Editor’s note: One of my mental health advocate friends sent me this from the East Coast to help me through my spiritual emergency and said that I could repost it.

My encounters with spirits and demons started in 1996. The first visual hallucination I had was claiming I saw the face of Jesus come out of the T.V after saying a prayer. The next one was of a demon face that transformed right in front of me at the psychiatric ward I ended up in when I envisioned the end of the world prophecies coming true.

It’s a long story to how I got to where I am and believe me, in the mist of a spiritual crisis I don’t hesitate to reach out to friend who does some weird spiritual healings with Mo Wheeler:

http://www.healingmusic.org/MaryMoWheeler/index.asp

If I had to sum it up and could give some advice as to where I found answers I would say:

The connections we have during these spiritual crisis are something very special, as difficult as they are to go through, feel bless that you are able to survive them, there is wisdom coming in through a window of opportunity in what some consider an unseen bio-chemical-spiritual warfare.

It is communication from different dimensions, some of which are very dark, but none the less, needs to be communicated with. The book Mutant Message from Down Under, by Dr. Marlo Morgan is one that I connected with and found answers in. The Celestine Prophecy and lectures/books of Joseph Campbell helped, as these experiences are common to a shaman’s journey and a spiritual awakening.

I like the Cliff Notes version of things, so 2 of my favorites to rely on are these:

Desiderata

• Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
• Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
• Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
• Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
• Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
• Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
• Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
• And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.
• Strive to be happy.

Brian Gallmeyer at Peace on the bank of the Missouri River. Next to an old steamboat hitch.

 A Prayer That Helped Me Through Spiritual Emergency:

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace.
That where there is hatred I may bring love,
That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness,
That where there is discord, I may bring harmony,
That where there is error I may bring truth,
That where there is doubt I may bring faith,
That where there is despair I may bring hope,
That where there are shadows I may bring light,
That where there is sadness I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted,
To understand than to be understood,
To love than to be loved.
For it is by forgetting self that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven,
it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
Amen.