What is Spiritual Emergence?
Spiritual emergence has been defined as “the movement of an individual to a more expanded way of being that involves enhanced emotional and psychosomatic health, greater freedom of personal choices, and a sense of deeper connection with other people, nature, and the cosmos. An important part of this development is an increasing awareness of the spiritual dimension in one’s life and in the universal scheme of things.” (Grof & Grof, 1990)
When spiritual emergence is very rapid and dramatic, this natural process can become a crisis, and spiritual emergence becomes spiritual emergency. This has also been called transpersonal crisis, acute psychosis with a positive outcome, an undoing of the ego and extreme states in awareness.
Christina and Stanislav Grof state from their book The Stormy Search for the Self “spiritual emergencies could also be defined as critical and difficult stages of a profound psychological transformation that involves one’s entire being. These are crisis points within the transformational process of spiritual emergence and awakening”
It is possible to undergo a profound crisis involving non-ordinary or psychic experiences, and to see it as pathological or psychiatric when in fact it may be more accurately and beneficially described as a spiritual emergency.
Plant Medicine Integration
Have you been on a journey with ayahuasca, psilocybin, bufo toad or DMT?
Are you still spinning out? Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you feel like you’re in an extreme or altered state of consciousness?
You could be in a spiritual emergence or major rite of passage and are being UP-Levelled to a higher frequency between the old you, and the 5D that can be very disorientating.
I’m Jaya Jones. Soul Purpose Mentor and Kundalini Yoga Teacher. I’m here to help you integrate your plant medicine journey.
I’m trained as a Spiritual Emergence Coach and I have a 30 year background in social work and counselling.