Richmond IONS August Meeting 2019 (August 17) and Central Virginia IONS Community Group Meeting, featuring a talk by Frank Pasciuti, Ph.D.
Where: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, New Parish Hall, 12291 River Road, Richmond, VA 23238
When: Saturday, August 17, 2019, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, followed by a potluck lunch at the conclusion of the program.
Richmond IONS August Meeting Program
“A Model for Understanding Normal and Supernormal Capacities of Human Consciousness.”
Our August 17, 2019, program will feature a talk by Frank Pasciuti, Ph.D., Charlottesville-based licensed clinical psychologist, certified hypnotherapist and author.
In this presentation, Dr. Pasciuti will share the explanatory model he uses when working with clients in crises. It covers a broad range of human functioning, offering insight into crises that affect normal
areas of human development, as well as supernormal ones. In turn, crises arising from supernormal experiences are often referred to as spiritual emergencies.
Two Types of Crises
By comparison, normal crises can occur when someone experiences the death of a loved one, conflicts in relationships, loss of employment, or serious health concerns. On the other hand, the spiritual emergency type crises often follow a psychic or paranormal experience. Due to their rare occurrence and unfamiliar nature, their foreignness can raise fear and precipitate a crisis. For example, they can include a precognitive dream, an NDE, an out-of-body experience, or perceived contact with spirit.
In order for his model to encompass and address such a broad range of crises, Dr. Pasciuti distills the areas they impact into ten key capacities of human functioning and examines each of them. Next, he shows how in response to the spiritual crisis, the need for development in a given area can lead to an increase in its mastery. As a result, that increased mastery, in turn, contributes to the individual’s growth and transformation.
During his talk, Dr. Pasciuti will share personal stories and case examples from his just published book, Chrysalis Crisis: How Life’s Ordeals Can Lead To Personal & Spiritual Transformation. As a result, these vignettes exemplify how each of the key areas were engaged as catalysts for growth and transformation in the aftermath of a crisis.
Finally, Dr. Pasciuti will explain how all these ten key areas of human functioning can be viewed as capacities of consciousness. There, they exist on an overall map of evolving consciousness. In addition, he also explains how they can contribute to a life of joy, happiness, and peace. This is especially the case when all these areas are synergistically working.
About Frank Pasciuti, Ph.D., Our Richmond IONS August Meeting Presenter
Frank Pasciuti, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified hypnotherapist in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is founder and president of Associated Clinicians of Virginia. He provides psychotherapy and organizational development services to individuals and businesses.
Dr. Pasciuti is chairman of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at The Monroe Institute, in Faber, Virginia. He collaborates on research related to NDEs, psychic phenomena, and the survival of consciousness at the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS). DOPS is a research unit of the department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
He is author of Chrysalis Crisis: How Life’s Ordeals Can Lead to Personal and Spiritual Transformation.
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