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Tripping In The Moment: The Spiritual Journey Of Baba Ram Dass, Charles S. Hamilton
Tripping In The Moment: The Spiritual Journey Of Baba Ram Dass, Charles S. Hamilton
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Ram Dass, the iconic, countercultural, spiritual seeker, brought the wisdom of the East to those of us in the West through his many books and frequent, charismatic dharma talks. This view of his spiritual journey describes the transformation of Richard Alpert, clinical psychologist and product of the Western milieu’s often-shackling conventional expectations, into Ram Dass, the free, embodied soul who, through explication and example, and with witnessing attention, tries to guide us all to the always present abode of loving awareness. Ram Dass’s idea of self in existence was transformed: first, from a psychological object of clinical study, to a …
Book Review: Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics Of An Experiential Universe, Nicholas G. Boeving
Book Review: Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics Of An Experiential Universe, Nicholas G. Boeving
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
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Going Berserk, Running Amok, And The Extraordinary Capabilities And Invulnerability Of Battle Trance, Jenny Wade
Going Berserk, Running Amok, And The Extraordinary Capabilities And Invulnerability Of Battle Trance, Jenny Wade
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Battle trance, which evolved from instinctive defensive and offensive behaviors for close combat, involves socially transgressive processes like becoming-intense and becoming-animal that produce non-ordinary psychophysical states useful in fighting. Berserkergang (going berserk) is one of the best attested types of battle trance and the latest in a long history of Indo-European ecstatic warrior cults, but the state has been identified cross-culturally in consecrated holy amok warriors and in juramentado. Colonial interpretations for centuries have tended to denigrate such fighting styles, even though they involve discipline, spiritual dedication, and altruistic self-sacrifice, especially by falsely attributing such states to intoxication or insanity. …
The Origin (And Future) Of Transpersonal Psychology In An Open Scientific Naturalism, Glenn Hartelius
The Origin (And Future) Of Transpersonal Psychology In An Open Scientific Naturalism, Glenn Hartelius
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
A number of scholars well known within transpersonal psychology appear to be converging on open scientific naturalism as a philosophically and methodologically fruitful framework for transpersonal and related fields. This builds on the nascent open naturalism evidenced in the early years of transpersonal psychology, before it entered its metaphysical phase (ca. 1975 to 2000). Since it is necessary for science to assume some kind of world within which it is possible to do science, and not every aspect of that assumed world can be subjected to processes of empirical investigation, some of these necessary background assumptions are unavoidably metaphysical. However, …
The Luminous Night Of The Soul: The Relationship Between Lucid Dreaming And Spirituality, Tadas Stumbrys
The Luminous Night Of The Soul: The Relationship Between Lucid Dreaming And Spirituality, Tadas Stumbrys
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Lucid dreams, in which the dreamers are aware that they are dreaming, can be a source of spiritual and mystical experiences. This empirical study aimed to explore the relationship between lucid dreaming and spirituality, taking into account the role of mystical lucid dream experience, in an online sample of 471 respondents, 95% of whom had lucid dream experience and 65% were frequent lucid dreamers. The findings support the relationship between lucid dreaming and spirituality: spiritual transcendence was positively associated with both lucid dream frequency and mystical lucid dream experiences. Thus having recurrent lucid dreams and mystical experiences in them may …
Exceptional Human Experiences Among Pilgrims On The Camino De Santiago: A Study Of Self-Reported Experiences And Transformative Aftereffects, Miran Lavrič, Snežana Brumec, Andrej Naterer
Exceptional Human Experiences Among Pilgrims On The Camino De Santiago: A Study Of Self-Reported Experiences And Transformative Aftereffects, Miran Lavrič, Snežana Brumec, Andrej Naterer
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
The Camino de Santiago pilgrimage is an extraordinary endeavour that tends to trigger exceptional human experiences. Following our previous investigation of this topic, we conducted an online survey of 501 pilgrims in order to assess the frequency of different exceptional experiences (EEs) on the pilgrimage and their transformative aftereffects (TAs) in everyday life afterwards. More than 70% of the respondents reported improvement in terms of self-confidence, personal relationships and letting go of emotional “baggage”. The results show strong correlations between the observed EEs and the (consequent) TAs. We contend that walking the Camino de Santiago often produces exceptional experiences that …
The Varieties Of Spiritual States Triggered By Sex: A Systematic Review Of The Empirical Literature, Jenny Wade
The Varieties Of Spiritual States Triggered By Sex: A Systematic Review Of The Empirical Literature, Jenny Wade
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
This systematic review integrates the empirical evidence of spiritual experiences triggered by sexual activity, including studies by 10 authors. Despite venerable sexual meditative traditions of embodied spiritual practices, such as Hindu Tantra, Vajrayana Buddhism, and Taoism, empirical studies of sexual spiritual experiences are in their infancy. This review presents the range of sexual altered states experiences identified to date and how they qualify as spiritual experiences phenomenologically and in terms of their lifechanging effects. Seventeen distinct sexual-spiritual states have been identified across authors, with 4 others identified at significant levels in qualitative studies by individual authors. As an emergent area …
Intimations Of A Spiritual New Age: V. Socio-Cultural Bases Of A Globalizing Neo-Shamanism And Its Relation To Climate Crisis: Possibilities, Inevitabilities, Barriers, Harry T. Hunt
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Extending this series of papers on a futural spirituality, and considering the numinous as an inherent human capacity for an awe that confers a sense of all-inclusive meaning, communality, and humility, the question arises whether, in the face of a secularization of traditional world religions, globalization of a techno/capitalist economy of perpetual commodification of planet and person, and a widening sense of loss of meaning and higher purpose, some collective re-newal of the sense of the sacred might be possible —or not. While Jung, Toynbee, and Sorokin regarded such a movement as inevitable, bringing forward to the degree possible the …
Locating The Embodied Sense Of Self And Examining Its Relationship With Psychological Well-Being, Adam Wesley Hanley, Natalie Lecy, Robert Hanley
Locating The Embodied Sense Of Self And Examining Its Relationship With Psychological Well-Being, Adam Wesley Hanley, Natalie Lecy, Robert Hanley
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Westerners tend to localize their sense of self in the head, and, to a lesser degree, in the chest. However, single-point, localization studies of the self omit direct exploration of the size and shape of the embodied self. This study explored a) beliefs about the location and spatial distribution of the embodied sense of self, and b) whether individual differences in how the embodied self was represented were associated with psychological and subjective well-being. Results from a sample of 206 American adults confirm extant reports, indicating that the embodied sense of self is most often located in the head and …
Parapsychology And Transpersonal Psychology In Dialogue: Could These Two Movements Be Brought Into Better Alignment?, Harris L. Friedman, Dean Radin, Stanley Krippner
Parapsychology And Transpersonal Psychology In Dialogue: Could These Two Movements Be Brought Into Better Alignment?, Harris L. Friedman, Dean Radin, Stanley Krippner
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Parapsychology and transpersonal psychology were founded independently and have evolved separately as two distinct movements, although there is considerable overlap in both their content and in the interests of a number of scholars who are active in both areas. Harris Friedman, Co-President of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology, and Dean Radin, President of the Parapsychological Association, engaged in an informal discussion on the salient commonalities and differences between the two movements, focusing on exploring ways that the two could be brought into better alignment, such as including more transpersonal approaches within parapsychological studies and vice versa. Stanley Krippner, whose seminal …
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the Fall 2016 / Winter 2017 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Ciis Today, Spring 2016 Issue, Ciis
Ciis Today, Spring 2016 Issue, Ciis
CIIS Today
This volume is the Spring 2016 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the Spring 2016 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the Spring 2016 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the Spring 2016 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Considerations And Caveats For The Use Of Placebo Responses In Clinical Care: Minding The Matter Of Mechanisms–And Morality– In Medical Treatment, James Giordano
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
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Harnessing The Placebo Effect: A New Model For Mind-Body Healing Mechanisms, Gabriel Crane
Harnessing The Placebo Effect: A New Model For Mind-Body Healing Mechanisms, Gabriel Crane
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
The placebo effect is a phenomenon that has confounded Western medicine and research for over sixty years. While the field has historically and continues to be rife with misconceptions and confusion, recent research aims to reignite the art of medicine by turning the effect's underlying mechanisms to therapeutic benefit. However, researchers may not have the appropriate theoretical framework to do so. While significant progress has been made in identifying a number of the placebo effect's underlying mechanisms, conceptual deficiencies hinder application of advances in the field. In part, this is because the placebo effect unearths a number of problematic philosophical …
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the November-December 2015 Issue of Integrative Health Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the Fall 2015 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the Fall 2015 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Ciis Today, Spring 2015 Issue, California Instituite Of Integral Studies
Ciis Today, Spring 2015 Issue, California Instituite Of Integral Studies
CIIS Today
This volume is the Spring 2015 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the April-May 2015 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the Spring 2015 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the January 2015 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the Winter 2015 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the October 2014 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the October 2014 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the Summer 2014 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter, Ciis
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
This is the June 2014 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.