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Psychic Readings by Kathleen

Many clients share their own spiritual experiences with me which is one of the most privileged aspects of my work whether it involves communications with a loved one in spirit or having an inexplicable psychic insight from telepathy to clairvoyance (knowing what is going to happen in the future).  There are times, however, when spiritual “emergence” can lead to a spiritual “emergency” and there are several contributing factors that can align psychic insight with psychological disturbance.

The factor which most contributes to a spiritual emergency is belief/cognitive rigidity.  Spiritual problems are less likely to occur when a person can weather a life-changing situation gracefully, by both letting go of what has been lost and opening with a positive, trusting attitude toward the future.  Spiritual problems are more likely to occur when a person adheres to notions concerning how life should be and resists change.  People who are completely identified with narrow beliefs about the expression of spiritual life will tend to have more emotional distress than people who are welcoming about spiritual life manifesting in a myriad of ways.

When a person is receptive to change, inner experiences are interesting, even welcome or exciting.  A person who feels threatened is also more likely to feel shame thereby blocking any impetus to reach out for guidance and help.  On the helper side however, traditionally schooled psychologists and psychiatrists are not trained or supervised to assist clients through the mire of spiritual awakening to a healthful and enriched life.  In fact just the opposite is true.  The DSM-1V which is the bible of psychological pathology suggests that the symptoms of spiritual awakening are in fact an indicator of mental illness.

Profound spiritual awakening for example can result in a disorientation which makes a person less interested in work, in social contacts and self care due to the contrast between the magnificent magnitude of spiritual life and the minutiae mundaneness of day to day living.  Add to that the monumental task in communicating about one’s experience to others (in spiritual emergency this is the result of the noetic quality of the experience, not symptomatic of confused thinking). A spiritual experience can result too in dissociation (in spiritual emergency this dissociation is a transitory part of the process of integrating one’s experience).  All of these phenomena tend to subside after a spiritual crisis whereas in a chronic psychosis they do not.

Spiritual emergence is a personal realization of a reality beyond ego reality, and, ultimately, one’s unity with all things.  When we are given an appropriate conceptual framework and community support, a life enhancing spiritual awakening results.  When we have spiritual problems  and are perceived as out of touch with reality, we may be subjected to an inappropriate diagnosis and course of treatment which only serve to intensify the problems!  I often joke with my clients that my vocation became so much more interesting and rewarding once I was freed from the parameters set by traditional counseling methodology.  As a self-outed psychic advisor, who am I criticize?  I am joyously perceived to be well outside any bounds of normalcy which has opened the door in a very exciting way for me to hear/witness personal stories which are enlivening and have supported me tremendously on my road to spiritual understanding and wisdom.

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“An open heart, which creates the ability to be present with compassion, is the most important qualification for a Helper of someone in spiritual emergency.  More than anything else, it is the open-heartedness of the Helper that is essential to facilitating healing or balancing.  Furthermore, a person who has already had a spiritual experience can give reassurance to a person in spiritual crisis.  People who have had an opening to the Divine embody a knowing-ness of the Divine.  This deep personal knowledge and the ability to reassure clients about spiritual experience are important characteristics of a Helper.  Finally, it is critical that the Helper have a familiarity with the unconscious.  That the Helper has confronted their own demons and become conscious of the psychic and astral levels with themselves. With this familiarity comes a respect for the unconscious and , relatively speaking, less fear in dealing with it.  A Helper who has worked with the unconscious is able to provide a client in spiritual emergency with a workable strategy, a model, for relating to unconscious material as it arises.”

A Sourcebook for Helping People with Spiritual Problems by Emma Bragdon, Ph.D. 1993

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Blessings Kathleen

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