What Does It Mean To Have A Spiritual Crisis? | Psychedelic Café 6
In this psychedelic café, we explore spiritual awakening and spiritual crisis; what they are, and what causes them.
We also explore how we heal from spiritual crisis; their connection to trauma; the spiritual roots of healing bipolar; differentiating spiritual crisis from clinical psychiatric illness; the anti-theistic paradigm of psychiatry; personal crisis in the context of global climate crisis; and having a force larger than oneself un-make and remake our lives.
Our guests are:
- Anna Lutkajtis
- Dayle Mcleod
- Benjamin Mudge
- Michelle Anne Hobart
- Kyle Buller
- Dr. Nicole Gruel
For links and Bios for each guest, full show notes, and to watch this episode in video, head to https://bit.ly/PsyCafe6
***Full Topics Breakdown Below***
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Episode Breakdown
- Spiritual crisis as a way of discovering who we really are
- What makes spiritual awakening a crisis and how do we learn from them
- Spontaneous transformations of worldview
- Being dazzled by truth
- Living in a secular society increases the likelihood of spiritual crisis
- Where is the line between psychosis and spiritual crisis
- True spirituality is about love
- What does it mean to have a spiritual crisis?
- Bipolar, schizophrenia, and being unable to resolve a spiritual crisis
- The efficacy of psychiatric drugs in treating bipolar
- The role of the body in resolving spiritual crisis
- The importance of social context in spiritual crisis
- Spiritual crisis as a call to your ancestral lineage
- Preparing the cultural grounds for psilocybin introduction into the medical system
- The paradigm of psychiatry is anti-theistic
- The importance of including indigenous voices
- We are in a global spiritual crisis
- Trauma’s role in spiritual crisis
- How we ground through spiritual crisis experiences
- We need to upgrade our language around religious experiences
- Should we be trying to feel better?