This essay offers a transpersonal reimagining of human knowledge through three archetypal gestures of consciousness: the analytical clarity of the Scientist, the contemplative insight of the Mystic/ Seer, and the metaphorical-resonant perception of the Poet. These are not professions, nor historical figures — not J.J. Thomson, Edison, or Homer — but qualities of knowing that dwell within every...
Kensho, a Zen concept denoting enlightenment, reflects a transformative realization of one’s true nature. This study explores the blockages to kensho using a mixed-methods approach, with a specific focus on Charles Berner’s self-inquiry protocol. The first phase of the research involved interviews with 13 participants who did not achieve a kensho during a retreat, despite optimal conditions...
The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), climate disruption, economic inequality, and cultural fragmentation has precipitated a metacrisis that profoundly threatens human meaning, agency, and identity. This paper introduces Holopsychology™ (HP) as a new integrative paradigm within transpersonal psychology designed to address this “soul crisis” by accelerating the development of human...
Transpersonal psychology concerns itself with experiences that transcend the individual ego and ordinary states of awareness. From this perspective, reported unidentified anomalous phenomena, (UAP) and psionic communication, whether spontaneous or cultivated, are understood phenomenologically, with emphasis placed on subjective meaning, transformative impact, and altered relationality to self,...
The prevailing Western perspective pathologizes failure, fostering dependence on egoic success metrics. In contrast, transpersonal psychology views failure as a necessary descent and a catalyst for postegoic identity formation. This review argues that curiosity and awe are the essential mediators that transform the ego-shattering experience of failure into a catalyst for transpersonal...
This theoretical paper proposes a Jamesian framework for clinically informed work with non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC) and develops three practical contributions. (1) It reinterprets William James’s “religious experiences” through radical empiricism as a disciplined method of describing lived meaning, value, affect, and relations as data, while bracketing metaphysical claims; on...
From Tradition to Triunity proposes an evolutionary framework for transpersonal healing grounded in Pier Luigi Lattuada’s Biotransenergetica (BTE) and its core Triunity model (0–1–2–3). Drawing on ancient spiritual traditions—including shamanism, yogic and alchemical paths, Christian mysticism, Sufism, and Buddhism—the article traces a shared archetypal intuition: healing as a process of return...
Integral Shamanism is a proposal for a rational mysticism that might meet the needs of an increasing number of people who describe themselves as spiritual but not religious or who experience the isolation and anxiety of a world in which there is nothing greater than the self or who feel the depression of disconnection from a world without awe, wonder, and transcendent mystical experiences....
To analyze the phenomenology of the spiritual experience under the lenses of the Grounded Theory method, an initial questionnaire has been developed and submitted to 216 respondents. The quantitative observations have been analyzed for their contribution to the model with R and using last generation multivariate data analysis leveraging on SmartPLS to determine the relationships between the...
Stanislav Grof describes the meaning of Holotropic states of conscience, the “states moving toward wholeness”, such as that kind of states which “traditional” psychology and psychiatry normally call altered.
Lucid dreaming is being conscious and aware while dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a form of meta-consciousness and reflective practice that calls in to question habitual behavior, fixed perceptions, core beliefs, and presuppositions. From an epistemological perspective, lucid dreaming could be considered as a way of knowing. The practice of lucid dreaming ultimately leads to the practice of lucid...
The work of Virginia Satir, a pioneer family therapist, is examined as a transpersonal approach to family therapy. Ways in which transpersonal perspectives may be applied in family therapy are explored in Satir’s notions of grounding and centering, the evolving and transcending concept of congruence using the Self/I AM concept in the Satir iceberg model, as well as the Satir conceptualization...
This paper provides a definition for gratitude and for trait gratitude. It also describes several useful measurement tools to study gratitude and states how gratitude relates to personality characteristics. In addition, current gratitude research is reviewed and future research questions are proposed. Not only is gratitude associated with well-being but also with sleep quality,...
Over the last twenty years, researches within cognitive sciences has massively grown in the field of the ways of knowing. For instance, in recent years, the paradigm of 4-E cognition suggests that cognition involves the whole body, as well as the situation of the body in the environment. This article argues that a first-person approach enriches the understanding of the ways of knowing in their...
The focus and principle interest of this essay, called The Listening Voice, is The Art of Transformation. My approach recognizes the overlap that clearly exists between the Alchemical Psychology articulated by C.G. Jung and James Hillman, and the native ancestral wisdom kept alive to this day in what we now call Shamanism. Both offer laws, principles and practices to guide the individual in...
Early in the life of transpersonal psychology, Tart (1972) proposed the use of altered states of consciousness, including those brought on by psychedelic substances, as research tools. Drawing on recent research on established transpersonal research methods and the neurological effects of psychedelics, this article proposes the use of Psychedelic-Informed Experiential Research to add depth and...
Christopher Bache’s work, Dark Night Early Dawn (2000) draws on his experiences in altered states of consciousness to illustrate how the individual psyche is deeply interlaced with the minds, emotions and life events of others across time and space. He suggests that this interconnectedness enables us to go beyond healing personal psychological pain, to help heal individual and collective...
This paper presents phenomenology of out- of-body experiences (OBEs) occurring spontaneously or pathologically triggered as well as other types of anomalous perceptual experiences such as near- death- experiences (NDEs), temporal lobe irregularities, and ictal autoscopic phenomena (IAP). The paper further presents a brief overview of some of the OBEs studied in both the healthy and pathological...
Dr. Goswámí, a Theoretical Quantum Physicist, shows how science and spirituality can be integrated by connecting between quantum physics and transpersonal psychology. Dr. Goswámí touches three concepts from quantum physics: unity consciousness, quantum self and purposiveness. 1. There are two domains of reality: that of possibility which is represented by waves of unity consciousness and that...
The philosopher Ervin László answers in his current talk to questions such as: “Is the world that we observe necessarily the world that exists?”, “What is matter and what is mass?”, “What is the universe?”, “What is the cosmos?”, “How do we come to perceive certain phenomena as solid objects?”, “Is there something objective and coherent in this world and if so, what is it and who is responsible...
This paper will show the results of a study into the experience of using ritual in contemporary psychotherapy*. Dr. Kress and Kerr have named this experience psycheritual as it is relevant for psychotherapy work and is a form of transition ritual which has transformative properties. Psycheritual can be defined as: an intentional act of communication between the conscious and the unconscious,...
The authors report about a clinical study conducted to evaluate the efficacy of Biotransenergetica, a transpersonal psychotherapy approach, in a general practitioner office. In addiction to prove the efficacy of Biotransenergetica this study demonstrates that there is no ostracism or rejection when research is conducted with rigorous methods. (This study will be published as a full article in...
In this essay the author gives a concise overview of the use of the word transpersonal in the life and writings of the Israeli Jungian analyst, Erich Neumann, who was born in Berlin Germany in 1905 and lived from 1934 until his untimely death, in 1960, in Tel Aviv. The paper provides readers with an overview of the correspondence that took place between Neumann and Jung from 1934-1959 and...
In this article, the author will discuss the specificities of transpersonal psychology, exploring how can offer an enormous potential to psychological science, encouraging it to widen its field of application and methods. In doing so the author will offer both some of the answers to the criticism by mainstream psychology, and those ontological and epistemological aspects on which it is based.