Are You Getting Enlightened Or Losing Your Mind?
A Psychiatrist's Guide for Mastering Paranormal and Spiritual Experience
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Larry Dossey, M.D.
INTRODUCTION
Experiences of Spirit in a Secular World
Finding Meaning in Your Own Miracle
Part I — Opening the Mind to Spirit
1 OPENING TO THE POSSIBILITIES
A Powerful Mystical Experience
Psychic Beginnings
A Spiritual Teacher remakes a Psychiatrist
Illness: A Doctor Learns Compassion the Hard Way
2 TWENTY-FIVE SPIRITUAL QUESTIONS
PSYCHIATRISTS ARE AFRAID TO ASK
Who is God and Where does She Live?
3 A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SPIRITUAL PSYCHIATRIST
Guided Imagery
4 THE HEALING POWER OF HUMAN VALUES
5 PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT (PSA)
Peak Performance
6 BELIEF MEDICINE
Shamanism and Soccery
Eastern Healing Systems
Universal Healing Principles
Folk Medicine of the American Tribe
Mixed Messages About Healing
7 GETTING CONSCIOUS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS
The Language of Consciousness
Kundalini: A Great Masquerader
PART II — Getting Enlightened
8 HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Out-of-Body Experience
Deathbed Experience
Healing Trances
Identity Switching
Nirvana
9 VISUAL PARANORMALEXPERIENCES
Visions Versus Hallucinations
Angels
Visions of the Departed
Ghosts and Hauntings
Psychic Attack and Spirit Possession
Thought Forms
Artistic Hallucinations
The Human Aura
Past-Life Memory
10 EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION
ESP of Sound
ESP of Smell
ESP of Empathy
11 MIRACLES
Mind-Body Miracles
The Power of Prayer
God’s Invisible Hand
Part III — The Lost Mind
12 WHAT IS THE MIND?
Organic Brain Syndromes:
When the Chemistry Isn't Right
Schizophrenia:
When the Brain and Mind Drive Each Other Crazy
Mania: When the Brain Goes on Overdrive
Borderline Personality Disorder:
When Spirit and Mind Collide
Multiple Personality Disorder:
When Dividing Is Surviving
13 WHEN THE SPIRIT CAN HELP THE MIND
Depression: When the Past Won't Let Go
Anxiety Disorders: When the Future Takes Over
Neurosis and Suffering
14 MIRACLES OR MADNESS
Part IV — Tools for Transformation:
Making Your Own Miracles
15 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID
How to Recognize the Real Inner Voice
How to Diagnose Your Own Miracles
Practicing Forgiveness
16 SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY:
OPENING THE DOOR TO CHANGE
One-Minute Imagery Rituals
17 SYMPTOMS, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Career
Energy
Fear
Feeling Trapped
Love and Money: Learning Abundance
18 Total Transformation
19 The Tao of Love
20 FACING THE VOID:
HOW PROFOUND EMPTINESS IS CURED
Exploring the Void
Divine Assistance
The Inner Abuser
EPILOGUE —
THE ANSWER TO THE BOOK'S TITLE:
Are You getting Enlightened?
APPENDIX A: MENTAL FITNESS TECHNIQUES
APPENDIX B: GUIDELINES
