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...
The following is Part One of an interview conducted with Catherine Auman by Melissa Aberkane, a PhD student from the Sorbonne: Can you share what inspired you to engage in transpersonal psychology and how it has shaped your professional journey?After college I had been studying spirituality...
I have a close friend who works internationally as an ayahuasca shaman, facilitating groups and follow-up sessions. She told me a story of one time when a group she was leading was actively in the throes of the medicine, and some Native Americans showed up....
When we seek to carry the vision of Daniel’s “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 the...
Work is a word I associate with the creative, because I experience the writing I do as more of a craft than an art. Maybe the first draft or outpouring is more of an art, as it is unformed and messy, but writing for me...
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...
As I read Satprem and Van Vrekhem’s description of the yoga of the cells I felt conflicting feelings: an expansion of energy at the idea of physical immortality, and a disbelief that this is a possibility. I felt mistrust: Was The Mother’s description of the...
As I practiced the qigong set from the video, I first noticed that a sense of balance and grounding were established right from the beginning with the placing of the foot and the solid stance. There was attention paid to proprioception, where my body was...
Previously I maintained a daily hatha yoga practice that has now evolved into a few yoga stretches I do at the conclusion of my three-times-weekly gym workout. I really appreciated Matthews’s perspective on yoga as a moving meditation instructing how to be of this earth...
I practiced whirling when I lived in India. Every day at noon, the erotic, evocative music would enliven the meditation hall where the regulars and the beginners like me would gather. There was no formal instruction, and no one cared about doing it the “right”...