Dreamy States and Cosmic Wanderings: An Autoethnographic Narrative of Spiritual Experiences in Epilepsy

Louise Spiers is an Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist and Counsellor. She has a private psychotherapy practice in London, where she uses creative therapeutic methods that include the use of dreams and archetypal symbolism to facilitate healing in adult clients. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Psychology & Counselling at the University of Northampton, where she is a doctoral candidate conducting research into transpersonal understandings of spiritual experiences in epilepsy. Louise is passionate about the power of autoethnography as a qualitative methodology for researching the phenomenology of experiences that are otherwise pathologized or silenced. Correspondence to: Louise Spiers, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Education and Society, Waterside Campus, The University of Northampton, University Drive, Northampton NN1 5HP, UK. Email: Louise.Spiers@northampton.ac.uk.