A Collection of Services, Readings, and Podcasts for Psychospiritual Development and Support
Psychedelic Integration Resources:
Groups and providers for Psychedelic Integration:
- ERIE (SF Bay Area): https://www.erievision.org/
- The Integration Circle (SF Bay Area): http://www.theintegrationcircle.org/
- https://psychedelic.support/
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Books:
- Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth by Francoise Bourzat and Kristina Hunter
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Antiracism and Decolonization Resources for white folks:
- White Awake (Training on the intersection of ancestry and activism for people of European descent): https://whiteawake.org/
- Native Wellness Institute's training on Being an Ally in Indian Country (for those who support Native folks): https://www.nativewellness.com/
- Stronghold ( Consultation and trainings around racial justice): https://www.wearestronghold.org/
- Films and training by master diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah
- Showing Up for Racial Justice: https://www.surjbayarea.org/
- Coming to the Table: Organization where descendants of slaves and slave owners come together for truth-telling
- Best of Enemies: Hollywood adaptation of true story of civil rights activist and Klan leader coming together
- Understanding White Privilege: http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/modern/WhitePrivilege-MalePrivilege.html
- Understanding white Fragility: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/249/116
- Racial Microaggressions: https://world-trust.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/7-Racial-Microagressions-in-Everyday-Life.pdf
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Soul Initiation and Rites of Passage:
Readings:
- Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin
- Of Water and the Spirit by Malidoma Somé
- The Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Somé
- Day Breaks over Dharamsala (memoir about spiritual healing after ritual abuse)
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Interdimensional/ Parapsychology Resources:
- Books by Kewaunee Lapseritis about the Psychic Sasquatch
- Books by John E. Mack, Budd Hopkins, and Whitley Strieber about E.T. contact
- Books by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke on Native American abduction and contact experiences
- Books by Barbara Stone about star civilizations and healing past-life trauma
- A Language Older than Words by Derrick Jensen (Memoir about interspecies communication)
- Animal Speak by Penelope Smith (About animal communication)
- Documentary on Animal Communication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQehXoCipts&t=773s
- Love and Saucers, The story and art of ET abductee David Huggins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPIEPvLhDc0
- Inviting E.T. by Sue Walker and Rev. White Otter (About CE5 events)
- Joan Ocean (Whales and Dolphins as interdimensional beings): https://www.joanocean.com/
- Ancestral Medicine: Trainings, podcast, and a book about animism, connecting with the spirits of the dead, and lineage healing: https://ancestralmedicine.org/
- Opus Network: Offers support and education to paranormal experiencers (including therapist referrals and support groups)
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Spiritual Emergence/ Emergency:
- Crazywise: Documentary on reframing psychosis as spiritual emergence and about necessary support
- What is Spiritual Emergence/ Emergency: http://realitysandwich.com/1800/spiritual_emergencies/
- Directory of mental health practitioners trained to work with spiritual emergence:
https://imhu.org/coaching/directory/
- The Spiritual Emergence Network (A comprehensive site including resources, support groups, and a directory):
http://www.spiritualemergence.org/
- Madness radio ("Personal experiences of ‘madness’ and extreme states of consciousness from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments"): https://www.madnessradio.net/
- What a shaman sees in a mental hospital (an article with excerpts from Malidoma Somé): https://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/08/22/shaman-sees-mental-hospital/
- The Hearing Voices Network and The Icarus Project both offer education, resources, and groups for people experiencing nonordinary sensory phenomenon that is often diagnosed as mental illness :
http://www.hearing-voices.org/
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Nondual Meditation Resources:
Readings:
- Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
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Organizations and Centers:
- Vipassana meditation: https://www.dhamma.org/en/about/vipassana
- Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Bay Area center for insight meditation): https://www.spiritrock.org/
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Sexuality:
- Somatic Sex Education (training for sexology providers): https://somaticsexeducator.com/
- Directory of practitioners who offer hands-on somatic sexology, internal pelvic work, and sex education: https://somaticsexeducators.com/members/
- The Human Awareness Institute (Workshops on Love, intimacy, and sexuality):https://www1.hai.org/
- Organic Sexuality Podcast: https://somaticsexualwholeness.com/podcast/
- The Wheel of Consent by Betty Martin
- Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown
Neurodiversity:
- http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/
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Chronic Illness Resources:
- This is not what I Ordered (Inspiring podcast about living with chronic illness): https://laurenselfridge.com/listen
- Chronic illness, Sexuality, and Kambo: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/starseed-survival-guide/e/57253264
- Sex and chronic Illness/ disability: https://www.chronicsex.org/
- Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities , and Chronic Environmental Illness by Dr. Neil Nathan MD
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Other Great Resources:
What to do if someone is having a mental health crisis in the street?
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An Introduction to Inter-generational Trauma: