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    » Home » Facing The Darkness

    15 Signs You’re Experiencing a Spiritual Emergency

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    by Aletheia · Feb 22, 2022 · 157 Comments

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    You’ve gone through a tremendous spiritual awakening. Your life perspective has changed drastically. You’re no longer the same person you once were a few years ago.

    But something has gone horribly wrong.

    While others on the spiritual path are reveling in their deep insights, you feel suffocated under the weight of an existential crisis. 

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    While others are busy reconnecting with their meaning of life, you can barely function in a job or even get out of bed to shower.

    While others feel a deeper sense of peace and alignment, you feel like you’re on the verge of going crazy or being sucked into the black hole of depression forever.

    What on earth has happened?

    Is it something you did wrong? Is it because you’re not worthy? Is it because you’re not strong enough?

    Answer: NO, not at all. What you are experiencing has nothing to do with your strengths or capabilities.

    What you’re experiencing is something called a spiritual emergency. And as we’ll see throughout the rest of this article, it’s a normal process that many people experience during their spiritual paths, and it’s not your fault.

    Table of contents

    • What is a Spiritual Emergency?
    • 15 Signs You’re Experiencing a Spiritual Emergency 
    • Why Do Spiritual Emergencies Happen?
    • Are You Experiencing a Spiritual Emergency or Mental Illness?
    • Types of Spiritual Emergency 
    • How to Cope With the Spiritual Emergency
    • Helpful Organizations
    • The Spiritual Emergency is a Sacred Process

    What is a Spiritual Emergency?

    The spiritual emergency is a severe crisis an individual may experience after going through a spiritual awakening. Essentially, a spiritual emergency occurs when the spiritual awakening process speeds up so much that it becomes terrifying and destabilizing to the body and mind. 

    “Spiritual emergency” as a word was first coined Czech psychiatrists Stanislav and Christina Grof and was expanded in the 1989 book Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis. Since then it has increased in popularity, although is still relatively unheard of within mainstream spiritual communities. (I want to change that.)

    Spiritual emergencies can happen to anyone at any point in life. Those who are not particularly ‘spiritual’ can experience it just as often as those who are actively engaged on the spiritual path. The common uniting factor is usually that a person undergoes a shock (in the form of illness, family death, major life change, etc.) that triggers the spiritual crisis.

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    The spiritual emergency can last anywhere from a few days to a number of years. The process is very much dependant on what kind of environment you live in and how supportive vs. unsupportive it is.

    15 Signs You’re Experiencing a Spiritual Emergency 

    Image of a sad woman and a curtain experiencing a spiritual emergency

    Cosmic love is absolutely ruthless and highly indifferent; it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not.

    – John Lilly

    If you’re going through a spiritual emergency, you have my love and support. This is probably one of the most painful, disorienting, and scary experiences you will ever go through – but please know that it does end, and it is worth going through. (I’ll explore why later.)

    Below, you’ll find fifteen signs commonly experienced during spiritual emergencies:

    1. You find it impossible to cope with everyday tasks (like going shopping, showering, cooking, keeping up with the bills, etc.)
    2. You can’t hold down a job due to your intense sensitivity 
    3. It feels like your whole world is crumbling around you
    4. You struggle to sleep properly and may experience night terrors
    5. Your inner and outer world blur confusingly
    6. You experience a rollercoaster of emotions
    7. You may experience strange hallucinations (e.g., images, sounds, physical impressions)
    8. Your grasp on the real and logical is weak (resulting in psychotic-like symptoms)
    9. You may believe, at some point, that you’re the reincarnation of enlightened figures like Jesus, Buddha, Mary, etc. (this is called ego-inflation and is a result of Universal Consciousness overlapping with your own personal consciousness)
    10. You may experience vivid past-life flashbacks
    11. You feel strange sensations in your body (e.g., vibrations, shivers, heat, burning)
    12. You’ve developed a medically unexplainable illness
    13. You experience more synchronicity or meaningful coincidences
    14. You feel like you’re being sucked into a different dimension or black hole
    15. You feel like you’re going crazy

    Of course, this list is not exhaustive. I’m sure there are many other symptoms out there I’ve forgotten to include, so please share below if you think I’ve missed any.


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    Also, those who work in the mental health field may have a thing or two to say about the above list of symptoms. Yes, it’s true that many of the above symptoms overlap with ‘bipolar disorder,’ ‘manic-depression,’ ‘schizophrenia,’ etc. We’ll explore this important overlap a little later – and what it means for you.

    Why Do Spiritual Emergencies Happen?

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    Honestly, there is no single known reason why spiritual emergencies happen. The cause, I suspect, is unique for everyone.

    But here are some explanations:

    1. It’s your destiny – by experiencing an accelerated spiritual awakening process, you are about to learn some profound lessons, work through a tremendous amount of karma, and transform into the most illuminated version of yourself possible in this lifetime.
    2. Your conditioning was particularly strong – conditioning meaning the beliefs, ideas, habits, and patterns adopted from your parents and society. To break through these forms of conditioning and dissolve them (so you can experience a conscious ‘upgrade’), you had to undergo a particularly intense spiritual awakening.
    3. You’re a gifted shaman, priestess, healer, or “walker between worlds” – part of your spiritual awakening process involves connecting you with the forces of the unconscious mind or “spirit realm” which you have not yet learned to navigate (hence why you’re experiencing a spiritual emergency).
    4. You’re dealing with past karma – in some belief systems it’s believed that we deal with unresolved trauma from our past lives in this lifetime – and that may take the shape of a spiritual emergency to help you purge ancient patterns and develop a ‘clean slate.’
    5. You’re more sensitive – we all have various levels of sensitivity, and those who undergo a spiritual emergency may be more sensitive and empathic than others. This may explain why the would-be spiritual awakening turns into a spiritual emergency; it’s simply too overwhelming for those already sensitive to life. Again, there is no way of proving this, but it is one theory that you might like to ruminate on.

    So which theory are you more inclined to believe? Perhaps you’d like to combine a few of these explanations and discard the rest. 

    Regardless of what you choose, it’s vital here to stress that it’s important to give your spiritual emergency a purpose. As Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” 

    Are You Experiencing a Spiritual Emergency or Mental Illness?

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    Breakdowns precede breakthroughs.

    – Lee Lozowick

    You might be curious to know whether the spiritual emergency is actually just a fancy name for a psychotic break, manic-depressive episode, or other severe mental illness?

    This is a tough question to answer as there’s no black or white “yes” or “no.”

    Those who undergo spiritual emergencies are often committed to mental health wards – either forcibly or voluntarily. As author Catherine G. Lucas, founder of the UK Spiritual Crisis Network writes:

    There are literally thousands of people who have been through the mental health system who have not had the spiritual aspect of their experience honoured. The spiritual dimension has been completely overshadowed by the interpretation given to their experience by the medical model.

    These unfortunate individuals have been forcibly injected with high doses of medication, held against their will, shunned by their families, rejected by society, and labeled by the system as pathologically mentally ill.

    Although it can be argued that the mental health system (which is a fundamentally flawed institution) is only doing what it knows best, a psychiatric unit isn’t the safest place for a person who is undergoing a spiritual emergency. 

    Those who don’t end up committed usually buy into the pathologizing perspective of the mental health system – there simply aren’t many other alternatives. They may be diagnosed with a mental illness, instructed to take medication every day to keep their symptoms under check, and shooed away like a herd animal until their prescription expires – and the cycle continues.

    While I’m not trying to imply that it’s a good idea to get off your medication if you suspect you’ve undergone a spiritual emergency, it is good to be educated and have more options. Sometimes a small amount of medication is necessary to help prevent complete system shutdown – and that is a blessing the medical world offers us. But it’s not the only solution.

    Being ‘Diagnosed’ or Hospitalized During the Spiritual Emergency …

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    As Lucas writes in her book, the process of being tossed through the medical system can be severely traumatizing and actually prevent us from fulfilling the natural cycle of the spiritual emergency – and reaping its rewards:

    Overall, perhaps the greatest danger of ending up in a hospital, and certainly the saddest aspect, is that the opportunity for healing and growth, for living a fuller, richer, more awakened life, can be irretrievably lost. The natural process of renewal, as the psychiatrist John Weir Perry called it, can be totally thwarted. Both the trauma of hospitalisation and the over-use of medication can have this effect. And once the process has been stopped in its tracks it can be difficult, if not impossible, to retrieve.

    Furthermore, having our mystical experiences dismissed as being purely ‘psychotic,’ ‘borderline,’ or ‘schizophrenic’ not only denies the spiritual validity of what we’re going through but also adds an unnecessary element of fear and terror to the experience. This fear and terror can be profoundly crippling and can make the whole experience much more difficult than it really needs to be. 

    Thankfully, there are some in the medical field (typically Jungian and transpersonal therapists who focus on spiritual psychology) who understand the spiritual significance of symptoms that would otherwise be dismissed as “ramblings of a crazy mind.” I encourage you to seek these sorts of professionals out and ask them if they are familiar with the spiritual emergency. You can also visit the spiritual emergence network if you need to find someone close to you.

    Roger Walsh, an Australian professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology, is one such figure in the medical field who validates the spiritual emergency. He calls it the “developmental crisis”:

    Developmental crises are periods of psychological stress that accompany turning points in our lives. They may be marked by considerable psychological turmoil, sometimes even of life-threatening proportions. These transitions can occur spontaneously, as in adolescent and midlife crises, or can be induced by growth accelerating techniques such as psychotherapy and meditation. These crises occur because psychological growth rarely proceeds smoothly. Rather, growth is usually marked by periods of confusion and questioning or, in extreme cases, disorganization and despair.

    So is it a spiritual emergency or a psychosis?

    We need to understand that sometimes experiences can be both/and not either/or. In this situation, you may be experiencing both a spiritual emergency and some form of psychosis – but they shouldn’t be seen as two distinct things. 

    As Lucas writes, “… I am not interested in trying to distinguish between so-called psychosis and spiritual emergency. I take the view that it is all the psyche’s attempt to heal and move towards wholeness, that each experience is potentially spiritually transformative.”

    What you’re going through is valid and you need to seek out those who help you see your spiritual emergency through a positive lens, not a negative one. 

    Types of Spiritual Emergency 

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    There are two main types of spiritual emergency. They can be classified as:

    1. Mystical Psychosis (hallucinations, mania, etc.)
    2. The Dark Night of the Soul (depression)

    Historically, we can see Mystical Psychosis play out in figures such as St. Teresa of Avila, Vincent Van Gogh, Nietzsche, and Carl Jung. The Dark Night of the Soul, on the other hand, can be seen in figures such as St. John of the Cross, Eckhart Tolle, and Mother Teresa.

    The main difference between these two types of spiritual emergency seems to be the direction in which energy flows. 

    With Mystical Psychosis, the energy seems to flow upward and beyond into higher realms of Spirit or Consciousness. 

    On the other hand, with the Dark Night of the Soul, the energy seems to flow downwards and in – or into the realms of the Collective Unconscious and Soul. 

    It is possible to have a little bit of Mystical Psychosis paired with the Dark Night of the Soul (and vice versa). It’s even possible to have both equally. But most people tend to experience only one type of spiritual emergency.

    How to Cope With the Spiritual Emergency

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    There is a crack, a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in.

    – Leonard Cohen

    I write “cope” instead of “cure” because the spiritual emergency has a mind of its own. What we’re dealing with here is a force of nature, a Divine movement of energy that cannot be tampered with without adverse effects (such as those stuck in the mental health system carousel).

    There is no six-steps-to-happiness process here. I wish there was. I would so love to provide that for you. But that would be disingenuous and disrespectful to the process you’re going through. Perhaps what is most important to take away from this article is that your suffering has a purpose and your experiences are spiritually valid. If there’s anything you remember from this article, I hope it’s this. 

    While there is no formula for healing, as every journey is different, there are some practices you can try which have helped those on a similar path before you.

    Please take these forms of advice very slowly and stop at any time if you feel worse:

    1. Stop meditation, practice mindfulness instead

    Many people who undergo spiritual emergencies simply cannot tolerate meditation. Why? Meditation can be very dissociating if you’re not grounded strongly in your body. (And those undergoing Mystical Psychosis or the Dark Night struggle to keep their grip on this plane of existence!) Meditation can also open up doorways within the mind and encourage the influx of unconscious material. For a person already being bombarded with images and visions from the deep mind, this can be profoundly destabilizing. 

    During this difficult time, it’s better to practice mindfulness exercises. Mindfulness means consciously paying attention to the present moment. When we are mindful, we are fully engaged with our body and senses. Tuning into your sense of taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing can help to bring you back down to earth and your body.

    Try to practice mindfulness a little bit every day. Wash the dishes mindfully and feel the cold water against your hands. Hang up the clothes mindfully, and listen to the birds chirping outside. Eat mindfully and notice the different textures and flavors filling your mouth. You get the picture!

    2. Seek out earth energy

    Try to bring the energy of the earth into your daily life. As you may already know, the earth’s energy is deeply grounding and nourishing. If you need help anchoring yourself into this realm, go outside and dig in the soil. Get your arms elbow-deep in the dirt. Plant some seedlings in your backyard. Take care of a pot plant indoors. Sit underneath a tree and feel the ground underneath your feet. If need be, bring a heavy stone to bed so you can literally become grounded. Ecotherapy is a good avenue to explore.

    3. Temporarily stop your spiritual practice

    To some, this may sound drastic, but the spiritual emergency isn’t something to be trifled with. It’s important to understand that some types of spiritual practice can intensify Mystical Psychosis and the Dark Night of the Soul. In the interest of your sanity, it might be best to put your practice aside for a while and focus on mundane tasks. If you absolutely cannot do without some form of spiritual nourishment, try earth-centered approaches to spirituality, like spending time in nature. Ultimately, whether you follow this advice or not is up to you and your situation. But definitely consider the possibility that your spiritual practice might be detrimental to your wellbeing right now.

    4. Eat hearty food

    During the spiritual emergency, it’s tempting to ignore what we eat (simply because we’re too preoccupied or have no energy). But please, try your utmost to eat at least one hearty meal a day. When I say hearty, I mean the food needs to be grounded. Focus on root vegetables like sweet potatoes and beetroots, and organic free-range meat. If you’re vegetarian or vegan, you might consider temporarily changing your diet to include meat – desperate times call for desperate measures!

    5. Find the purpose in your suffering

    Examine again the five potential reasons why spiritual emergencies happen (see the beginning of the article). Why do you think you’re experiencing a spiritual emergency? Listen to your heart and let the answer emerge. You’ll know you’ve found the truth when you feel full-body shivers, a sense of peace and clarity, or a sudden “aha!” lightbulb moment. If you can’t find any satisfactory explanations mentioned in this article you may like to pray to the Universe/God/whatever to help you find the meaning. This prayer doesn’t have to be religious, it can be spiritual or secular. Simply communicate your intention, and notice any signs that arise in the next week.

    6. Exercise (even just for a few minutes)

    Depending on your situation, you may like a full-body catharsis (like high interval training) or a gentle activity like walking. Pay attention to your needs. Exercise is vital for mental health and general physical wellbeing. It also connects you with your body and the surrounding world, which is important during the spiritual emergency.

    7. Avoid stressful situations and reduce your responsibilities 

    Stress exacerbates any form of spiritual emergency – this is pretty obvious. Furthermore, holding onto many responsibilities tends to produce stress. If you have many projects or people needing your energy, it might be best to drop the vast majority of them. The spiritual emergency demands your energy and attention, and getting lost in workaholism is a recipe for disaster. So try to simplify what you can and give yourself some breathing space.

    8. Seek support

    Yes, in the midst of psychosis it might be necessary to be medicated and hospitalized (low doses of medication are generally better than high doses during spiritual emergencies – but I am not a medical professional, so please listen to your own common sense). But generally, if your experience doesn’t require 24/7 observation, it’s best to seek out a therapist or spiritual counselor who is familiar with the notion of spiritual emergencies.

    Above I recommended transpersonal, depth, and Jungian therapists (but please do your research and ask them if they know about spiritual emergencies). This is a great option, and you can visit the Spiritual Emergence Network to see if any are near you or just do a google search and include the name of your city. If worse comes to worst and you can’t find any within a reasonable distance, you can always try a religious chaplain, community mental health center, or online Skype sessions. You can also check out our Dark Night of the Soul Journal for gentle guidance.

    Why am I not recommending the support of friends or family members? The reasons why is because usually those close to us have no understanding of the spiritual emergency and tend to be negatively conditioned by medical institutions. In other words, it’s much more likely that they’ll get spooked by your experience (as they’re comparing it to the “old” you) and actually invalidate the experience rather than validate it. This is not a hard and fast rule, and some friends or family members are mature and may have gone through similar experiences. So try to use your gut instinct when making a decision, and above all, put your wellbeing first.

    Most importantly, do not let anyone try to convince you that what you’re going through is purely a product of mental illness or that your visions/insights are “irrelevant.” Denying the spiritual element of what you’re going through is monumentally short-sighted and detrimental to your wellbeing. You have the right to honor your experience and find meaning in it, as indeed it is meaningful.


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    Helpful Organizations

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    For further guidance, please check out the following resources:

    • Spiritual Emergence Network
    • Spiritual Crisis Network
    • Spiritual Emergence Resources

    These people and organizations are trained to help you get through the scary and overwhelming experience that is the spiritual emergency.

    The Spiritual Emergency is a Sacred Process

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    When all is said and done, this spiritual emergency may be terrifyingly life-altering, but it is a sacred process of clearing out the old and welcoming in the new. 

    While the medical world may pathologize you and the mundane world may reject you, you are not crazy. You are not alone. And your experiences do have profound spiritual meaning.

    Take care of yourself, dear soul. You are doing the best that you can, and you are so courageous for walking this path. Thank you for your unfathomable bravery.

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    1. Riley

      June 15, 2022 at 1:17 pm

      This was the breakthrough I needed. Thank you.

      Reply
    2. Mark

      February 17, 2022 at 10:36 am

      First, I’d like to say…thank you!! Your website is such a great resource, and you all are doing a wonderful service.

      This article was very enlightening, but I was left with a glaring question after I finished reading and thus felt the need to comment.

      How can we tell a spiritual emergency from a legitimate mental crisis. While I feel that the right questions are being asked, e.g., “Are You Experiencing a Spiritual Emergency or Mental Illness?” and “So is it a spiritual emergency or a psychosis?,” I am not sure how to interpret the answers.

      I understand that these questions are difficult to answer. When it comes to spirituality and mental illness, I imagine it would be quite difficult to speak in absolute/definitive terms. Certainly neither of these things are black and white. It also makes sense that a spiritual emergency and a psychotic episode do not need to be mutually exclusive.

      I was left wondering if there is anything at all to differentiate a mental illness from a spiritual emergency. Do you know of any signs that could indicate a severe mental health crisis that we should be aware of? Or is mental illness effectively synonymous with spiritual emergency?

      Thanks again,
      Mark

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    3. Diana A.

      February 05, 2022 at 8:12 pm

      Just A Thank you for your guidance Unconditionally speaking

      Reply
    4. lola

      January 31, 2022 at 11:06 am

      i feel like ive lost my soul and any sense of being. nothing makes sense to me. everything that they show us feels warped to me and i feel like i know whats going on behind the scenes but im not sure if i do. i think the world truly is dark and evil and profits off of it. but it is so interesting and i want to learn more

      Reply
    5. Clare

      January 28, 2022 at 5:31 pm

      Thank you so much for this article, I’m 3 weeks into such a deeply disturbing and distressing spiritual crisis/emergency and have no one to turn to or who will understand the experiences that brought me to this point. Knowing that it’s part of the spiritual awakening process/ dark night of soul (which I thought I’d been through already!) Gives me such hope and peace of mind in this moment. Thank you x

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      • Diana A.

        February 05, 2022 at 8:12 pm

        Hugs

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    6. Florence

      January 25, 2022 at 12:45 am

      Hi Luna and Sol,

      I started my spiritual emergency last year starting to see spirits in my house, becoming clairaudient and hearing guides. My gifts were so strong that at some point I could not differentiate reality from my clairs. It felt I was having hallucinations to a certain points. I had to leave my and ended but being hospitalized for psychosis. I have been working thank god with a mentor which is a witch and I stopped channelling and started to ground into the earth. I am still struggling being incredibly sensitive and taking on energy. I can’t hold a job. It has been a year. I know it is an initiation and that I was a shaman in my past lives but I find this incredibly difficult to cope with the normal 3D life. Do you have any tips for people who are exhausted and incredibly sensitive to energy? Thank you

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    7. Robbie

      January 15, 2022 at 12:35 am

      Hi, thank you for sharing this article as this gave me much more insight as to what I was experiencing a few months back. Unfortunately I was one of the people that they threw into the mental health system and now I’m stuck on antipsychotic medication for it. I’ve been looking for a holistic psychiatrist to see if they would be better help. I’m only 19 and I’ve only been in this medication for about 3 months. Do you think I’ll be able to restore this movement of energy when I’m off this medication and be able to process it better?

      Reply
      • Mateo Sol

        January 18, 2022 at 12:51 pm

        Hey Robbie, I’m sorry to hear that, sometimes medications are necessary depending on how bad our mental states are. They can provide us much needed stability to get our barings.

        How it affects you afterward probably has to do with the medication you’re taking, I’d recommend asking the specialist who prescribed it to see if there’s any know side effects after you stop.

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    8. AnaMaria

      December 23, 2021 at 10:49 pm

      Dear Luna

      Thank you soooo much for this post and your amazing journals – they helped me so many times during my crazy and painful journey that started at the beginning of February. You wrote about fifteen signs commonly experienced during spiritual emergencies – I had 14 of them (without believing that I’m Jesus or Buddha, but I met them both in my vivid dreams).

      Is my journey over yet? Every time I thought that, the Universe was giving me another kick just right in the middle of my poor ass, so I’ve already learned not to be sure about anything and not assume anything ;)

      After 13 years I lost a very good friend a few days after I had told her honestly what I was going through. Others started calling me the alien :D My family looked at me as if I was crazy and I heard several times that I should go to therapy…

      I didn’t give up and I continued my journey through the recesses of my body and mind on and on until I met my soul (???) beyond time and space.

      The hope that led me through my various bigger or smaller nightmares was the belief that everything that is happening to me has a higher purpose which I do not understand yet.

      After reading this phrase: “walker between worlds” my body went crazy – I started shaking, I had shivers all over my body, tears were streaming down – I couldn’t calm down for a long time. Yup, I was convinced that I was crazy for good :D

      During the last months I have visions (especially after drinking natural cocoa from South America or Africa) and my clairvoyance has increased significantly (at the beginning it was just a feeling in the body and now there are whole sentences and sometimes even pictures from other people’s lives).

      Could you please write something more about “walker between worlds”? I feel deep in my heart that it’s something very important to me, but I don’t understand why.

      Please help

      Warmest regards
      Anna

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      • Aletheia Luna

        January 13, 2022 at 2:23 pm

        Hi Anna, interesting that you reacted so strongly to the “walker between worlds” comment I made in this article. I suggest you look into psychopomps and the priestess or shaman archetype more, you might find a helpful path to follow there. ;) I’m so delighted that this post and our journals have helped you, that means a lot to me <3

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    9. Luzette

      November 15, 2021 at 8:01 pm

      I started experiencing this a few years ago, while already stuck in a horrible life situation. It’s so bad that I didn’t get far with the suggestions for coping. I can’t practice mindfulness because I’m under constant stress. I can’t eat healthy foods because the person I live with controls my diet. I can’t go outside either, he watches and criticizes everything I do. He has abused me my whole life and I still can’t get away from him.
      As for reaching out for support, I’ve tried everything to no avail. I have no one, live in poverty, and have multiple mental and physical health problems. Been in and out of hospitals and doctor’s offices for years. I’ve tried various social services and government agencies. Everyone I know, including my therapist, is also struggling and unavailable to me. I can’t afford any alternatives.
      I have prayed and begged for help so many times. I’ve been crying for two days straight because I tried, yet again, to search for help and got nowhere. I can’t even begin to describe how painful this has been. I have no clue how I’ve survived like this for so long, let alone why.

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      • Aletheia Luna

        December 17, 2021 at 2:47 pm

        I’m so sorry to hear that you’re suffering and are struggling to find help, Luzette. May I ask why the person you live with controls your diet and a little more about your situation? Perhaps then I can guide you toward someone or something I think may help. Sending love your way ♡

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        • Luzette

          December 22, 2021 at 3:00 pm

          Thank you, Luna and I’m sorry for rambling when I was upset. My situation is basically, I spent most of my life isolated and afraid of people due to severe childhood trauma. I depended on my mom until she died, then got stuck living with my abusive stepdad.
          I’ve been trying really hard to become independent, without much luck. For example, where we live you can’t do anything without a vehicle. Eventually I was able to buy a car, only to have a tree fall on it not long after. My stepdad won’t let me drive his, so he handles all errands, including groceries.
          He’s a classic narcissist: gets angry at me all the time, blames me for his problems, doesn’t respect my privacy or boundaries and so on. We used to get into constant, terrible conflicts until I became too numb and exhausted from dealing with him.
          Your website has already helped and taught me a lot. So I really appreciate the offer, if you think of something that might help.

          Reply
    10. Ariana

      November 12, 2021 at 7:20 pm

      Dear Luna, thank you for the wonderful, grounded, and most encouraging article. <3 :-)

      Reply
      • Aletheia Luna

        December 17, 2021 at 2:45 pm

        Thank you for your lovely comment Ariana ♡

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    11. Leif Fastén

      July 28, 2021 at 2:15 am

      Det ömsom sköns och ömsom döljs. Och alla dom här sjukdoms-symtomen. Något nytt varje dag.

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    12. Morgann O'Neill

      April 28, 2021 at 9:23 pm

      Hi Luna -after all these years only just come across the concept of Spiritual emergence/emergency from a like minded person on Facebook. I had a ‘breakdown’ or breakthrough years ago daignosed by psychiatrists as psychosis and diagnosed later as Schizophrenia -put on medication. I had some years before the breakdown been doing kundalina meditaion and then sometime after my Mother passed over. -Anyway look -I would love to buy the books recommended on this page but I am in the Uk and need to pay in GBP -any suggestions. Thanks so so much -finally finding pieces to the puzzle. Love and Light, Morgann O’Neill xxx

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      • Aletheia Luna

        July 09, 2021 at 11:12 am

        Hey Morgann, thanks for sharing your experience. Yes, you’ve gotta be careful with things like kundalini meditation. I don’t go near it at all as I prefer the slower and more gentle approaches. I hope you’ve found more of a sense of inner stability now. Regarding the GBP, are you referring to the books and journals available in our store? There is a price conversion underneath each product when you click on which one you’d like. I hope that helps ♡ Very best wishes to you

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    13. Shelly

      April 20, 2021 at 8:31 pm

      Thank you Luna. I look forward to what is to come. and yes more than anything, I remember that my suffering has a purpose and my experiences are spiritually valid. I will take from your wisdom and hopefully transcend.

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      • Aletheia Luna

        July 09, 2021 at 11:12 am

        ♡

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