What a shaman sees in a mental hospital.

What we in the West call "mental illness" is in fact a spiritual emergency, as all shamans realize.

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/cienciareal/esp_chaman_48.htm

More research :

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_secretgov_20.htm

Psychospiritual Crisis / Spiritual Emergence

Proponents of transpersonal psychotherapy, like one of its founders Prof. Stanislav Grof suggest that 'spiritual emergence' experiences are often misdiagnosed as psychosis and medicated unnecessarily.

 

Grof sites 11 different types of spiritual emergencies, including,

• the classic initiatory experience of the shaman

• unitive experiences of oceanic oneness

• kundalini awakening

• the crisis of psychic opening

• the messianic experience common within what John Weir Perry called the 'renewal process'.