Breaking Open (2020)

Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency is a collection of first-person accounts of spiritual emergencies, what they’re like, and what helps people through them.

Spiritual emergencies are moments of spiritual awakening which are often messy, scary and sometimes quasi-psychotic. They can be very frightening for the person experiencing them, and their loved ones, and can be mistreated by psychiatrists, but with proper care they can be guided to positive outcomes.

You can get it at Waterstones, Amazon UK, Amazon US, from the publisher Aeon, and elsewhere.

Here are videos of talks by some of our authors.

To find out more about what to do in a spiritual emergency, go here.

Here’s a conversation between me and contributor Sean Blackwell: