help Exercises | 74 |
| Meditation: The Body That Brought Me Here | 75 |
| Meditation: The Castle of the Spirit | 76 |
| Exercise: Rebuilding Your Auric Boundary | 77 |
| Meditation: Dynamic Meditation | 78 |
| Exercise: Death Fantasies and How They Stop You Living | 79 |
| Exercise: The Felt Sense of Self | 80 |
| Meditation: An Ascent into the Dark | 84 |
| Basic Spiritual Principles | 87 |
| Recovery and Integration | 101 |
| The Spirit of the Body & the Body of the Spirit | 103 |
| Crucial Support Issues | 105 |
| Some Caveats | 111 |
| The Rainbow | 113 |
| Transformation & Enlightenment | 117 |
| Quotations | 118 |
| Resource List | 126 |
| Book List | 130 |
| Appendix 1: Spiritual Emergencies in DSM4 – Internet | 136 |
| Appendix 2: Different Facets of the Sense of Self | 140 |
| About the Author | 143 |