Center for Psychological Development
Transpersonalism: Ego Meets Soul by James E. Strohl, Ed.D.Journal of Counseling & Development, Fall 1998, Vol. 76, pp. 397-403. Over the last few decades, the transpersonal approach has emerged from mainstream psychology to address the effects of spirituality and consciousness on personal transformation and health and to explore the optimal levels of human functioning. Despite its increasing popularity, many mental health professionals lack basic knowledge of the transpersonal approach. For more than 25 years, increasing numbers of mental health practitioners have been using a therapeutic approach associated with a school of psychology known as transpersonal psychology. The term transpersonal means beyond (trans) the personal, ego or self. Transpersonal psychology Is concerned with the study of humanity’s highest potential, and with the recognition, understanding, and realization of unitive, spiritual, and transcendent states of consciousness.
Our Return to Interconnectedness, Oneness, and Harmony.
What is interconnectedness? Interconnectedness is a concept that has been known to humans throughout history, in one form or another. Interconnectedness is a network of things that depend on each other for their existence. When things are interconnected they lack a true separation from each other, and any distinction between parts is merely for convenience of description, not an accurate representation of the truth. Where can we see interconnectedness? Oneness is nearly a synonymous concept to interconnectedness. Human beings have progressively lost their sense of oneness and interconnectedness with each other and the Earth over the last few centuries. I would argue that lack of harmony is the cause of every major problem everywhere on the Earth. Following this analogy, nature comprises the majority of the global biological orchestra of being. All this was once known to our ancestors.
Lifestreams - the interconnecting Transpersonal consciousness web of all life
Seen and unseen Streams of Consciousness which create the relationships we experience allow information to flow from one to other. They are the Essence of Love which gives meaning and purpose to the Mirror that Life presents to us in our individual lives. The Web of Life is continually moving, changing shape, dimension, expanding and contracting, experiencing of itself through the collective experience. You cannot separate yourself from this collective experience. Every individual experience, response and reaction moves through the whole "web of all life" .. even the ones that are denied, repressed, hidden under codes of secrecy and silence. These become part of both the collective and our own personal experience - influencing the behavior (and the evolution) of the whole .. and all of its parts: the individual "you and I". Some of these Consciousness Streams we may be aware of. For those who are familiar with the term, this is, in part the principle of the hologram - but a whole lot more.
transpersonal and its nature: a plain man's Transpersonal Psychology journals
Personality and Individuality in the transpersonal relationship
The word that you are relates to all other words in all other languages of the Universe. A word has a meaning greater than its individual letters. What so many people do in theireveryday lives is hold onto one word or personal idea and see themselves as that individual word - or world. The Word as a Transpersonal Metaphor Transpersonal is the transformation of your singular view of you. identify your personality ... which is your limitation ... transcend the personal limitations you (and others) place on you ... any spiritual belief is a limitation One word written on a page can convey only so much of the truth of the message. Each word you read leads to another. in the beginning was the word Let us view the word as a human being. Next, looking at a sentence as a human being. But within that grouping, one word has one concentrated, tunneled meaning, a little more expanded than when it stood alone, but still not its complete scope of expression. Now see the word - human being as a paragraph.
Transpersonal
The transpersonal is a phenomenon or experience "in which the sense of identity or self extends beyond (trans) the individual or personal to encompass wider aspects of humankind, life, psyche or cosmos".[1] The term is highly associated with the work of Abraham Maslow and his understanding of "peak experiences", and was first adapted by the human potential movement in the 1960s.[citation needed] Among the psychological sciences that have studied[clarification needed] transpersonal phenomena are Transpersonal psychology, Humanistic psychology and Near-Death Studies.[citation needed] Among the forerunners to the development of transpersonal theory are the school of Psychosynthesis (founded by Roberto Assagioli), and the Analytical school of C.G Jung. Transpersonal states[edit] Transpersonal psychology considers[clarification needed] the concept of transpersonal states of awareness. See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Walsh, R. and F.
Transpersonal psychology
Issues considered in transpersonal psychology include spiritual self-development, self beyond the ego, peak experiences, mystical experiences, systemic trance, spiritual crises, spiritual evolution, religious conversion, altered states of consciousness, spiritual practices, and other sublime and/or unusually expanded experiences of living. The discipline attempts to describe and integrate spiritual experience within modern psychological theory and to formulate new theory to encompass such experience. Transpersonal psychology has made several contributions to the academic field, and the studies of human development, consciousness and spirituality.[3][4] Transpersonal psychology has also made contributions to the fields of psychotherapy[5] and psychiatry.[6][7] Definition[edit] Lajoie and Shapiro[8] reviewed forty definitions of transpersonal psychology that had appeared in academic literature over the period from 1968 to 1991. Development of the academic field[edit] Origins[edit] Dr.
