OPENING QUESTIONS
p. 4Foreword
An invitation into Jonathan’s personal search for meaning.
A QUESTION TO CARRY
What questions are you bringing to the book?
A MEMOIR BY JONATHAN THOMPSON
Spiritual
Psychosis
A Memoir of Meaning —
From Shattered Sanity
to Spiritual Revelation.
Four episodes of psychosis. A deeply personal search for meaning. Jonathan Thompson explores the questions his experiences raised about the mind, the spirit, and reality itself.
Explore the journey Read a passageRead at your pace.
Make room for your own meaning.
Make room for your own meaning.
THE BOOKJONATHAN THOMPSON
THE FIRST PAGE IS ONLY THE BEGINNINGSCROLL TO EXPLORE
01THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK
A memoir.
A search for meaning.
JONATHAN THOMPSON
MEMOIR & PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATION
ISBN 978-1-7647527-0-1
What happens when the experiences that unsettle your world also leave you questioning what it means?
In Spiritual Psychosis, Jonathan Thompson recounts four episodes of psychosis and the profound questions they raised about consciousness, faith, creativity, and existence.
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In Spiritual Psychosis, Jonathan shares his journey through four episodes of psychosis — experiences which caused him to question everything he thought he knew about reality and wrestle with profound questions concerning consciousness, faith, creativity, and existence.
Part memoir and part philosophical exploration, the book follows his search for meaning at the intersection of mental illness and spiritual experience. Through moments of fear, wonder, confusion, and revelation, he explores the fine line between breakdown and breakthrough, asking whether experiences often viewed solely as mental illness may also contain deeper insights into what it means to be human.
Honest, thought-provoking, and deeply personal, Spiritual Psychosis invites readers on a journey that challenges assumptions and explores one of life’s greatest mysteries: the relationship between the mind, the spirit, and reality itself.
02INSIDE THE MEMOIR
A life unfolding.
One chapter at a time.
Find your place in the story. Explore brief chapter introductions, then carry a question back to the book.
No chapters found.
Try a different word, or choose the whole journey.
03A FEW WORDS FROM THE PAGES
Read a little.
Look a little closer.
Four short passages. Four ways into the memoir. Choose a thread and discover what it opens up.
LOOK CLOSER
YOUR READING QUESTION
04FOUR THREADS TO FOLLOW
Meet the questions
beneath the title.
Consciousness. Faith. Creativity. Existence. Explore four themes named in the book’s description, and carry a question into your reading.
CONSCIOUSNESS
Jonathan’s experiences lead him to question what he thought he knew about reality.
How do you distinguish what an experience feels like from what you conclude it means?
As you read, notice the difference between Jonathan’s descriptions of his experiences and his reflections on them.
05THE READING COMPANION
Follow your
curiosity.
Every reader brings a different perspective. Choose where you are in your reading, and find a question to spend some time with.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
01 / 03Where do you usually look for meaning?
Jonathan’s memoir follows a personal search for meaning. Begin by noticing what that word means in your own life.
1 of 9 questions explored
06YOUR READER’S NOTEBOOK
A little space
for your thoughts.
A word. A passage. A question you haven’t answered yet. Keep the things you want to return to.
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Your notebook is ready for its first thought.
07THE PERSON BEHIND THE PAGES
08BUY THE BOOK
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Continue the journey.
Spiritual Psychosis
A memoir of meaning, exploring consciousness, faith, creativity, and existence through Jonathan’s personal experiences.
ISBN 978-1-7647527-0-1
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