About SensitiveBeing

About Anthony

My name is Anthony Fidler.

I am a graduate of Cambridge University, a Tai Chi teacher, mindfulness teacher and Sei-Ki practitioner and teacher.

At the age of twenty-nine, I experienced an overwhelming crisis that led to psychiatric hospitalisation and a diagnosis of psychosis.

Over the following decade, I continued to encounter non-ordinary states of consciousness, gradually learning to understand and navigate them through the lens of spiritual crisis.

I experienced many of the phenomena commonly associated with psychosis and spiritual crisis, including profound alterations in perception, overwhelming emotional states, experiences of unity, voices, paranoia and periods where it became difficult to distinguish inner and outer reality.

Through mindfulness, embodied practices, support from others and a long process of reflection and integration, these experiences gradually stabilised. Today I live a happy and fulfilling life.

For the past several years I have been sharing these ideas and experiences through writing, talks, workshops and one-to-one support with experiencers, family members, clinicians and others interested in spiritual crisis, psychosis and recovery. My work has been shared in Switzerland, Brazil, Luxembourg and the UK.

I sincerely hope SensitiveBeing can play a role in helping society evolve the way it understands and responds to emotional distress, trauma, spiritual crisis and other non-ordinary experiences.

You can also explore my detailed CV and an interview with Jules Evans, Unlocking the Positives in Spiritual Psychosis .