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Recorded April 2022
Following her own sudden non-dual experience one morning in February 2016, Jessica Corneille decided to change the course of her life by quitting her career in the arts/cultural heritage preservation (and as an aspiring art curator), to play her part, instead, in helping to de-stigmatise, de-pathologise and raise awareness around spiritual awakening, enlightenment, and non-dual experiences within mainstream psychology.
She graduated with Distinction from a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Greenwich, where she focused her studies on the psychology of exceptional human experiences (transpersonal, anomalistic and parapsychology), under the guidance of Dr David Luke. She is now a fully-qualified research psychologist specialising predominantly in spiritual awakenings of a spontaneous nature, as well as other non-ordinary states of consciousness. Jessica has presented her work at a number of academic conferences, including with the British Psychological Society. She also works for the Scientific and Medical Network, is a member of the Galileo Commission steering committee, a collaborator of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium and Spiritual Crisis Network, a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher running regular classes in London, and has recently started running sharing circles with the Psychedelic Society and Spiritual Awakenings International.
Her greatest missions in life are to challenge the default pathologisation of awakening experiences by helping to inform and encourage mainstream psychology to look beyond the current designated spectrum of ‘normality’, to encompass the transpersonal as something that is intrinsic to the human experience, and in helping individuals come to the realisation of their highest human potential.
You can read her academic paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720579
For Spiritual Awakening Sharing Circles in London with Jessica (occasionally online): https://dandelion.earth/u/dust_
To get in touch email: jessicacorneille@gmail.com
0:00 Jessica’s bio
2:35 Jessica’s spiritual awakening
4:00 Lucid dream: what is the meaning of life?
10:00 This is possible for everyone
17:00 Nothing matters & everything does
18:00 What lasts?
19:41 Integrating the experience: finding community
23:00 Raising awareness of spiritual awakenings
26:50 What is true awakening?
29:00 Letting go of gurus and religion
31:40 Support for others who have spontaneous experiences
Addressing the pathologisation in psychiatry
34:00 Reaction to Jessica’s academic paper
38:00 Where to get support?
40:00 Is reality dual or nondual?
42:30 God - Consciousness - Life - Intelligence
43:20 Kundalini Yoga
47:00 Finding your own path
49:50 Losing the experience
53:30 Research collaborations
Resources mentioned:
American Centre for the Integration of Spiritual Transformative Experiences
ACISTE aciste.org
Spiritual Crisis Network spiritualcrisisnetwork.uk
Spiritual Emergence Network spiritualemergencenetwork.org
Emerging Proud emergingproud.com
The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium theeprc.org
Recorded April 2022
Following her own sudden non-dual experience one morning in February 2016, Jessica Corneille decided to change the course of her life by quitting her career in the arts/cultural heritage preservation (and as an aspiring art curator), to play her part, instead, in helping to de-stigmatise, de-pathologise and raise awareness around spiritual awakening, enlightenment, and non-dual experiences within mainstream psychology.
She graduated with Distinction from a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Greenwich, where she focused her studies on the psychology of exceptional human experiences (transpersonal, anomalistic and parapsychology), under the guidance of Dr David Luke. She is now a fully-qualified research psychologist specialising predominantly in spiritual awakenings of a spontaneous nature, as well as other non-ordinary states of consciousness. Jessica has presented her work at a number of academic conferences, including with the British Psychological Society. She also works for the Scientific and Medical Network, is a member of the Galileo Commission steering committee, a collaborator of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium and Spiritual Crisis Network, a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher running regular classes in London, and has recently started running sharing circles with the Psychedelic Society and Spiritual Awakenings International.
Her greatest missions in life are to challenge the default pathologisation of awakening experiences by helping to inform and encourage mainstream psychology to look beyond the current designated spectrum of ‘normality’, to encompass the transpersonal as something that is intrinsic to the human experience, and in helping individuals come to the realisation of their highest human potential.
You can read her academic paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720579
For Spiritual Awakening Sharing Circles in London with Jessica (occasionally online): https://dandelion.earth/u/dust_
To get in touch email: jessicacorneille@gmail.com
0:00 Jessica’s bio
2:35 Jessica’s spiritual awakening
4:00 Lucid dream: what is the meaning of life?
10:00 This is possible for everyone
17:00 Nothing matters & everything does
18:00 What lasts?
19:41 Integrating the experience: finding community
23:00 Raising awareness of spiritual awakenings
26:50 What is true awakening?
29:00 Letting go of gurus and religion
31:40 Support for others who have spontaneous experiences
Addressing the pathologisation in psychiatry
34:00 Reaction to Jessica’s academic paper
38:00 Where to get support?
40:00 Is reality dual or nondual?
42:30 God - Consciousness - Life - Intelligence
43:20 Kundalini Yoga
47:00 Finding your own path
49:50 Losing the experience
53:30 Research collaborations
Resources mentioned:
American Centre for the Integration of Spiritual Transformative Experiences
ACISTE aciste.org
Spiritual Crisis Network spiritualcrisisnetwork.uk
Spiritual Emergence Network spiritualemergencenetwork.org
Emerging Proud emergingproud.com
The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium theeprc.org
