Transpersonal approaches
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| Key points | Argues that transpersonal approaches in therapy draw on diverse roots—green politics, the human potential movement, feminism, and mystical traditions—and that this vision, which Capra, Zukav, and Bohm claim is consistent with modern physics, represents a 'quiet revolution' in values away from materialism and egocentricity toward spiritual regeneration and more humanized living. |
Abstract
Transpersonal approaches within therapy have grown from a variety of roots and alliances. The green movement in politics joins loosely and intermittently with the human potential movement in psychotherapy, feminism and mystical traditions in religion. The result brings together arts, humanities and social sciences. Capra, Zukav and Bohm argue that this transpersonal vision is consistent with modern physics. It speaks of the ‘quiet revolution’, in values and actions, away from materialism, egocentricity and impersonal organizations, and towards spiritual regeneration and more humanized living. At one extreme, this ‘new age’ may hover among broken down caravans and bedraggled travellers. At another, it has been celebrated by smash-hit, million-seller writer-prophets on an international lecture circuit. It speaks of cooperation rather than confrontation, and the abandonment of attachment to conventional personal and social identity.