In Case of Spiritual Emergency by Catherine G. Lucas

ISBN: 978-1-84409-546-9
Moving Successfully through Your Awakening, 192 pages paperback

“I found myself travelling back to the UK from Egypt in a wheelchair. What I had been through was so extreme, so overwhelming emotionally, psychologically and spiritually, that my body had gone into shock.”

Encouraging, supportive, and life-saving, this book is essential for avoiding the mental, emotional, or spiritual paralysis or exhaustion that can result from underestimating the current age of increased individual and global emergencies.

When spiritual emergencies, such as mystical psychosis and dark nights of the soul, are understood, managed, and integrated, they can offer enormous potential for growth and fulfillment, and this book offers three key phases for successful navigation. Personal stories of spiritual crises are presented alongside practical and effective guidance in this exploration of a fascinating phenomenon.

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Catherine G. Lucas

Catherine G Lucas is the Founder of the UK Spiritual Crisis Network (SCN). She is also an accredited Breathworks Mindfulness Trainer, delivering courses to mental health professionals and individuals. Clients have included the National Health Service (NHS) and the Ministry of Defence, working with soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Catherine is an Expert by Experience in spiritual emergency and has created a unique Mindfulness-Based Approach to Spiritual Emergency. Between 2004 and 2007, she designed and delivered three international conferences on spiritual emergency and she has also featured on a BBC Radio 4 program on the subject.

For More Info, see Catherine's Author Page

She regularly speaks and runs workshops at conferences. Recent events have included Keynote Speaker at a conference on Mindfulness in Mental Health Care, organized by the Spiritual Care Team of Sandwell Mental Health and Social Care Foundation Trust. Catherine has published various articles, including in Positive News and Caduceus (‘When Spiritual Emergence Becomes an Emergency’ in Issue 68) and a chapter in the book Past Lives - Present Healing edited by Deborah Monshin.

At first sight, this book seems just another description of how one can be overwhelmed by an emotional or psychological crisis and, in recognising it as a potentially life-changing spiritual experience, grow through it to emerge wiser and richer. This remarkable book, however, is the work of an author who affords readers glimpses of her own deep wounds, and shows how she navigated through her crisis by seeking and using insights derived from branches of modern psychology and ancient mystical wisdom. She also refers to others’ journeys through, what she terms, their “spiritual emergency”.
— Revd Jenny Francis, psychotherapist, Church Times, read the full review here

The strength of this book lies in the willingness of its author to share her own experiences as well as draw on those of others to give the reader a real taste of what spiritual emergency is – in all its many wonders and occasional horrors.
— William West, reader in counselling at University of Manchester, Therapy Today Journal, read the full review here

I have found this book extremely helpful in my practice. The information is gathered and relayed in a clear, precise and comprehendible manner. The suggested methods can be put into practice and the book itself can be used for reference by both clients and practitioners.
— Frida Siton, Spirit Release Forum Network read the full review here

The following is a talk given by Catherine at the conference 'Spiritual Care & Mental Health' organized by Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London on 17 May 2011

"This book is going to be very helpful to many people." — Dr Andrew Powell, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Special Interest Group on Spirituality

"The phenomenon of Spiritual Emergency is growing - but hugely misunderstood by the public and health professionals alike. Hence why books such as Catherine's are desperately needed." — Hazel Courteney, journalist and author

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