Journal of Scientific Exploration
June 30, 2025
Stanley Krippner
When I was asked to write an obituary for Charles "Charley" Tart, I knew it would be an emotionally wrenching experience because we had been close friends and colleagues for more than half a century.Although we did most of our current work in California, neither of us were born there.I was born in Wisconsin, and Charley was born on April 29, 1937, in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, and grew up in...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
July 1, 2012
Stanley Krippner
12 citations
Shamanic models of healing, counseling, and psychotherapy differ from Western models in that\nthey emphasize closeness to the natural world as well as to one’s body and life’s spiritual dimensions.\nShamanic practices reflect the ideals of harmony and knowledge. In shamanism, there is no division\nbetween “mind” and “body,” hence what Westerners refer to as “mental illness” is seen as part...
The Journal of near-death studies
2012
Stanley Krippner
Abstract: Spiritual experiences are a potent means by which a person's attitudes and behaviors may changed, usually (but not always) in benevolent ways. This article presents examples from various times and places, many from the annals organized religion. Research into spiritually transformative experiences is reviewed as is a means to measure spiritual content in written or verbal reports: the...
NeuroQuantology
March 4, 2011
Stanley Krippner, Joseph Sulla
6 citations
There has been little rigorous research on the content of ayahuasca sessions, despite the tribal use of this herbal concoction and the existence of three Brazilian churches in which ayahuasca is considered a sacrament. The Casto Spirituality Scoring System, a reliable measure designed to identify content in dream reports, was utilized to answer the following question: Is it possible to identify...
NeuroQuantology
March 3, 2011
Stanley Krippner, Cheryl Fracasso
2 citations
We are pleased to present this special edition on Dreams, Telepathy, and Various States of Consciousness. This edition includes a broad array of articles from well-known authors in the field that address topics such as anomalous experiences of mediums and advanced meditators, shamanic experiences, near-death experiences, experiences related to dreams and body wisdom, and the various ways that...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2010
Harris L. Friedman, Stanley Krippner, Linda Riebel et al.
25 citations
This chapter focuses on exploring various models of spiritual development. It first addresses philosophical dilemmas underpinning the concept of spiritual development by questioning whether these can be addressed without metaphysical assumptions embedded in religious worldviews and thus understood in any consensual way across different historical and cultural contexts. Traditional models of...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
June 1, 2009
Stephen Trichter, Jon Klimo, Stanley Krippner
73 citations
Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic plant brew from the Amazon basin used as part of healing ceremonies by the local indigenous people of the region for centuries, is now being consumed by growing numbers of people throughout the world. Anecdotal evidence and previous research suggest that there are spiritual effects experienced among participants who take part in ayahuasca ceremonies. The current...
Activitas Nervosa Superior
March 1, 2009
Stanley Krippner
1 citation
Abstract According to Division 30 of the American Psychological Association, “hypnosis” typically involves an introduction to the procedure during which a subject, client, or research participant is told that suggestions for imaginative experiences will be presented. The so-called “hypnotic induction” is an extended initial suggestion for using one’s imagination, and may contain further...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2009
Mark A. Schroll, Stanley Krippner, Miles A. Vich et al.
9 citations
Recollections of humanistic and transpersonal psychology’s origin’s morph into the pros and cons of humanistic/transpersonal oriented schools developing APA accredited clinical programs. This discussion dovetails with the question will ATP ever become an APA division, raising an interesting alternative for those of us considering a career in counseling: becoming a spiritual coach. Enter the...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2009
Mark A. Schroll, Stanley Krippner, Miles A. Vich et al.
3 citations
Recollections of humanistic and transpersonal psychology's origin's morph into the pros and cons of humanistic/transpersonal oriented schools developing APA accredited clinical programs.This discussion dovetails with the question will ATP ever become an APA division, raising an interesting alternative for those of us considering a career in counseling: becoming a spiritual coach.Enter the issue...
Transpersonal Psychology Review
September 1, 2008
Adam J. Rock, Stanley Krippner
Previous research concerning the relationship between the shaman’s conscious experiences and the ‘spirit world’ suggests that shamans are realists in the sense that they conceptualize their multi-layered universe (e.g., upper, middle and lower world) as real, objective and independent of the perceiver. However, these studies have neglected to analyze the logical coherence of a realist...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2008
Adam J. Rock, Stanley Krippner
6 citations
Attempts to elucidate the kinds of "thing" or "things" to which the term shamanic journeying image is referentially linked must grapple with two related questions: what is the fundamental nature of shamanic journeying images, and how might the origin of a shamanic journeying image be found? The first question is ontological, concerned with the nature and essence of shamanic journeying images....
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 2007
Paul Devereux, Stanley Krippner, Robert Tartz et al.
This article discusses preliminary data on advancing what we know about “sacred sites” and their effects on dreaming. Thirty‐five volunteers spent between one and five nights in one of four unfamiliar outdoor sacred sites in England and Wales. Another volunteer awakened them following the observation of rapid eye movement and asked for dream recall. The same volunteers monitored their own...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
June 1, 2007
Robert Tartz, Richard C. Baker, Stanley Krippner
This study investigated if dream content differences exist between male and female dreamers in England. One most recent dream report was collected from each of the 100 male and 100 female research participants during dream seminars and a dream research project held in England between 1990 and 2004. The Hall-Van de Castle System of Content Analysis (1966) was used to score each dream report....
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2007
Adam J. Rock, Stanley Krippner
37 citations
Block (2002) has argued that the multiplicity of meanings ascribed to consciousness is due\nto the erroneous treatment of very different concepts as a single concept. Block distinguished\nfour notions of consciousness intended to encapsulate the various meanings attributed to\nthe term: phenomenal, access, self, and monitoring consciousness. We argue that what is\ncommon to all of these...
World Futures
2006
Stanley Krippner
1 citation
Ervin Laszlo has used the ancient concept of the Akashic Records for the basis of his “Akashic Field” (A-field) model, one that has obvious implications for parapsychology, the scientific study of anomalous human–human and human–environment interactions, that is, “psi.” Experiments with “telepathic” and “precognitive” dreams are one example of parapsychological research that may fit the A-field...
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
2005
Stanley Krippner
2 citations
For several years, I have been interested in the Brazilian churches that use a particular mind-altering brew as a sacrament. This brew is referred to as "ayahuasca,""yage,""hoasca," etc., depending on the part of the country in which one encounters it. I am often invited to participate in evening ceremonies by the church elders, and one visit was especially memorable.
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2003
Allan Combs, Stanley Krippner
21 citations
In the spirit of William James, we present a process view of human consciousness. Our approach, however, follows upon Charles Tart’s original systems theory analysis of states of consciousness, although it differs in its reliance on the modern sciences of complexity, especially dynamical systems theory and its emphasis on process and evolution. We argue that consciousness experience is...
Kybernetes
December 1, 2002
Stanley Krippner, Allan Combs
7 citations
This systems model of dreaming consciousness examines the self‐organizing properties of the sleeping brain, offering a step towards reconciling brain‐based and content‐based attempts to understand the nature of dreaming. The brain can be understood as a complex self‐organizing system that, in dreaming, responds to subtle influences such as residual feelings and memories. The...
Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
2002
Stanley Krippner, Jan Weinhold
This investigation asked the question: “Are there significant content differences between male and female dream reports obtained in the United States?” Most of the 608 research participants provided dream reports (one per person) in response to a request from the senior author at dream seminars he gave between 1990 and 1996; the other dream reports were provided by friends and acquaintances of...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 1999
Kira Lynn Casto, Stanley Krippner, Robert Tartz
This investigation was designed to evaluate a new dream content measure, the Casto Spirituality Scoring System. Therefore, our research question was: "Can the spiritual content of dream reports be identified and measured?" We randomly selected 20 male and 20 female dream reports obtained in dream seminars in each of six countries. We added 20 dream reports from one U.S. female and one U.S. male...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 1996
Royal Earl Alsup, Stanley Krippner
2 citations
The mythology of evil has assumed renewed importance among diverse spiritual groups in the West and among scholars of the anthropology of consciousness. An investigation of Yurok mythology reveals that it is conceptualized asian "imbalance" between individuals (or groups) and parts of themselves, other community members, nature, and/or the Great Spirit. Yurok teaching stories, as well as...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 1994
Stanley Krippner
Enigmatic, anomalous dream reports challenge the Western philosophical worldview, hence they are ignored or derided by most mainstream philosophers and scientists. Nevertheless, there is compelling evidence from research in parapsychology that at least some of these reports have consensual validation and waking life consequences. Shamanic models of reality (which reflect shamanic philosophies)...
The Humanistic Psychologist
1994
David Feinstein, Stanley Krippner
2 citations
Abstract Altered states challenge an individual's established construction of reality, the personalized mythology by which one operates. Sometimes those altered states offer a glimpse into aspects of being that the mythology is unable to embrace. Experiences of this nature may challenge the prevailing mythic structure. This confrontation between the established construction of reality and the...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 1991
Stanley Krippner
2 citations
The anomalous experiences of shamans have been reported over the centuries, but only recently have they been subjected to rigorous investigation. Although interviews, reports, and informal observations can produce interesting material, their anomalous nature can only be determined by controlled observations and experimental studies. Examples of each are given and recommendations are made for...