Dearest Readers,
I simply realized that my e book “Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Private and Transpersonal to Rework Well being and Consciousness” gained a Nautilus Award. The core mission of the Nautilus Awards is to rejoice and honor books that assist aware dwelling and inexperienced values, wellness, social change, social justice, and religious development.
I’m deeply enthusiastic about this because it offers my e book extra visibility and credibility. It can assist unfold the message on the coronary heart of my e book; particularly that cultivating consciousness of the sacred has a profound affect on therapeutic each personally and collectively. The standard apply of medication and psychiatry is basically allergic to something that can not be weighed, measured, or perceived with our 5 peculiar senses and thus there isn’t a place for together with the ability of the numinous side of expertise in therapeutic. It’s additionally thrilling {that a} e book that values the traditional artwork of astrology gained a prize. This represents an vital attitudinal sea change.
To have my e book acknowledged with this award appears like a miracle. It was a significant wrestle for me to convey my e book into the world as I contended with a lot concern and self-doubt. I solely persevered due to that also, small, however insistent voice inside me that knew that I needed to do it. It took me ten years.
Within the e book I wrote, ” On a private notice, psychedelic medicines have performed a necessary function in bringing this e book into the world. My journey experiences have enabled me to beat the idea that neither I nor the e book have been sufficient; that if I spoke my fact, my concepts can be ridiculed; and that each the e book and I wanted someway to be completely different. The understanding gained with the usage of these medicines helped me to have the braveness to authentically share my perspective. Most significantly, I used to be proven that this isn’t about me, however fairly about how I will help at a time of nice want when there may be a lot concern and struggling. For me, as for most individuals, the affect of developmental trauma has continued to trigger struggling all through the life span, however within the phrases of religious instructor Ram Das, “We will change into connoisseurs of our neuroses,” and that may make all of the distinction!” (p.59)
I share this with you to encourage you to take heed to your instinct, to imagine in your self, and to dedicate your self to doing the psychospiritual work of metabolizing the consequences of ancestral and childhood trauma, in addition to the social conditioning that continues to undermine and restrict you. We’re at a time of large transition and disaster on our planet, a time of dying and re-birth, and the present that every of you was born to present to the world is required now greater than ever. Your contribution, in no matter kind that takes, issues enormously.
Each morning once I say my prayers I embody a quote from activist adrienne maree brown, ” i’m not afraid of what i got here right here to do/ i’m fabricated from stardust/ we’re not afraid of what we’re referred to as now to do, we’re all fabricated from god.” We every want to recollect who we actually are, claiming our personal and one another’s divinity, in addition to honoring the sacredness of the world through which we dwell. Cultivating this consciousness will embolden and strengthen us as we work collectively to create the “extra stunning world that our hearts know is feasible.” 1
Here’s a dialog about my e book that I beloved with the great astrologer and poet Heidi Rose Robbins who invited me to her podcast, The Radiance Mission.
- “The Extra Stunning World Our Hearts Know is Potential” Eisenstein, Charles North Atlantic Books 2013
“Sacred Psychiatry” is now obtainable as an audiobook in addition to a print model.
