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May 25, 1994 Robert M. Torrance
This chapter states that with the gradual spread of Lamaist Buddhism northward to Mongolia and Siberia, not only those who adopted (and adapted) the new religion, but others who presumably retained ancestral shaman practices, were deeply influenced by it. Given the wide diffusion of a clearly ancient shamanic complex from Lapland eastward to Greenland (hence far beyond Buddhist influences),...
Philosophy East and West October 1, 1993 Daniel Barbiero, Robert K. C. Forman 188 citations
This is a paperback reprint of a collection of contributed essays about mysticism and philosophy. It challenges the widely accepted interpretaion of mystical experience that received its fullest expression in two volumes edited by Steven T. Katz: Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis (OUP 1987) and Mysticism and Religious Traditions (OUP 1983). According to Katz and his colleagues, mystical...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 1993 Michael Winkelman
This paper examines some of the principal theories in transpersonal psychology on the nature of the evolution of human consciousness within the context of anthropological perspectives of ecological and neoevolutionary adaptation and cultural relativism. New perspectives on the evolution of consciousness are provided by the work of transpersonal psychologists. These transpersonal perspectives...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology July 1, 1993 John F. Cogswell
This article reports research in "Walking in Your Shoes," an empathic way of deeply relating to one another. Stating one's intention to be another person and walking with that intention, one is able to experience a subject's energetic style, how he or she is in the world, and what abilities are used to cope. The awarenesses that arise as one walks with no conscious intention of imitating or...
Journal of Couples Therapy May 10, 1993 Joseph M. Rosenthal
SUMMARY This paper presents formulations and case studies that indicate the relevance of Buddhist meditation practice for the practice of psychotherapy. Samatha-vipassana meditation, the core of all Buddhist methods is described as a training in the cultivation of specific therapeutic talents that arise as concomitants of bodhicitta, awakened experience.
January 24, 1993 J. Steyn
After analysing Transpersonal Education as a view espoused by the New Age, the conclusions reached were that * Transpersonal Education is a spiritual event, an experience of a new awareness characterised by the incarnation of the sacred; further, * the teacher should bring about this awareness in the child by spiritual transformation through karma, darma and rituals such as yoga and meditation....
The Humanistic Psychologist 1993 Fred J. Hanna 20 citations
Abstract The phenomenological reduction and the writings of Husserl and Heidegger are considered in the context of transpersonal mystical experience. The author shows how the practice of the phenomenological reduction spontaneously delivered both Heidegger and Husserl into transpersonal realms. An experiential examination of their writing reveals the great similarities between their own ideas...
Archive for the Psychology of Religion 1992 Ilma Szász 2 citations
Mantra is a word or a short saying, a short prayer repeated in order to fix the distractions of the mind. Under mantra meditation I mean the repetitive prayer, the aim of which is meeting with God, and involving the whole person at prayer. (I do not speak about the simplified techniques aiming only at healing or success and using only parts of the capacity inherent in this meditation...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 1992 R Jevning, R K Wallace, M Beidebach
While for centuries a wakeful and tranquil state or experience variously called "samadhi," "pure awareness," or "enlightenment" had been said to be a normal experience and the goal of meditation in Vedic, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions, there was little known about this behavior until recently, when the practice of "transcendental meditation" (TM) became available for study in Western...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 1992 Michael Stoeber
As we have seen in our introduction to mysticism and in Eckhart's theology, mystics claim in certain experiences to encounter a powerful consolatory force which significantly reduces or eliminates the negative force of evil. In such experience evil is often referred to as a non-reality, non-being or nothingness which no longer has power or influence upon the enlightened mystic. As R. C. Zaehner...