Firewalkers

Description
Firewalkers chronicles the profound, turbulent, spiritual experience of living through a mental health crisis. What our society labels as “mental illness” can be a sacred quest that has the power to enrich us, reveal unknown strengths, and transform our lives.

Could it be that what we are diagnosing as mental illness is in fact a search for wholeness, balance, and meaning in a sometimes painful and irrational world? firewalkers is the story of people who have experienced extreme mental states and, through this experience, have learned things they never expected to learn and become people they never expected to be.

After we walk through the fire, and everything burns away from us, our lives can become deeper, richer, and strangely more powerful. We’ve all heard depressing stories about people experiencing mental health struggles, but we rarely hear about the growth and transformation that can come through this journey.

A guidebook to radically rethinking mental health, firewalkers redefines mental illness as: emotional turbulence and altered states; visionary meltdowns and spiritual breakthroughs; ecstatic visions and crazy blessings.