I really appreciated Daniels’s musings on the shadow, especially as it relates to our field. The issue of the “exotic agenda” really spoke to me, and I pondered quite a bit over his list of the mundane events of life that have most influenced him:...
Since their inceptions, both humanistic and transpersonal psychologies have stood outside the mainstream of scientific, reductionist psychology. Both disciplines have remained outsiders, even though many of the concepts, techniques, and worldviews of humanistic and transpersonal have permeated mainstream psychological thought, appearing especially in the psychotherapy...
When we talk about foreshadowing the transpersonal: William James, the Transcendentalists and Depth Psychology, it seems to be a bit of a misnomer. William James, in fact, rather than foreshadowing, created transpersonal psychology in his book, The Varieties of Religious Experience. When I read this...
This week’s emphasis on self and culture has made a clear case for the social construction of self. Daniels provides an overview of the many concepts of self/soul throughout world religions and cultures and talks about the lack of sophistication of the English language in...
I must confess to being quite blown away by Constructing the Self – the whole concept that we’ve become a people who create our sense of self through consumerism -- I can’t stop thinking about this, considering examples in the media, in my patients, and...
What we know of as Western psychology began in the late 1880s as the fledgling discipline attempted to incorporate the scientific worldview (Hartelius, date unknown). During the previous century, in what was known as the Age of Reason, people’s relationship with God had been increasingly...
The maxim “I think therefore I am” has been lurking in my peripheral vision for as long as I’ve been a thinking person, appearing in textbooks, pleasure reading, and on coffee cups and t-shirts. I’ve never held it as much more than a historical placeholder,...
“ You have much to do. You have to write. You have to speak … you have to shout from the rooftops. And I will be there shouting through you, don’t be worried. You just start, and the remainder I will do.” Osho, The Passion...
You learned about the Gottman’s formula of five statements of praise and gratitude to one correction or request. What if you took this on as a daily discipline to praise, thank, or flirt with your partner five times a day?There are an unlimited number of...
For pure tantric relating you’ll need to do a major housecleaning. Anything still bugging you from the past keeps you from being able to be present with what’s really happening. An example might be if you grew up with a father who was always criticizing...
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