As Richards (2014) points out, the mainstreaming of psychedelics has opened the door for scientific researchers to explore and measure the mystical and ineffable. This will offer transpersonal psychology peer-reviewed empirical research studies to buoy up our own studies. Drugs offer reliability in a way...
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...
I am familiar with solitude and silence. I cultivate it. One of my practices is that I get up every morning between 4-5 so that I can be alone for several hours before my husband or the rest of the world wake up. The silence...
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...
Tibetan Tantric Buddhism has long had a reputation of including sexuality as part of its spiritual techniques, whether these practices were literal or imaginary. Because of this, when looking for a tradition that is sex positive and may include techniques that induce transpersonal or sacred...
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...
It seems from the research that transpersonal experiences have been seen as healing for millennium, perhaps since the beginning of time, in all cultures except the rational, patriarchal Western ones. Transpersonal experiences were treated with great awe and respect, and the cultures that formed around...
Transpersonal experiences may be held as frightening, painful, overwhelming, or shattering to some people, and thus affect their lives in negative ways. Anyone who naively believes “there is no such thing as a bad trip” has never been on a locked psychiatric ward observing people...