Frontiers in Psychology
January 16, 2024
Gillie Gabay, Douglas A. MacDonald, Melanie Gillespie Rosen
The five articles that comprise the Research Topic were written by scholars from nine countries (i.e., Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, and US) and embody a range of contemporary research foci and methods. Walter and Hinterberger discuss the notion of self-organized criticality (SOC), which is a way of improving system performance through the ability of a...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
January 29, 2020
Douglas A. MacDonald, H. Friedman
Although he formally departed from the transpersonal psychological community in the 1990s, Ken Wilber was, and continues to be, one of the most important and influential theoreticians in this subdiscipline of psychology. Given his indisputable prominence and substantive contributions to transpersonal psychological thought, both Harris L. Friedman and Douglas A. MacDonald met with Wilber in...
Psychoneuroendocrinology
2020
H. Friedman, Douglas A. MacDonald, Nicholas J. L. Brown et al.
The recent paper by Le Nguyen et al. (2019) makes the extraordinary claim that loving-kindness meditation (LKM) slows biological aging. Unfortunately, its headline-grabbing title lacks compelling evidence. This paper shows telomere length (TL) decreased considerably in a control group over a very short time period, as compared to a LKM group, while a mindfulness meditation (MM) group was...
NeuroQuantology
September 2, 2011
Cheryl L. Fracasso, Zeno E. Franco, Douglas A. MacDonald et al.
2 citations
Harris Friedman has made a unique contribution to science by constructing the first explicitly transpersonal measure, helping to bring transpersonal psychology into the realm of more conventional science. He has also engaged in a wide range of professional activities during his career, including mentoring younger scholars and professionals. This paper consists of an introduction written by...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2009
Douglas A. MacDonald
55 citations
Though the relation of spirituality to self has long been recognized in established spiritual and religious systems, serious scientific interest in spirituality and its relation to identity has only started to grow in the past 20 years. This paper overviews the literature on spirituality and identity. Particular attention is given to describing and critiquing conventional and transpersonal...
International Journal of Yoga
January 2009
Douglas A. MacDonald, Harris L. Friedman
This article presents information on standardized paper-and-pencil measures of spiritual and transpersonal constructs that hold promise for use in yoga research. Nine instruments are discussed at length including the Assessment Schedule for Altered States of Consciousness, Ego Grasping Orientation, Expressions of Spirituality Inventory, Hindu Religious Coping Scale, Measures of Hindu Pathways,...