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[[Category:Transpersonal psychology]]
The notion of Spiritual Emergency refers to critical forms of spiritual emergence — they are also called "transformational crises".<ref>Grof, S., & Grof, C. (Eds.). (1989). ''Spiritual emergency: when personal transformation becomes a crisis'' (1st ed). Tarcher ; Distributed by St. Martin’s Press, pp. 13 et seq ; Grof, C., & Grof, S. (1995). ''The stormy search for the self: understanding and living with spiritual emergency''. Thorsons, chap. 4. </ref> There is some overlap with the [[Categories of non-ordinary states of consciousness]], however the spiritual emergencies are not reducible to these. Spiritual emergencies listed by the Grofs include:
* The Shamanic Crisis 
* The Awakening of Kundalini 
* Episodes of Unitive Consciousness ("peak experiences") 
* Psychological Renewal through Return to the Center 
* The Crisis of Psychic Opening 
* Past-life Experiences Communications with Spirit Guides and "Channeling" 
* Near-Death Experiences 
* Experience of Close Encounters with UFOs 
* Possession States

== Resources ==

# Bragdon, E. (1990). ''The call of spiritual emergency: from personal crisis to personal transformation'' (1st ed). Harper & Row.
# Evans, J., & Read, T. (Eds.). (2020). ''Breaking open: finding a way through spiritual emergency''. Aeon.
# Goretzki, M. (2007). ''The Differentiation of Psychosis and Spiritual Emergency'' [Dissertation, The University of Adelaide]. <nowiki>https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/47986/8/02whole.pdf</nowiki>
# Goretzki, M., & Thalbourne, M. A. (2013). Development Of A Spiritual Emergency Scale. ''Journal of Transpersonal Psychology'', ''45''(2), 105–117. atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-45-13-02-105.pdf
# Grof, C., & Grof, S. (1995). ''The stormy search for the self: understanding and living with spiritual emergency''. Thorsons.
# Grof, S., & Grof, C. (Eds.). (1989). ''Spiritual emergency: when personal transformation becomes a crisis'' (1st ed). Tarcher ; Distributed by St. Martin’s Press.
# Harris, K. P., Rock, A. J., & Clark, G. I. (2015). Spiritual Emergency, Psychosis And Personality: A Quantitative Investigation. ''Journal of Transpersonal Psychology'', ''47''(2), 263–285. <nowiki>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301731515_Spiritual_emergency_psychosis_and_personality_A_quantitative_investigation</nowiki>
# Harris, K. P., Rock, A. J., & Clark, G. I. (2019). Religious Or Spiritual Problem? The Clinical Relevance Of Identifying And Measuring Spiritual Emergency. ''Journal of Transpersonal Psychology'', ''51''(1), 89–118. <nowiki>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337782225_Religious_or_spiritual_problem_The_clinical_relevance_of_identifying_and_measuring_spiritual_emergency</nowiki>
# Harris, K. P., Rock, A. J., & Clark, G. I. (2020). Deﬁning Spiritual Emergency: A Content Validity Study. ''Journal of Transpersonal Psychology'', ''52''(1), 113–141. <nowiki>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348647627_Defining_Spiritual_Emergency_A_Content_Validity_Study</nowiki>
# Kaselionyte, J., & Gumley, A. (2019). Psychosis or spiritual emergency? A Foucauldian discourse analysis of case reports of extreme mental states in the context of meditation. ''Transcultural Psychiatry'', ''56''(5), 1094–1115. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461519861842</nowiki>
# Kogo, Y. (2002). Aum Shinrikyo and Spiritual Emergency. ''Journal of Humanistic Psychology'', ''42''(4), 82–101. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/002216702237125</nowiki>
# Lukoff, D., Lu, F., & Turner, R. (1998). From Spiritual Emergency to Spiritual Problem: the Transpersonal Roots of the New DSM-IV Category. ''Journal of Humanistic Psychology'', ''38''(2), 21–50. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678980382003</nowiki>
# Perry, J. W. (1999). ''Trials of the visionary mind: spiritual emergency and the renewal process''. State University of New York Press.
# Sedláková, H., & Řiháček, T. (2019). The Incorporation of a Spiritual Emergency Experience Into a Client’s Worldview: A Grounded Theory. ''Journal of Humanistic Psychology'', ''59''(6), 877–897. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167816668114</nowiki>
# St. Arnaud, K. O., & Cormier, D. C. (2017). Psychosis or Spiritual Emergency: The Potential of Developmental Psychopathology for Differential Diagnosis. ''International Journal of Transpersonal Studies'', ''36''(2), 44–59. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2017.36.2.44</nowiki>
# Storm, L., & Goretzki, M. (2016). A Defense Of The Spiritual Emergency Scale: Emergency Vs. Emergence. ''Journal of Transpersonal Psychology'', ''48''(2), 190–209. Journal of Transpersonal Psychiatry Archive.

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