James Norwood - Madness, Spiritual Emergence, and the Gnosis Retreat Center
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2018
⏱️ 91 minutes
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A brief introduction to Gnosis
Suppose you come to the end of your tether, can no longer cope, have a break-down, fall apart, go to pieces. To whom would you turn? Where would you go? What alternatives do you have when you desperately need help, but have little, if any, say in the kind of help available? When a person's suffering becomes insupportable, to him or herself and to others, and yet persists, that person is in a state of distress. Once you find yourself in distress you come to realize that you are at the mercy of other people. Which of those people are you willing to be at their mercy, for better or worse? To whom are you willing to entrust your life? If you don't happen to know anyone who comes to mind, then how will you go about finding someone you can trust? Do such persons exist? Gnosis Retreat Center aspires to be such a place, by providing a safe place to be, when you are alone and afraid, confused, bereft, and not sure whom to turn to for help. Gnosis is a household that is populated by others like yourself, a refuge for those who are lost, afraid, bewildered, or simply seeking a fresh start, who may, if they choose, get over their ordeal and see it through, without jeopardy.If you want to learn more about spiritual emergence(y) check out this online webinar: Spiritual Emergence or Psychosis?
Links
- Gnosis Website: Gnosisretreatcenter.org
- Gnosis Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Gnosisretreatcenter/
- Gnosis Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA1MQyM14pcKhu96Zr5e2WA?view_as=subscriber
- Gnosis donations: https://www.youcaring.com/gnosisretreatcenter-752245
- Gnosis Twitter: https://twitter.com/GnosisRetreatC
About James Norwood, MA
James Norwood, MA, is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California. Norwood is presently working as a clinical intern, researching MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in concert with the Multi-Disciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, and is on the board of directors of Free Association Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides alternatives to treatment for people with altered experiences of reality in the Bay Area. About Michelle Anne Hobart, MA
Michelle Anne Hobart, MA: is a practitioner of energy medicine and holistic health educator. She holds a BS in Biology, and an MA in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. Currently, she is doing coursework in Integral Counseling Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies. Michelle is an advocate for the Neurodiversity movement and a certified Spiritual Emergence Coach. She supports sensitive, empathic people whose gifts and experiences have been judged or oppressed and who are in the process of reclaiming and recovering their self-care, power, and personal truth. Michelle offers workshops, retreats, support groups, and one-on-one sessions.Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Psychedelics. Today, everybody, this is Joe Moore. |
| 0:11.2 | Today on the show, we have some very interesting guests. I am not on the show. I listened to it today |
| 0:18.0 | in editing and was very fascinated by the discussion. |
| 0:25.2 | Today we have James Norwood and Michelle Hobart. |
| 0:30.4 | Kyle has known Michelle for a long time, has been doing kind of webinars, zoominars, I think. |
| 0:33.7 | He says the name he uses on the intro here. But yeah, Michelle's been a friend of the show for a while and done some really interesting work with Kyle. And James Hobart is new, new to me, but really fascinating guy. |
| 0:45.1 | We in the psychedelic world owe a debt of gratitude to a psychiatrist named Artie Lang. |
| 0:50.8 | Artie Lang pioneered a lot of psychotherapy. He was probably the most popular |
| 0:56.1 | psychotherapist in the 70s. And it's kind of this live and let live philosophy, like what happens |
| 1:01.5 | if you don't give shame? He was also part of this Esselin crew, kind of intro to Artie Lang's |
| 1:08.8 | really piss poor, but sorry about that. We get into him during the show. |
| 1:13.0 | And James actually, I believe is working with Michelle to put on this Nosis Retreat Center, or put on, |
| 1:19.5 | coordinate what they're calling the Gnosis Retreat Center. And it's an Artie Lang inspired center |
| 1:25.8 | where people with extreme states can go to live and live with |
| 1:30.9 | people who also experience extreme states on occasion. The idea is that people who do |
| 1:36.4 | experience extreme states like psychosis, extreme psychosis or stuff that looks like spiritual |
| 1:41.8 | emergence in the psychedelic world, maybe they feel crazy and they need to go be near people that are like them so that they |
| 1:49.8 | can be accepted as part of a community. |
| 1:53.1 | And this is an accepted model in the UK and it's been pretty well established there. |
| 1:58.8 | And it looks like it's going to be more established here. They're |
| 2:02.0 | looking for donors right now and trying to make a list of people who want to move in. So they're |
| 2:08.6 | trying to acquire a house in the San Francisco Bay Area and also just make a list of folks that |
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