In this psychedelic café, we explore spiritual awakening and spiritual crisis; what they are, and what causes them.

We also explore how we heal from spiritual crisis; their connection to trauma; the spiritual roots of healing bipolar; differentiating spiritual crisis from clinical psychiatric illness; the anti-theistic paradigm of psychiatry; personal crisis in the context of global climate crisis; and having a force larger than oneself un-make and remake our lives.

Our guests are:

• Anna Lutkajtis
• Dayle Mcleod
• Benjamin Mudge
• Michelle Anne Hobart
• Kyle Buller
• Dr. Nicole Gruel

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..... Episode Breakdown

• Spiritual crisis as a way of discovering who we really are
• What makes spiritual awakening a crisis and how do we learn from them
• Spontaneous transformations of worldview
• Being dazzled by truth
• Living in a secular society increases the likelihood of spiritual crisis
• Where is the line between psychosis and spiritual crisis
• True spirituality is about love
• What does it mean to have a spiritual crisis?
• Bipolar, schizophrenia, and being unable to resolve a spiritual crisis
• The efficacy of psychiatric drugs in treating bipolar
• The role of the body in resolving spiritual crisis
• The importance of social context in spiritual crisis
• Spiritual crisis as a call to your ancestral lineage
• Preparing the cultural grounds for psilocybin introduction into the medical system
• The paradigm of psychiatry is anti-theistic
• The importance of including indigenous voices
• We are in a global spiritual crisis
• Trauma's role in spiritual crisis
• How we ground through spiritual crisis experiences
• We need to upgrade our language around religious experiences
• Should we be trying to feel better?