Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency
Personal accounts exploring the shift from mental illness to spiritual awakening.

The first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. Our authors are the experts of their own experience, and they share their wild journeys with courage, insight and poetry.

There are fascinating parallels in their experiences, suggesting minds in extremis go to similar places. These are beautiful postcards from the edge of human consciousness, testaments to the soul's natural resilience. Our authors have returned from their descent with valuable insights for our culture, as we go through a collective spiritual emergency, with old myths and structures breaking down, and new possibilities breaking open.

What is there beyond our present egocentric model of reality? What tools can help us navigate the emergence?

"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the connection between spiritual awakening and what we normally term 'mental illness.' It is full of inspirational and moving stories that show that psychological disturbances often lead to significant personal growth, if supported properly. As a culture, we urgently need a new paradigm of mental illness and treatment, and this and this book makes an important contribution to that shift.' Steve Taylor PhD, author of The Leap and Spiritual Science

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Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency
Personal accounts exploring the shift from mental illness to spiritual awakening.

The first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. Our authors are the experts of their own experience, and they share their wild journeys with courage, insight and poetry.

There are fascinating parallels in their experiences, suggesting minds in extremis go to similar places. These are beautiful postcards from the edge of human consciousness, testaments to the soul's natural resilience. Our authors have returned from their descent with valuable insights for our culture, as we go through a collective spiritual emergency, with old myths and structures breaking down, and new possibilities breaking open.

What is there beyond our present egocentric model of reality? What tools can help us navigate the emergence?

"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the connection between spiritual awakening and what we normally term 'mental illness.' It is full of inspirational and moving stories that show that psychological disturbances often lead to significant personal growth, if supported properly. As a culture, we urgently need a new paradigm of mental illness and treatment, and this and this book makes an important contribution to that shift.' Steve Taylor PhD, author of The Leap and Spiritual Science

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Overview

Personal accounts exploring the shift from mental illness to spiritual awakening.

The first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. Our authors are the experts of their own experience, and they share their wild journeys with courage, insight and poetry.

There are fascinating parallels in their experiences, suggesting minds in extremis go to similar places. These are beautiful postcards from the edge of human consciousness, testaments to the soul's natural resilience. Our authors have returned from their descent with valuable insights for our culture, as we go through a collective spiritual emergency, with old myths and structures breaking down, and new possibilities breaking open.

What is there beyond our present egocentric model of reality? What tools can help us navigate the emergence?

"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the connection between spiritual awakening and what we normally term 'mental illness.' It is full of inspirational and moving stories that show that psychological disturbances often lead to significant personal growth, if supported properly. As a culture, we urgently need a new paradigm of mental illness and treatment, and this and this book makes an important contribution to that shift.' Steve Taylor PhD, author of The Leap and Spiritual Science


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781912807703
Publisher: Aeon Books
Publication date: 04/26/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 236
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Jules Evans is an author, broadcaster and academic philosopher. He is a research fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London, where he researches the history and philosophy of flourishing. He was a BBC New Generation Thinker and a Times book of the year author. He is the author of 'Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations' (2012) and 'The Art of Losing Control' (2017). He blogs at www.philosophyforlife.org


Jules Evans is an author, broadcaster and academic philosopher. He is a research fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London, where he researches the history and philosophy of flourishing. He was a BBC New Generation Thinker and a Times book of the year author. He is the author of 'Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations' (2012) and 'The Art of Losing Control' (2017). He blogs at www.philosophyforlife.org


Tim Read is a medical doctor, psychiatrist and psychotherapist based in London. He was Consultant Psychiatrist at the Royal London Hospital for 20 years leading the Emergency Liaison service and the Crisis Intervention Service. He has trained in psychoanalytic therapy (IGA) and in transpersonal therapy (GTT). He is a certified facilitator of Holotropic Breathwork and has a special interest in working with expanded states of consciousness. His book 'Walking Shadows: Archetype and Psyche in Crisis and Growth' was published in 2015.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Tim Read and Jules Evans

CHAPTER ONE
The ones who dream of tigers
Deborah Martin

CHAPTER TWO
The accidental guru
John Ablett

CHAPTER THREE
Chasing transcendence
Anna Beckmann

CHAPTER FOUR
Dissolving on the motorway
Louisa Tomlinson

CHAPTER FIVE
The in-between place
Jules Evans

CHAPTER SIX
The ball of light
Cornelia Cacu

CHAPTER SEVEN
Wrestling with angels
Stephen Fitzpatrick

CHAPTER EIGHT
The motherhood ear
Amy Pollard

CHAPTER NINE
The chaplain who thought he was Jesus
Satyin Taylor

CHAPTER TEN
The fire of becoming
Angela Cotter”

CHAPTER ELEVEN
The boy who stank to high heaven
Rob Charles

CHAPTER TWELVE
From fear towards love
Dan Sherwen

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The master
Mike Benthall

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The spiritual dimension of bipolar disorder
Sean Blackwell

CONCLUDING COMMENTS
Tim Read and Jules Evans

BIOGRAPHIES AND FURTHER RESOURCES
INDEX

 

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