Belly-flopping  Into Mysticism with Penni Kolpin

Belly-flopping into Mysticism is a phrase I came up with based on Joseph Campbell's quote, "The psychotic (person) drowns in the same waters a mystic revels in."

I fell into those violent "waters" -- a very strange level of consciousness in 1998.  Like too many people, I  was not helped nor supported very well by the mental health system. While there are efforts to help people more, there is still considerable misunderstanding which too often results in added pain to someone who is drowning and flailing while trying to deal with non-ordinary states of mystical consciousness.

While I was fortunate in that I made my way to a place of healing, many others do not. My goal with this channel is to present tools and approaches that would have helped me significantly so that hopefully others can benefit.

As I say on the home page of my website at http://pennikolpin.com, "The people who make the journey are in the best place to describe the landscape."