Treatment: Types of Spiritual Emergency
PHYSIC OPENING
Psychic opening is a state in which an individual experiences a large number of occurrences that he or she considers paranormal. These might include clairvoyance (visions of past, future or remote events) out-of-the-body experiences, telepathy, or poltergiest phenomena. Synchronistic events are often a feature of this type of crisis. Charles T. T art has described how people can become quite fearful upon the awakening of their intuitive powers.
Resources on Psychic Opening
Hastings, A. (1983). A counseling approach to parapsycholgical experience.
Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 15(2): 143-167.
Parapsychological Association
This professional organization promotes scholarly and scientific investigation of paranormal experience.
About.com Guide to Paranormal Phenomena
Has links to many online resources
Channeling
Channeling refers to the experience of receiving communications from the spirits or from some other dimension or from some beings or entities, and such experiences can occur as part of psychic experiences.
What is Channeling?
with Arthur Hastings, PhD
About.com Channeling: An Introduction
The Art of Channeling
20 pg. Article, including the following topics: A Definition Of Channeling, Shamanism And Native American Culture, Different Methods Of Channeling, Visits And Meetings With Spiritual Teachers, Learning The Ropes, etc.) |
