4 papers in the library · 55 citations · publishing 2009-2024
Front Psychol January 16, 2024 Gillie Gabay, Douglas A. MacDonald, Melanie Gillespie Rosen
Editorial: Methods & applications in theoretical and philosophical psychology: research methods in the study of consciousness.
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...
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...