Jenny Wade (1952-present) is a research psychologist, lecturer, educator, organization and leadership development consultant, and professor at CIIS. She is the originator of and major contributor to the subfield of transpersonal sex, or, mystical experiences that happen to people while they are making love. In...
Riane Eisler (1931 – present) is a philosopher, the author of 13 books, an attorney, a futurist, a systems scientist, and the founder, with her husband, of The Center for Partnership Systems. She has been a widely influential thinker with her view of the different...
Alice Bunker Stockham (1833-1912) was one of the first female M.D.s in the U.S. and a significant voice for gender equality, birth control, and the sacredness of sex. Born to Quaker parents, she practiced medicine in the Chicago area and traveled widely, including staying with...
Gina Ogden, PhD (1935-2018) was a feminist, sex researcher, teacher, scholar, author of 13 books, and wisdom teacher. She was a pioneer in introducing the spiritual dimension into mainstream sexology. She put forth the model of the 4-D Network of which the four dimensions were...
Irina Tweedie (1907-1999) was a mystic and Sufi teacher. She was born in Russia and educated in Europe. When Tweedie was 54, her husband died and, in her grief, she set off on a spiritual quest that led her to the Theosophical Society and later...
Ida Craddock (1857-1902) was an occult scholar, sex educator, champion of free speech and women’s rights, and an author. She spoke and counseled advocating a sacred view of sex, and wrote extensively about sex magic techniques performed in conjunction with her disembodied spirit husband. Because...
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an artist, occultist, surrealist, feminist, novelist, and wisdom teacher. Her influence has only been growing since her death, and by her inclusion in the revisioning of the surrealist movement from a boys’ club to a movement in which important women artists...
Dion Fortune (1890-1946) is widely considered one of the two most influential occultists of the 20th century (the other being Aleister Crowley). Born Violet Firth, Fortune was a psychotherapist, a powerful psychic, a ceremonial magician, and the author of over 20 books, both novels and...
In thinking about how my overall understanding of integral Transpersonal Psychology as a field has expanded, 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, the transpersonal field...
The following is Part Two of an interview conducted with Catherine Auman by Melissa Aberkane, a PhD student from the Sorbonne: Have you noticed common themes or recurring challenges among individuals seeking support in their spiritual journeys? The most common theme that shows up in my office...