Direct Spiritual Intelligent Intrusion: A Critical-Evidential Framework for Spiritual Crisis
Parawize Journal April 22, 2026 Jock Brocas
A critical-evidential transpersonal framework is proposed that integrates phenomenological insight with empirical standards from parapsychology to better understand spiritual crises involving experiences that seem to involve autonomous or external agency. The construct of Direct Spiritual Intelligent Intrusion (DSII) is introduced as a provisional model for investigating such crises when convergent subjective and objective indicators are not readily explained by internal psychological processes alone. The paper argues against a priori intrapsychic reductionism and advocates for differential diagnosis in assessing spiritual crisis, emphasizing ontological suspension, graduated evidential assessment, and clinical humility to bridge transpersonal psychology and parapsychology while reducing misclassification and premature pathologization.