Title

Spiritual emergency : when personal transformation becomes a crisis / edited by Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof ; [contributors, R.D. Laing ... et al.].

Publication

New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, c1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grof, Stanislav, 1931-
• Grof, Christina

Description

xvii, 250 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

A New consciousness reader

Uniform Title

New consciousness reader

Subjects

• Psychiatric emergencies
• Spiritual life

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Spiritual emergency: understanding evolutionary crisis / Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof -- Self-realization and psychological disturbances / Roberto Assagioli -- Transcendental experience in relation to religion and psychosis / R.D. Laing -- Spiritual emergence and renewal / John Weir Perry -- When insanity is a blessing: the message of shamanism / Holger Kalweit -- Kundalini: classical and clinical / Lee Sannella -- Challenges of psychic opening: a personal story / Anne Armstrong -- UFO encounter experience as a crisis of transformation / Keith Thompson -- Obstacles and vicissitudes in spiritual practice / Jack Kornfield -- Promises and pitfalls of the spiritual path / Ram Dass -- Assistance in spiritual emergency / Christina Grof and Stanislav Grof -- Counseling the near-death experiencer / Bruce Greyson and Barbara Harris -- Hero's journey: ritualizing the mystery / Paul Rebillot -- Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN) / Jeneane Prevatt and Russ Park -- Epilogue: Spiritual emergence and the global crisis / Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof.

ISBN

0874775388

OCLC

19846650

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library