The healing of schizophrenia as 'soul in crisis'
Click Here for Lama Yeshe presenting a Buddhist perspective on "mental illness" (as of Dec 2006)
More on Buddhism and psychology - click
{That link now seems defunct ... pity ... it was a great page ... so here's something else you might like 2 read ... Your Recovery Process}
Writings - includes
Journey to Wholeness: the Bipolar Road to Freedom
1st Person website
Some stuff from the 1999 ERMHA writing group
Fabulous article by Les Mitchell about Spirituality & healing in mental health services {added June 2002}
Successful Schizophrenia website
This site has a large collection of poetry & first hand accounts of experiences of mental illness
(plus some interestin linx) {added May 17, 2002}
This website aims to contact psychiatric survivors who are "weller than well," people who achieved successful schizophrenia, who had a breakthrough, not a breakdown, who were transformed to a better level.
Joseph Campbell's view on the experience of schizophrenia
Worst Things to Say to Someone Who Is Depressed
Here's a link back to their main page ... "when the sadness just won't stop"
Mary Ellen Copeland's site ... there was a great atricle by Mary in the
May 2002 edition of 'SHINE' called
Supporting a person in crisis
Very extensive list of alternative therapies for depression - including Yoga,
breathing, acupuncture, exercise, diet ...
That site came from this search of the web - in fact it topped the list
Here's another little search I did around similar themes ...
And another one for good measure
{All added June/July 2002}
you name it :)
Here's another search, seeing as how I've been looking at mantras & chanting lately ... click here
The Healing Breath by Ravi Shankar is also a useful technique - it MUST be - I saw it on the telly once :)
R U Depressed? {July 12, 2002}
Interesting guestbook has some sites listed ...
Instead Laugh - articles are specifically written for you if you are struggling with suicidal urges, while depressed and anxious {added July 26th, 2002}
Tools for a happier life {yes, okay, your initial reaction might be to say 'what kind of drugs are THESE guys on' ... but why not check it out anyway ...} {July 29, 2002}
{Includes the very helpful page called 'How to be be unhappy anytime you want'
The creator of that page says "I know if you've been depressed for a long time this can look like I'm making light of what you're going through. What I'm really doing is showing you another pathway out of the darkness. I don't just offer platitudes. I offer specific instructions that when followed create a very different experience ..."
Note: the
VICSERV links page is worth a gander, though I have submitted many of these linx to them and they have been included ...
}
Schizophrenia & Shamanism
or
click here
Without Mask - Tracey May's site which shares a unique and insightful personal experience as a sufferer of schizophrenia that will give hope to those in despair.
The Esalen Centre - founded in 1962 by Richard Price who had a strong personal commitment to finding ways to deal with psychosis that were more humane than the prevalent practices of institutionalization, medication, and electroshock. Many excellent articles and perspectives on transformative practices.
The Hole in my Head has Gone {Added Jan 2002}
Mental Illness and the Winding Road to Recovery - A Student's Perspective {Added Jan 2002}
Survivors Art Foundation {Added Jan 2002}
Includes some excellent
comics etc
Some 'Outsider Art' links {Added Feb 2002}
Note: the Paul Laffoley link seems defunct, so why not click here ...
"A Dream for One World" by Segev Perets
'The Game of Life' by Florence Scovel Shinn
Fabulous paintings of dolphins & whales by Christian Reese Lassen
The visionary art of Alex Grey
... ALL added in early 2002 ...
Plus ... A Shaman's View of Schizophrenia & Acute Sensitivity {March 10, 2002}
Schizophrenia Help - also some excellent artciles
Gaining control of the new awareness
Excerpts from The Troubled Mind
- Updated
{Or ... click here}
Psychotherapy, Meditation & Spirituality
SHINE Consumers Realm April 2001
Excellent article on spirituality & mental health by Les Mitchell, Consumer Advisor in New Zealand
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
Excerpts from An Unquiet Mind
Allan Pinches site - many articles about "mental illness" and recovery and support workers etc.
For example -
Spirituality & Mental Illness
Mystical experience and schizophrenia
Excerpts from New Paradigm June 2000
Dreams from Nov 1999 New Paradigm - 'To dance as if no one is watching'
Gaining control of the new awareness
From Hopelessness to Hopefulness
VICSERV - has many resources & links to very interesting sites
Such as the National Empowerment Centre - has an excellent article 'People CAN recover from mental illness'
Alternative views on the experience of schizophrenia
Thomas Hora - Metapsychiatry
Schizophrenia & channeling cosmic entities
Spirituality & mental health are linked ...
The Relationship Between Schizophrenia & Mysticism
Recovery By Discovery -
has excellent tips and yes, a load of links ....
The Experience of Schizophrenia
Ian Chovil's website aims to give a more optimistic view of schizophrenia as he relates his recovery over the past 20 years or so.
VISIONARY EXPERIENCE OR PSYCHOSIS
Truth, Schizophrenia and the Mystical Self
Temporary Insanity
Sacred Transformations - personal stories of recovery or transformation
In The Arms of Madness is part of the "Beyond Madness" webring
... includes '10 things you never say to a depressed person'
"The Human Evasion" - an analysis of sanity by
Celia Green
The Value of Psychotic Experience
Click here for some anti-psychiatry links
Geoff's website - has tons of interesting stuff. Fun for the entire family! Like excerpts from New Paradigm and various books and poems and links to some faskinating sites. Well worth a visit.
Celestine Vision website
Science, Consciousness and God {or click here}
Let's visit a Random site about Buddhism
Unity consciousness
Bruce Moen & Afterlife Knowledge
Click here for some wisdom from the 14th Dalai Lama
The Madman at Poetry Shack site
www.melvinmorse.com - NDE & kids
URouLette - a 'random' URL generator
Doctor Fun Archive - has been compared with "The Far Side" cartoons.
Update Aug 30 -
Sleeeping, Dreaming & Dying - An exploration of consciousness with the Dalai Lama
Interesting religious studies course
Definition of Unconditional Love
The Secrets of Heaven and Hell
Update Sept 3 -
other kundalini resources
"The Human Evasion" by Celia Green
The Experience of Life is but a game
"How to Know God" website - click here
Meaning of Life (according to Osho)
Gary Zukav - author of Seat of the Soul etc.
Weirdness on the web - always remembering the very word 'weird' is a label and is relative and comparative and its use (or non-use) reflects where the user is coming from ...
E.g. Human spontaneous involuntary invisibilty
& Quintessence of the loon & many others ...
Click here also
"Relaxing into clear seeing" excerpts
Absolute Perfection is Here and Now
Mantra meditation & Self-realisation
Update Sept 11 -
Excerpts from A Path With heart
Still crazy after all these years
Huge list of resources
{also http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/callanish/39/osho2.htm}
click here for the text of The Way To The Light
Excerpts from books by Richard Bach
Living Meditation - Dr Thynn Thynn
Excerpts from The Path of Action by Jack Schwarz
The Dark Night of the Soul and the Mystic Way
Stupid pet photos - click here
Book reviews about Tibetan Buddhism
Free Stuff & Fun Stuff - includes the story of Rufus Ridiculous
Tonglen practice - 'Treat everything you perceive as a dream' - includes commentaries on the 'practice' ...
Excerpts from the works of Deepak Chopra
The Ability Trek and Australian Dream Trust
Question of the day - Sept 20, 2000 was an interesting question about whether 'all events are neutral' and the ways we react ...
More to come ...
Yes, cells do remember - this site also has an interview with James Twyman ...
Jason's quotes - seem awfully like the ones at creative growth site?? ... interesting search results for 'jason quotes' - click here
Insights from The Celestine Prophecy
October 30 update -
How to have more contact with spirit beings
ET101: The cosmic instruction manual for planetary evolution
Native Wisdom for white minds - includes some great links ...
http://godsimmediatecontact.tripod.com/himalaya-master.html
Gratitude Journal - one of many results from a search engine ...
Syntropy - an interesting online book about merging science and religion - the links page is also extensive -
e.g.
Reluctant Messenger and "Reality Shifters' & 'Weird Science' ... etc ... plus 'A Fractal Theory of the Origin and Meaning of the Universe' ...
{Links saved as www.angelfire.com/wv/geoall/syntrop4.htm}
Speaking of fractals ... click here ...
This site has some great meditations
Interesting article - Is a car alive?
List of authors and books about life & death & everything in between - click
The ten warning signs of normality
November 2000 - some more sites of interest ...
This file location is www.angelfire.com/wv/geoall/mental4.htm - and if you are accessing the copy on the hard drive at Suzanne St, it may be out-of-date ...
click here for latest version ...
* "Peace Of Mind" by Ian Gawler
* "Healing and the mind" by Bill Moyers
* "In Six Days" by John Ashton
* "My Life after dying" by
... then still
deoxy &
wisdompubs and top ten
(click here)
...
Not to menation John Gribbin, John Horgan, Michael Rees, Paul Davies, Fritjof Capra, Thor Heyerdahl, sites, hrpub ... Richard Bach ...
... Anne Wilson Schaef, Caroline Myss ... Tao of Pooh ...
... Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, Rupert Sheldrake, Allen Ginsberg, Lama Yeshe, Surya Das, Thich Nhat Hanh ... Jack Kornfield, Alan Cohen, Sharon Salzberg, Sylvia Boorstein, Jon Kabat-Zinn,
* "The Wealth Within" by Ainslie Meares
* "Conversations With God" by Neale Donald Walsch
* "The Seat of the Soul" by Gary Zukav"
* "Soul Stories" by Gary Zukav
* "Journey Into Healing" by Deepak Chopra
* "How To Know God" by Deepak Chopra
* "Ultimate Journey" by Robert Monroe
* "The Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama
* "For those who can't believe" by Harold Schulweis
* "Who Are You?" by Chris Butler
* "Mister God, this is Anna" by Fynn
* "Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying" by the Dalai Lama - an exploration of consciousness
* "The Odd Brain" by Stephen Juan
* "An Unquiet Mind" by Kay Jamison
* "Flying Without Wings" by Arnold Beisser
* "The Cosmic Game - explorations in the frontiers of human consciousness" by Stanislav Grof
* "The Visionary Human" by Nevill Drury
* "Beyond Death: the gates of consciousness" by Stanislav Grof
* "The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying" by Sogyal Rinpoche
* "Doctor ahead of his time - the life of Ainslie Meares"
* "Everyday Immortality" by Deepak Chopra
* "A Guide for the advanced soul" by Susan Hayward
* "Inner revolution: life, liberty & the pursuit of real happiness" by Robert Thurman
* "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by Robert Pirsig
* "Gratitude: A way of life" by Louise Hay
* "Behold The spirit" by Alan Watts
* "The divided self" by R.D. Laing (a study of sanity & madness)
* "A wholly different way of living" by J. Krishnamurti
* "Nightmares that sing" by Marjorie Messenger (a story of paranoid schizophrenia)
* "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" by Walter Evans-Wentz
* "Reincarnation Explained" by Chris Butler
* "Quantum Questions: mystical writings of the world's great physicists" by Ken Wilber
* "Inside Tibetan Buddhism" by Robert Thurman
* "Compassion In Action" by Ram Dass
* "Anatomy of the spirit" by Caroline Myss
* "Why people don't heal and how they can" by Caroline Myss
* "Living in process" by Anne Wilson Schaef
* "Running from safety" by Richard Bach
* "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach
* "After the ecstasy, the laundry" by Jack Kornfield
* "Full Catastrophe Living" by Jon Kabatt-Zinn
* "Seven experiments that could change the world" by Rupert Sheldrake
* "My secret life as an alien mastermind" by Owen Langford
* "The Reluctant Shaman" by Kay Whitaker
* "Cutting the ties that bind" by Phyllis Krystal
* "The Search for meaning" by Caroline Jones
* "Noises from the darkroom" by Guy claxton
* ""The Golden Thread" by Dorothy Boux
* "Nature's Prozac" by Judith Sachs
Ram dass
Dan Millman
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