Are You Getting Enlightened Or Losing Your Mind?
A Psychiatrist's Guide for Mastering Paranormal and Spiritual Experience
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“Dr. David Gersten is a healer in the highest sense of the word.  
He has supplemented his technical skills with uncommon wisdom, compassion, and love, which shine through on every page.”
Larry Dossey, M.D.
AUTHORHealing Words the Power of Prayer

“I was enthralled with Are You Getting Enlightened Or Losing 
Your Mind?  Dr. Gersten's courageous, heartfelt, and practical look at 
the interface of enlightenment and mental illness is inspiring, authentic, and life-changing.  I couldn't put it down.  The deep understanding 
and healing that Dr. Gersten brings to his psychiatric patients 
is available, through this book, to each of us - regardless of 
our current state of health.”
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
AUTHORWomen's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

“A psychiatrist openly and honestly shares his life's experience.  
Read what he has lived and learned so that you can liberate 
yourself and live fully.”
Bernie Siegel, M.D.
AUTHOR: Love, Medicine, and Miracles

“The current medical industry has no models to aid a clinician 
in distinguishing, assessing, and helping patients with spiritual 
experiences.  By speaking out and providing integrative language, 
Dr. Gersten is helping to transform the excesses of an exclusive,
 narrow, biological model.”
Scott Walker, M.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY
College of Medicine, University of New Mexico
PRAISE FOR
ARE YOU GETTING ENLIGHTENED OR 
LOSING YOUR MIND?
“Some very simple truths and techniques from a caring author.
David steps in and out of 'reality' with ease.  A brave, courageous book that challenges our assumptions and teaches in the same breath.  Wonderfully cluttered with techniques, anecdotes, and stories.”
Peter Jensen, Ph.D.
AUTHORThe Inside Edge: 
High Performance Through Mental Fitness

“Dr. Gersten courageously incorporates spirituality into the practice 
of medicine, bringing alive the true essence of healing.”
Judith Orloff, M.D.
AUTHORSecond Sight

“Dr. Gersten masterfully moves readers straight into the day-to-day 
arena of spiritual transformation. This is a profound guide that spiritual seekers will celebrate?”
Bradford Keeney, Ph.D. 
AUTHOR Everyday Soul: Awakening the Spirit in Daily Life 

“In this comprehensive and highly accessible book, Dr. Gersten 
shares his passion for the healing potential inherent in a spiritual orientation to life. His thirty years of experience... have taught him that both mystical experiences and mental illness are real... and, most important, discernible even to the average lay person. This book 
can change your life.” 
Janet Quinn, Ph.D., R.N. 
AUTHORI Am A Woman Finding My Voice: 
Celebrating the Extraordinary Blessings of Being a Woman.