Transpersonal psychology has contributed significantly to the understanding of spiritual emergence and crisis by legitimizing non-ordinary states of consciousness and anomalous experiences. However, many prevailing frameworks continue to rely on intrapsychic explanatory models that lack clear evidential thresholds when confronted with experiences that appear to involve autonomous or external...
ABSRACTS For Part I: In the Catholic context, true mysticism requires supernatural origin. But the Church’s guidelines require a skeptical stance about direct divine causation unless reasonable confirmation is obtained. As material causes and human ones are both more knowable to us and more common, they must be considered and ruled out first, and then demonic sources, before a conclusion of...
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has once again prompted questions about consciousness, spirituality, and ethics. AI is, in fact, not neutral and reflects the values, assumptions, and blind spots of the societies that create it. Drawing on transpersonal psychology, this paper explores AI as an expression of the collective shadow, shaped by unexamined biases, power dynamics,...