RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL PATHS
ONLINE COURSES [back to top] RELIGIONS AND SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS [back to top] SPIRITUAL PROBLEMS AND EMERGENCIES [back to top] - Christina Grof
This interview with the co-author of the concept of spiritual emergency and co-founder of the Spiritual Emergency Network covers the nature of spiritual crises, including her own. - Enlightenment.com
Includes articles on the enlightenment experience, including associated problems. - Exceptional Human Experience Network
The EHE Network is an educational and research organization focused on exceptional human experience (EHE): spontaneous anomalous experiences of the psychic, mystical, encounter, and death-related type. Includes accounts and articles on EHE. - Ex-cult Archive
This site for both professionals and cult survivors covers the psychology and watch dogging of cults, information and warnings about specific cult groups, a listing of cults on the WWW, links to other web resources, and full text online literature. - Kundalini Resource Center
A community of people working together on the Internet to raise public awareness of kundalini, and to help those who are experiencing a kundalini awakening better understand what is happening to them. - Sacred Transformations
Personal stories of spiritual emergencies, visions, awakenings, and their effects. - Spiritual Emergence Service
A non-profit Canadian society staffed by volunteers that offers information and referrals for people in psychospiritual crisis. - Spiritual Emergency Resource Center
A guide for clinicians and a self-help resource for people integrating a spiritual crisis. Personal experiences and opinions can be shared on an online discussion forum. - The Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN@CIIS)
Now called the Center for Psychological & Spiritual Health (CPSH). An information and Referral Service that offers support and resources for individuals experiencing difficulties with their spiritual growth (415-575-6299)
THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS [back to top]
RELIGIOUS AND SPRIRTUAL PROBLEMS
ALIEN ENCOUNTER EXPERIENCES [back to top] CHANGES IN MEMBERSHIP, PRACTICES AND BELIEFS [back to top] - Case Report: Decision-Making Capacity and Religious Conversion-- A Case of Dialysis Refusal
Dinesh Mittal, MD, Samuel F. Sears Jr., PhD, Phillip R. Godding, PhD, and Marti D. Reynolds, MDiv (1999) Annals of Long-Term Care, 7(8),320-322 - Conversion Experience William James's chapter
- from The Varieties of Religious Experience
- ARTICLE: The Psychology of Religious Conversion by Henry Newton Malony, PhD
Describes the social influence factors that lead to religious conversions. - ARTICLE: The Psychology of Religious Conversion by Lewis Rambo
Reviews various theories of conversion, examines the role of cultural and social factors in the conversion process, and describes how different religions and disciplines view conversion.
LOSS OR QUESTIONING OR FAITH [back to top] LOSS, QUESTIONING, OR CHANGE IN SPIRITUAL VALUES [back to top] MEDITATION AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES [back to top] MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE [back to top] NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE [back to top] NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND CULTS [back to top] - ARTICLE: A Critical View of Deprogramming
by Lee Coleman,MD - ARTICLE: Adolescent attraction to cults Adolescence Fall, 1998
- American Family Foundation
Resources about psychological manipulation, cult groups, sects, and new religious movements - ARTICLE: Cult Experience: Psychological Abuse, Distress, Personality Characteristics
Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1998 - ARTICLE: Deprogramming, Exit Counseling, and Ethics: Clarifying the Confusion
by Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. and Paul Martin, PhD - ARTICLE: Essay on Definition of Cult
by Michael Langone,PhD - Religious movement profiles from the University of Virginia
- Satanic Ritual Abuse from Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
- Satanic Ritual Abuse Topics
- ARTICLE: The Cult Threat: Real or Imagined
by Gordon Melton
POSSESSION OPENING [back to top] PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES [back to top] SHAMANIC CRISIS [back to top] TERMINAL AND LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS [back to top] VISIONARY EXPERIENCE [back to top]
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