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Documentaries and Social Media

  1. Emerging Proud
    By: Katie Mottram
    Emerging Proud features accounts of people telling their personal transformation journey story, to show that it is possible to go from breakdown to breakthrough; what kinds of things they experienced, and what helped them to work their way out of the chrysalis. See also Resources and Brochure.
  2. Shades of Awakening
    A Face book Group with more than 5K members is an excellent source of support and resources
  3. Spiritual Emergency Coaching
    By: Emma Bragdon
    Emma Bragdon trains Spiritual Emergency Coaches which you can learn about on her site. IMHU.org
  4. Crisis guide
    By: Spiritual Emergence Network
    Spiritual Emergence Network Has a Bolg for Crisis Management
  5. CRAZYWISE FILM
    By: Phil Borges and Team
    Crazywise is a 2016 documentary film that explores how people from around the world have turned their psychological crises into positive experiences. The film also examines the traditional wisdom of indigenous cultures, which often contradicts modern views about mental health. Here's a Clip by the creator, Phil Borges

Books

  1. The Call of Spiritual Emergency
    By: Emma Bragdon
    The Call of Spiritual Emergency: From Personal Crisis to Personal Transformation
  2. Spiritual Crisis
    By: Fransje de Waard
    Spiritual Crisis:Varieties and perspectives of a transpersonal phenomenon
  3. Spiritual Emergency: When personal transformation becomes a crisis
    By: Stanislov Grof & Christina Grof
    Spiritual Emergency - When personal transformation becomes a crisis.
  4. The Stormy Serach for the Self
    By: Christina Grof & Stanislov Grof
    The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth through Transformational Crisis
  5. Psychosis and Spirituality
    By: Isabel Clarke, Ed
    Psychosis and Spirituality
  6. Madness, mystery and the survival of God
    By: Isabel Clarke, Ed
    Madness, mystery and the survival of God
  7. Farther Shore
    By: Yvonne Kason, MD
    Farther Shores: Exploring How Near-Death, Kundalini and Mystical Experiences Can Transform Ordinary Lives . Dr. Yvonne Kason is one of a rare breed, a medical doctor who had multiple Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs), including 5 Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). In Soul Lessons from the Light, Dr. Kason intimately shares her fascinating and inspiring stories and lessons learned in her own spiritual awakening journey. From a Kundalini Awakening in medical school, to a plane-crash NDE as a young doctor, to a mystical experience that propelled her to come out of the closet and specialize her medical practice in STEs, to powerful mystical experiences in Israel that changed her life. Dr. Kason also shares the moving story of her miraculous brain-healing, and the 2019 STE that inspired her to found Spiritual Awakenings International®. She introduces the beautiful "Purifying the Heart" model, to understand the stages that spiritual seekers move through. Soul Lessons from the Light is an inspirational must-read for spiritual seekers everywhere.
  8. Touched by the Light
    By: Yvonne Kason, MD
    Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences
  9. Soul Lessons from the Light
    By: Yvonne Kason, MD
    Soul Lessons from the Light
  10. The Red Book
    By: Carl Young
    The Red Book
  11. Archetypes and the collective unconscious
    By: Carl Young
    Archetypes and the collective unconscious
  12. Symbols of Transformation
    By: Carl Young
    Symbols of Transformation
  13. Memories, Dreams and Reflections
    By: Carl Young
    Memories, Dreams and Reflections
  14. Maratos, Denise Christine.
    By: Carl Young
    Man and His Symbols
  15. Self in psychotic process
    By: John W Perry
    Self in psychotic process: Its Symbolization in Schizophrenia (Jungian Classics Series)
  16. Roots and Renewal in Myth and Madness
    By: John W Perry
    Roots and Renewal in Myth and Madness
  17. Trials of the Visionary Mind
    By: John W Perry
    Trials of the Visionary Mind:Spiritual Emergency and the Renewal Process
  18. The Farside of madness
    By: John W Perry
    The Farside of madness
  19. Acute religious experiences: madness, psychosis and religious studies
    By: Marie Grace Brook
    Acute religious experiences: madness, psychosis and religious studies:Dissertation on integrating Spirituality Transformative Experiences. See also this
  20. On the Psychology and Pathology of Extraordinary Experiences
    By: Maratos, Denise Christine.
    On the Psychology and Pathology of Extraordinary Experiences:Pacifica Graduate Institute ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2022.
  21. What is Self?
    By: Bernadette Roberts
    What is Self? A study of the spiritual journey in terms of consciousness
  22. Healing the Split
    By: John E Nelson
    Healing the Split:Integrating Spirit Into our understanding of the mentally ill
  23. Journey Through Transformation: A guide to mystical awakening, kundalini, emotional clearing and spiritual emergence
    By: Kaia Nightengale
    Journey Through Transformation: A guide to mystical awakening, kundalini, emotional clearing and spiritual emergence
  24. Exploration of the Inner World
    By: Anthony Boisen
    Exploration of the Inner World:A Study of Mental Disorder and Religious Experience
  25. In Case of spiritual emergency; Moving successfully through your awakening
    By: Catherine G. Lucas
    In Case of spiritual emergency; Moving successfully through your awakening
  26. Spiritual Psychaitries
    By: Natalie Tobert
    Spiritual Psychiatries: Mental Health Practices in India and UK
  27. Unshrinking Psychosis
    By: John Watkins
    Unshrinking Psychosis
  28. Varieties of religious experience
    By: William James
    Varieties of religious experience
  29. Rethinking Madness
    By: Paris Williams
    Rethinking Madness (Site includes free pdf)
  30. Mysticism
    By: Evelyn Underhill
    Mysticism
  31. Selected Works of RD Liang
    By: RD Liang
    Selected Works of RD Liang
  32. The kundalini guide
    By: Bonnie greenwell
    The Kundalini Guide: A Companion for the Inward Journey (Inward Journey Guides)
  33. The awakening guide
    By: Bonnie greenwell
    The Awakening Guide: A Companion for the Inward Journey (Companions for the Inward Journey)
  34. Cosmic Wonderland
    By: Kathleen Haley Angus
    Cosmic Wonderland
  35. After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
    By: Jack Kornfield
    After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
  36. Saints and Madmen
    By: Russell Shorto
    Saints and Madmen: How Science Got Religion
  37. Breaking Down is Waking Up
    By: Dr. Russell Razzeque
    Breaking Down is Waking Up
  38. Am I Bipolar or Waking Up?
    By: Sean Blackwell
    Am I bipolar or waking up?
  39. NOTES: Non-Ordinary Transcendent Experiences
    By: Dr. Nicole Gruel
    NOTES: Non-Ordinary Transcendent Experiences
  40. Mend the Gap
    By: Katie Mottram
    Mend the Gap: Emerging Proud Books
  41. Scientists and academics share their awakening stories
    By: Multiple
    Scientists and academics share their awakening stories
  42. Introduction to Religious and Spiritual Experience
    By: Rankin
    Introduction to Religious and Spiritual Experience
  43. Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective
    By: Peter Chadwick
    Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective: Explorations at the Outer Reaches of Human Experience -
  44. The Hero with a Thousand Faces
    By: Joseph Campbell
    The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
  45. Out of darkness
    By: Steve Taylor
    Out of the darkness:From Turmoil to Transformation
  46. The Leap
    By: Steve Taylor
    The Leap: The Psychology of Spiritual Awakening (An Eckhart Tolle Edition)
  47. Spiritual Science
    By: Steve Taylor
    Spiritual Science: Why Science needs Spirituality to make Sense of the World
  48. The Unselfish Spirit
    By: Mick Collins
    The Unselfish Spirit: Human Evolution in a time of Global Crisis
  49. Breaking Open
    By: Jules Evans and Dr. Tim Read
    Breaking Open:Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency
  50. Helping People with Spiritual Emergencies
    By: Dr. Bob Nelson
    Helping People with Spiritual Emergencies
  51. My Beautiful Psychosis
    By: Emma Goude
    My Beautiful Psychosis: Making sense of Madness
  52. Spiritual Psychosis
    By: Stephanie-El-Chakieh
    Spiritual Psychosis:Breaking the Concept of Mental Illness while Understanding Psychic or Extrasensory Perception and Transcendence
  53. The Bipolar Game Changer
    By: Andrea Grey
    The Bipolar Game Changer: Harvest Your Special Messages, Glorify Your Superpowers and Re-Uncover Your Mania to Level Up Your Life

Dissertations

  1. [Whole]
    By: Monika Goretzki
    https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/47986/8/02whole.pdf
  2. [Leach]
    By: Donna Ann Leach
    https://repository.tcu.edu/bitstream/handle/116099117/3931/Leach.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
  3. Newsletter on SE
    International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
  4. ACISTE
    American Center for Spiritually Transformative Experiences
  5. Chaya Grossberg's Newsletter
  6. ISPS-US Link
    International Society for Psychosocial Support for Psychosis
  7. Hearing Voices Network

Peer Support in India

  1. Eklavya Foundation for Mental Health
    Eklavya Foundation for Mental Health: Eklavya Foundation was established in September 2021. The foundation mainly focuses on 3 goals, conducting support group meetings for person with mental illness and their caregivers, spreading awareness in the general population, and stigma removal. The organization conducts several programs to fulfil these goals. The activities of the organization are conducted on a voluntary basis
  2. FaceMi
    By: Nirmala Srinivasan
    Families Alliance on Mental Illness, popularly known as "FACEMi India" was launched on September 12, 2015 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. As a pan-Indian advocacy forum, it is engaged with the Cause for mental illness in families affected by Severe Mental Disorders (SMD)such as Schizophrenia and Bi-polar disorders ; and Common Mental Disorders (CMD) such as Anxiety, Depression, OCD etc. We operate as an informal group of families bound together by the common concern for the safety, security and dignity of our loved ones' life under treatment or in need of one. The urban middle class occupies a special place in our advocacy campaigns for the wellness and rights of People with Mental Illness (PwMI) and their families' needs.
  3. UPSIDES
    Using Peer Support In Developing Empowering Mental Health Services (UPSIDES):UPSIDES was launched in 2018 with the aim of establishing and scaling-up peer support interventions in diverse settings to address this problem. Peer support is an evidence-based, yet under-used practice where those who have experienced mental health conditions, support others with similar conditions in their recovery journey.UPSIDES uses a multicentre, pragmatic randomised controlled trial and implementation research framework to assess the effectiveness and impact of the intervention.
  4. Mindclan
    TheMindClan.com. curate inclusive and supportive resources for you can choose from to care for your mental health with ease. You have the right to find an affirmative and non-judgmental space that supports your mental health. They are here to make this process easier and less intimidating.
  5. Mindtalk
    By: Cadbams
    Cadabams has over three decades of experience in treating multiple mental health disorders of varying severity. With offerings that include out-patient consultations, hospitalization during emergencies, and rehabilitation ( both short and long-term), Cadabams is a complete mental healthcare provider.