When I was in a bookstore in the 70s and first encountered a book on tantra and the concept that sex was spiritual, it stopped me dead in my tracks. “Of course,” I said out loud, under my breath, “what else could it be?” I...
Sexual mindfulness may be defined as an embodied state of consciousness similar to mindfulness meditation (Thouin-Savard, 2019), that is, a strategy to set aside mental activity and instead feel, act, and interact with one’s sexuality from an embodied state of attention. Sexual mindfulness has been...
When we seek to carry the vision of Daniel’s (2021) “extending stream” forward in the field of transpersonal psychology, it is most important that we honor numerous voices as we have been doing in this class. It is also important that we continue to challenge...
How can a deeper understanding of diversity and/or ecology expand the scope of Transpersonal Psychology as a field?Transpersonal Psychology was originally the study of the so-called Perennial Philosophy, the supposed one truth that underlies all spiritualities. Of course what was meant by “all spiritualities” was those founded and...
In thinking about how this module’s material has changed or informed my overall understanding of integral Transpersonal Psychology as a field, I would say that I am pleased to learn that TP has expanded so broadly in its incorporation of the somatic. In the days of Ken-Wilber-as-god,...
This is something we have not encountered before in the ascending literature. The goal of spirituality has been seen as a personal, individual striving toward the highest levels of awareness, i.e. enlightenment. The path was portrayed as isolated, individual, and non-relational. Here we have something...
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has published a psychedelic therapy model of a nine-month course of psychotherapy interspersed with three psychedelic sessions, usually MDMA or psilocybin. This model (Mitthoefer et al., 2014) allows the therapist to assess firstly for the stability of the...
Bynum (1992) presents the African lineage as an example of a highly developed spirituality that grew and flourished under a non-white, non-hierarchical tradition going back to at least the beginnings of the Egyptian civilization, also known as Kemet. African traditions developed before the discipline of...
Jenny Wade (2000) states that transpersonal experiences have the potential for immense healing, life enhancement, personal transformation, and spiritual realizations. Stan Grof, who conducted thousands of studies on the transformational potentials of LSD, talks about the healing, transformative, and evolutionary potentials of nonordinary states of...
In the early days of transpersonal psychology the works of Ken Wilbur, in particular The Spectrum of Consciousness (1977) and No Boundary (1979), were considered basic texts, and the concepts they offered were novel and inspiring. Wilber is a genius at synthetization, and these books...