TRANSPERSONAL
December 22, 2015 DOI: 10.4324/9781315787794-10 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that transpersonal experiences, whether drug or non-drug induced, are commonly understood as involving a finite set of describable regions, and that transpersonal therapists are particularly suited to cross-cultural work because transpersonal development fosters respect for all religious experiences, making the transpersonal approach a likely bridge to adequate therapy. |
Abstract
One of the most common concepts of the Eastern and the Western writers about transpersonal experiences, whether drug or non-drug induced, is that there is a finite set of regions which one can get into, each of which has its own describable nature. Psychological Society, normally a bastion of conservative respectability, one labelled as Consciousness and Experience, and the other one labelled as Transpersonal Psychology. It has been pointed out that there is a particular role for the transpersonal therapist in the field of crosscultural work, because of the increased respect for all religious experiences which comes with transpersonal development. It is the transpersonal approach which would be the most likely bridge for such people to use, in order to get the benefit of adequate therapy. The supervisor&s;s role in this can be to encourage the transpersonal therapist to look for such experience and to make his or her presence known to the relevant people.