Buddhism and Transpersonal Psychology
Elías Capriles
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies February 20, 2024 DOI: 10.24972/ijts.2023.42.2.35 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Buddhism |
| Keywords | Transpersonal psychology Epistemology Psychoanalysis Theology |
| Citations | 2 |
| Key points | Argues that transpersonal psychology must learn from Buddhism to distinguish among kinds of holotropic and transpersonal experiences and attribute different value to them. |
Abstract
In the debate between Freud and Romain Rolland the latter asserted the infants’ oceanic feeling to be saner than the adults’ limited sense of self, and that mystics recover the oceanic feeling without losing the learning achieved during socialization. Freud retorted that the oceanic feeling involved a sense of shelterlessness, and whoever went through derealization was psychotic and needed to be cured. However, the feeling of shelterlessness comes from the fledging sense of separation, and although derealization is a dangerous process, when it develops unhindered the result is greater sanity. So, Buddhism and TP agree in valuing transpersonal and holotropic experiences, but TP must learn from Buddhism to distinguish between kinds of holotropic and transpersonal experiences, and attribute different value to them: the formless realms of the highest tier of samsara, the neutral condition of the base-of-all in which the precious human possibility is squandered, Awakening, different types of nirvana...
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on buddhism, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental balance and well-being: Building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology. | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience | 1995 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives on Emotions and Well-Being | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Too Early to Tell: The Potential Impact and Challenges—Ethical and Otherwise—Inherent in the Mainstreaming of Dharma in an Increasingly Dystopian World | 2017 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| From self to nonself: The Nonself Theory | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
Citations in the library
Cites 4
- Identity and Spirituality: Conventional and Transpersonal Perspectives International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 2009
- Entheogens: True or False? International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 2003
- Transpersonal Perspectives in Psychotherapy Journal of Humanistic Psychology April 1, 1977
- Beyond Mind II: Further Steps to a Metatranspersonal Philosophy and Psychology 2006