Integral Transpersonal Journal
March 15, 2026
Martin James Peake
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,...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
March 15, 2026
Jeffrey Overall
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
March 15, 2026
Gordon Montgomery
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
March 15, 2026
Dorote Weyers-Lucci
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
March 15, 2026
Vaid Atwal Ranpreet Singh
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
March 15, 2026
Mojca Studen
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
March 15, 2026
Tom Crockett
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....
Integral Transpersonal Journal
March 15, 2026
Pier Luigi Lattuada
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 Transpersonal Journal
June 1, 2023
Xavier Bronlet, Pier Luigi Lattuada
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
2023
Xavier Bronlet
To analyze the phenomenology of the spiritual experience under the lenses of the grounded theory method, an initial questionnaire has been developed.
Integral Transpersonal Journal
September 1, 2021
Stanislav Grof
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.
Integral Transpersonal Journal
December 1, 2020
Fariba Bogzaran
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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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
April 1, 2020
K. Kilrea, Stéphanie Larrue
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
April 1, 2020
Magali Ollagnier-Beldame
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
November 1, 2019
Michael Doty
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
September 1, 2018
Steven Herrman
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
September 1, 2018
Pier Luigi Lattuada
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.
Integral Transpersonal Journal
September 1, 2018
Claudio Calcina, Carmela Sollecito, Giovanna Calabrese
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...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
April 1, 2018
Jevon Dangeli, Hennie Geldenhuys
“Holding The Space” is the metaphorical container for the therapeutic interaction between the coach or therapist and client. Although the held space is largely intuitive, transpersonal practitioners who wish to teach, apply and develop its practice are faced with the challenge of reproducing it consistently and intentionally. Some important aspects of the held space include energetic resonance...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
April 1, 2018
John Drew, Ho Law
This paper critically examines the organisational practice that relates to transpersonal psychology. Drawing upon major theories and findings in the broad area of transpersonal applications from a literature review, we argue that the values of the transpersonal are being communicated indirectly at work. They are subsumed in ‘spirituality’, which in turn is subsumed by the term ‘value’. We...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
September 1, 2017
Michael Doty
Consciousness and cognition have always been of interest to me and I have spent a large part of my life exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness and their effect on my thought processes. Many concepts in Integral Transpersonal Thinking resonated with my experience with non-ordinary states and it was through this resonance that I was able to make sense of terms that were initially...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
September 1, 2017
David Hester
ABSTRACT Creativity is a term reserved for the individuals with artistic abilities. Also, from a general standpoint creativity is the capacity to think in unusual ways. One researcher suggests divergent thinking results in an increased level of creativity and problem-solving style (Delcourt, 2013). For all intents and purposes creative is an ability in which the individual or group views a...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
June 1, 2016
Dwight Turner
Centred in the afro-centric spiritual belief that relationship to the other is a path to wholeness my research asserts that we all have an experience of being other. Combining heuristic research methods with creative techniques common to Transpersonal psychotherapy, my belief is that by working with one’s unconscious experience as the outsider metaphorically and symbolically it is possible to...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
December 1, 2015
Claudia Cornali
What follows is a tale by a woman, a psychologist, a soul who had a journey of transformation and grace through the flowing and hard path of suffering. In the following pages there are some facts which took place in the last days on Afghanistan soil, lessons learnt and the awareness of the value of teaching given by Biotransenergetics- the way with a heart- which were precious allies to...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
December 1, 2015
Giuliana Rasi
This research was conducted with a narrative method on a sample of four patients under-going BTE psychotherapy. It stems from the author’s love of “people’s stories”, in other words, clinical cases, which, according to the author, represent better testimonies than purely theoretical speculation and investigation. The survey is developed as a research starting from one question: what is the...