Imagine a better world in which people having spiritual experiences, particularly the unusual and powerful ones, could interact with providers in mental health and medicine and be met with deep and useful knowledge of what was going on with them, an appreciation of the process, normalization, helpful suggestions, useful information and referrals, appropriate differential diagnoses and testing, and skillful management.

That’s the world I dream of, so most of my time these days goes to helping to promote that vision through helping to organize and find support for talented academic scholar-practitioners from a variety of disciplines from neurophenomenology to anthropology (and others) with knowledge of various spiritual paths themselves from universities around the world who believe that the mainstream worlds of mental health and medicine can and should be empowered to do better.

If spiritual depth is going to scale, we need these sorts of broad, accepted, well-funded support structures in place to support that sometimes complicated growth process and make it as safe and productive as it can be.

To those ends, I spend much of my time and resources these days working to support the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC) and Emergence Benefactors, the charity designed to support it.

You can find my research offerings at ResearchGate, Academia, and Open Science Foundation (where I post various data sets to support open science research, such as on meditation and neurophenomomenology).

If you are interested in helping, please contact me at: dr daniel m ingram @ g mail . com without the spaces.