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...
Guide to Spiritual L.A., a fun and easy-to-read guided tour of the spiritual hotspots around the City of Angels, has been awarded a 2020 Nautilus Book Award. Four-time author Catherine Auman reveals a surprisingly rich and wide-ranging spiritual history that goes far beyond the stereotypical...
We don’t usually think of Midtown when we think of Spiritual L.A., but it’s there, it’s there. Agape International Spiritual Center Currently housed at the Saban Theatre. Check out the charisma, the music, the vibe. 8440 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211 The Kabbalah Center Previously movie star central. 1062...
One of the more unconventional individuals in greater LA spiritual history was George Van Tassel (March 12, 1910 - February 9, 1978). Van, as he was called, used knowledge he received from ETs to build the Integratron, and held yearly UFO conventions at Giant Rock...
Taking a stand that “I’m going to live in love” is saying I'm going to do this. I'm sure in your dating life you’ve come to a place where after a disappointment you decided to stop. I stopped for many years -- I didn’t believe...
Of all the major world religions, Islam has the second number of believers, and it is the third largest religion in the United States. Most people think of Islam as belonging to the Middle East, but in fact only twenty percent live there. Most Muslims...