Sunday Service: “Death, Transformation, and Resurrection: The Easter Pattern of Spiritual Emergence”

Speaker: Christopher Reynolds

Title: Death, Transformation, and Resurrection:

The Easter Pattern of Spiritual Emergence

Topic: Easter belongs to a larger body of stories that are maps of soul-transformation or spiritual emergency.       Spiritual emergency was coined by Christina and Stan Grof in the 1980s in order to describe difficult stages of a radical personality transformation and spiritual opening — “a time of crisis, but also at the same time, a chance to ‘emerge,’” to rise to a higher level of psychological functioning and spiritual awareness and if correctly understood and supported, these psychospiritual crises can result in emotional and psychosomatic healing, remarkable psychological changes, and consciousness evolution.

 Join speaker Christopher Reynolds as he shares the current list of spiritual emergencies, which includes shamanic crisis, awakening of kundalini, episodes of unitive consciousness (“peak experience”), psychological renewal through return to the center, crisis of psychic opening, past-life experiences, communication with spirit guides and channeling, near-death experiences (NDE’s), close encounters with UFOs and alien abduction experiences, possession states, alcoholism and drug addiction, and moral injury. He will share from his own spiritual emergence and offer resources to help       persons move wisely through Easter as a soul experience.