Spaces

Welcome to EmergeWiki Spaces. This guide through Spaces is intended to support different contributors in expanding and refining the EmergeWiki page dedicated to emergent phenomenology, experiences, and effects (EPEEs) and its relationship to mental health.

Emergent phenomenology encompasses a range of mental and somatic experiences often described as spiritual, mystical, energetic, psychedelic, or magical in nature. These experiences can result in transformative outcomes, profound personal insights, and significant life changes, while sometimes challenging conventional frameworks for understanding mental health.

In the case of EmergeWiki, the goal is to understand and work with and across the various cultural understandings of how we know things to promote therapeutic alliances and improved outcomes. In this case, the specific goal is to help everyone relating to Emergent Phenomena to have information presented in a style and language and based on evidence that they will find informative and to understand the source of that knowledge so that they can filter that through their own Epistemology. This is the reason why EmergeWiki Spaces are divided into following categories, with each Space having its own Submission Guide.

Non-Encyclopaedic Spaces

Information

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Work

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Encyclopaedic Spaces

Traditions

This page aims to document Emergent Phenomena (EP) comprehensively, integrating both emic (insider) and etic (outsider) perspectives. It serves as a platform for traditions and cultural practices to represent themselves while also providing an analytical framework for understanding these experiences from broader, cross-cultural perspectives.

For instance, contributions might explain how specific traditions view certain EP as normative or functional within their cultural or spiritual frameworks. This includes definitions of acceptable and concerning phenomena as well as corresponding interventions. A section on Catholicism, for example, could discuss experiences such as visions, demonic possession, or states of grace, contextualizing these within Catholic mysticism. Similarly, contributions from indigenous or shamanic traditions could describe EP as manifestations of energetic imbalances or spiritual connections, detailing the traditional practices used to interpret and engage with these phenomena.

Organisations in world religions are invited to present their view of emergence/mystical experience, basically what EPEEs are normal, which are not, what to do about these, how they would like these handled by the clinical mainstream, allowed in their own language, with their own ontologies and epistemics and cultural overlay. Eg. Catholics, Pentecostal, Sufi, Shi’a, Buddhist etc. Moderation guidelines are relaxed, with an emphasis on autonomy in presentation and language used.

Sections of EmergeWiki that are specifically about the details of traditions that maintain aspects of Ontological Certainty may and should be presented as such, with their full internal arguments, worldviews, ontologies, and certainties being made clear, to help facilitate a respectful and authentic representation of these traditions.

List of contributors: Traditional and contemporary teachers and practitioners, and scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines, as well as non-academic/non-clinical/non-traditional people with useful knowledge and expertise to share, clergy, chaplains, and people who hold multiple perspectives across these who can help bridge these diverse perspectives.

Emic Perspectives

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Etic Perspectives

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Scientific Synthesis

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Clinical Layer

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