Transpersonal Psychology Review
2019
John Rowan, Law Ho
This paper is a critique on transpersonal psychologists in terms of their experience and practices. Rowan observed that most participants in transpersonal psychology conferences had not embodied the experience of Nondual – the highest level ofconsciousness in the realms of the transpersonal according to Wilber (2000). Rowan further pointed out that most great religious traditions made the...
March 29, 2018
Paul Miller Stephen, John Rowan
In this chapter, the authors explore the place of love in both humanistic and transpersonal therapy. They consider its place in human development and everyday living, therapy and client–therapist encounter, and in spiritual growth. Transpersonal therapy focuses on the development of being, spirituality, and takes a holistic view of the individual. Humanistic and transpersonal therapies are...
December 22, 2015
John Rowan
One of the most common concepts of the Eastern and the Western writers about transpersonal experiences, whether drug or non-drug induced, is that there is a finite set of regions which one can get into, each of which has its own describable nature. Psychological Society, normally a bastion of conservative respectability, one labelled as Consciousness and Experience, and the other one labelled...
Transpersonal Psychology Review
2009
John Rowan, Michael Daniels, David Fontana et al.
This is an edited, verbatim transcription of a three-hour dialogue on the work of Ken Wilber between John Rowan and Michael Daniels, mediated by David Fontana and chaired by Malcolm Walley. The dialogue was held at the 11th British Psychological Society Transpersonal Psychology Section Conference at Cober Hill, Scarborough, on 15 September 2007. Nothing has been added, apart from reference...
Self & Society
July 1, 1989
Petrutska Clarkson, Vivian Milroy, John Rowan
(1989). The Journal of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology. Self & Society: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 176-177.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
April 1, 1983
John Rowan
20 citations
The concept of self-actualization is central to humanistic psychology. But what is this self that is to be actualized? Maslow, who introduced the term, thought that it belonged to the realm of Being, most easily accessed through peak experiences. It was essentially something transcendent, and to contact it was to partake of something like a mystical experience. But Maslow, in company with many...