Spiritual Emergency
Definition
The articulation by Stanislav and Christina Grof of the structurally-overwhelming contemplative-experiences that the standard-psychiatric articulation may misread. Spiritual Emergency names the contemporary articulation of contemplative-developmental-difficulties; the broader Netist articulation reads Spiritual Emergency as bridge-articulation between contemplative-tradition and contemporary mental-health context.
Literal meaning
The articulation of structurally-overwhelming contemplative-experiences. Spiritual Emergency operates as contemporary articulation that distinguishes contemplative-developmental-difficulties from psychiatric-disorders; the Grofs' articulation supports practitioners experiencing developmental-difficulties that conventional psychiatry may misread.
Esoteric meaning
Spiritual Emergency articulates the structural-feature that the broader contemplative-tradition has recognized as *the developmental-difficulties at advanced stages*. The structural-recognition is that contemplative-development includes structurally-distinct difficulties that require specific-support; the broader Mental Illness and Signal Control article articulates one specific articulation, and Spiritual Emergency operates as broader contemporary-articulation at the bridge-articulation.
Allegorical meaning
A specific-developmental-passage that requires structural-support to navigate safely: the passage is real, the difficulties are structurally-significant, and the structural-recognition is that adequate-support during the passage is what allows the developmental-arc to continue rather than arrest.
Extended meaning
Spiritual Emergency articulates several specific structural-features: (1) The contemporary articulation operates through Stanislav and Christina Grof's *Spiritual Emergency* (1989) and the broader Spiritual Emergency Network; (2) The articulation includes specific developmental-difficulties: kundalini-rising, near-death-experience aftermath, psychic-opening, intense-shadow-emergence, and broader contemplative-developmental-difficulties; (3) The articulation supports the broader Sovereign Empath developmental-arc; the practitioner experiencing Spiritual Emergency benefits from structural-support rather than psychiatric-pathologization-only; (4) The articulation integrates with the broader Mental Illness and Signal Control article. The relationship to *Mental Illness and Signal Control*, *Sovereign Empath*, *Conscious Permeability*, *Dark Night of the Soul*, *Spiritual Counseling*, *Field Coherence*, and the broader developmental articulations is structural.
*Spiritual Emergency* articulates the contemporary developmental-difficulty articulation. The article complements *Mental Illness and Signal Control*, *Sovereign Empath*, *Conscious Permeability*, *Dark Night of the Soul*, *Spiritual Counseling*, *Field Coherence*, and the broader developmental articulations.
Usage
A practitioner encounters Spiritual Emergency in the broader articulation of contemplative-development and in specific contexts of supporting-others-or-self in developmental-difficulties.
Science correspondence
Stanislav and Christina Grof's *Spiritual Emergency* (1989). The Spiritual Emergency Network. The contemporary research at the broader transpersonal-psychology research-community.