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...
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...
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...