Mental Illness or Spiritual Emergence? - A Ghost Story
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Mental Illness or Spiritual Emergence? – A Ghost Story
“The dark presence that had been haunting me, I now understand to be my native ancestors, who have been calling my name since I was a child.”
–Listener
Episode Summary:
What is our perception of reality? How do we understand reality? How do we understand these perceptions in the realm of psychology and psychiatry, and when we are diagnosing mental illness? Perhaps mental illness is on a spectrum, and not as cut and dry as the DSM and symptoms would have us believe they are.
Today’s story from a Life, Death and the Space Between listener story weaves in and out of the concepts of mental illness and spiritual emergence. And what a ride it is!
If you have not yet listened to Episode 189, “A Medium Walks into a Psychiatrist’s Office with Dr. Al Powers and Brittany Quagan – you might want to start there. Either way, please listen in with an open mind.
This Listener’s Story Touches on:
- Early auditory hallucinations, as a child in Columbia.
- Ayahuasca journeys
- Mental illness including manic episodes giving way to spiritual clarity
- Managing experiences with lifestyle choices (food, exercise, etc.)
- Coming to understand the experiences as helpful messages from native ancestors
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to Life, Death, and the Space Between podcast. I'm a licensed |
| 0:09.9 | clinical psychologist and medium. And here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means. |
| 0:17.9 | If you missed my show on Thursday, go ahead and listen to that before listening |
| 0:23.2 | to this ghost story or listen to the ghost story and let it wet your appetite for that show. Basically, |
| 0:28.6 | what we are talking about here is people who have had spiritual experiences that sort of |
| 0:35.2 | tread the line between a spiritual experience and mental illness. So I'm |
| 0:41.6 | sharing with you a story today from a listener. And I just want you to be open-minded and think about |
| 0:47.6 | what this could mean for both mental illness and spirituality. Also, if you have your own ghost story to share, you know I love your ghost stories, |
| 0:59.0 | please email them to me at Dr. Amy Robbins at gmail.com or DM me and I will sort of direct you |
| 1:06.3 | as to what exactly I need. You can DM me on Instagram at Dr. Amy Robbins. |
| 1:10.5 | Okay, here's today's |
| 1:12.0 | ghost story. Growing up, I always felt that I had a strong presence around me. I grew up in a |
| 1:20.4 | Catholic family that made me very afraid of religion. As I got older, I began to experience a lot of events that seemed too odd to be |
| 1:31.5 | coincidental. I experienced my first auditory hallucination when I was about 12 years old. I heard loud |
| 1:40.2 | dogs barking clear as day. We lived in a multifamily house which didn't allow dogs, so this scared me. |
| 1:49.0 | This was also around the time I stopped praying and believing in a higher power. |
| 1:54.0 | I was convinced that there was evil all around me, so I decided to try to block it out. |
| 2:00.0 | Through my youth, I was very shy and felt very |
| 2:03.5 | awkward around people. The depression and anxiety I felt was because I had low self-esteem, |
| 2:11.4 | and that resulted in weight gain. In my late teens, I started experimenting with psychedelics. |
| 2:18.2 | That's when I started sensing all this energy around me. |
| 2:22.1 | As I went through the stages, I opened myself up to other dimensions, |
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