When we gathered as a community in 2017 to pool all of our resources to make (a very amateur!) film, none of us envisaged just how far and wide Emerging Proud would spread and how many people it would support.

We’re all aware of the shame, stigma, and sometimes debilitatingly disempowering treatment people who try to talk openly about extreme altered states can experience – at the hands of disbelieving friends, colleagues, family and the current westernised mental health system.

But these experiences are not culture-bound, they connect us beyond any categories of difference.

Thanks to support by the ISEN team, Jeong Lee and his team in South Korea are setting up a new Spiritual Emergence Network to support people going through a difficult awakening process. It’s only people who have experienced this challenge who are equipped to support others – this is why it’s a grassroots movement.

Jeong Lee extends his gratitude to all involved in the Emerging Proud film, which has been translated into Korean for their website:

One of the major challenges of anyone who is / has gone through a challenging awakening process is explaining it, because the experiences themselves are beyond words.

The ‘3 minds model’ of Dr Anoop Kumar explains everything in such a tangible way. Dr Kumar experienced his awakening to universal consciousness as primary due to a near death experience, and he’s bringing back the information he received to his mission to create a de-colonised model for healthcare.

It’s time for a new paradigm, and you, proud emergees, are part of the sea change…. My eternal gratitude for everyone who has so bravely spoken out in order to create a safety for others to do the same. This is just the beginning…

With love, Katie ❤