Transpersonal Psychology

[@BradPurfeerst]

Very nicely done. I am a psychedelic practitioner that actually comes from traditional therapy (i.e. unearthing the harms that cause false beliefs and maladaptive/dysfunctional behaviors) but who now incorporates Transpersonal. Not because it is intellectually or personally agreeable to me, but because plant medicines like psilocybin reveal these archetypal "truths" to the client. Certainly, MDMA can help them compassionately uncover their trauma, but the mushroom will show them that the Universe was there waiting for them and loving them at the moment of their birth, if they are suffering from an attachment wound. In this way, it is the altered states that reveal to the client the transpersonal idea, if that is what they need to heal. If the therapist is trying to lead them there thru Eastern practices, with some sense of superiority because their aim is self-actualization, then they are doing something besides therapy but still using the word. The point of all psychological therapies should be to resolve woundedness, IMHO.

[@edheldude]

As a student of Grof: check out Internal Family Systems therapy, and of course Stan Grof's works (e.g. The Way of the Psychonaut).

[@barryodonnell8398]

I was just interested as to why you don’t mention Assagioli in your list of influential figures - in particular Psychosynthesis which I imagine fall under the Transpersonal psychology umbrella? Just interested in any reasons for not including his contributions? Thanks

[@irenahabe2855]

Thank you!

[@gmeta2611]

nice basic intro thx😀

[@dedclownsRfunny]

Absolutely love Trans. Psychology. Excellent intro with neutral bias or at least self-awareness of any bias, which to me is an embodiment of the Trans Psych ideology.

[@Magik1369]

The Self is no illusion. Anyone who would say or think so is deluded and has not made the journey or fell into solipsism and other nonsense. Did you happen to miss the hundreds of Self symbols in the world's wisdom literature? The Self is known by direct experience. There is the One and the Many and to omit one side of the co-emergent Unity of Being is to miss the entire point of existence. Self as illusion is a delusion. The archetypal journey of spiritual awakening is all about the healing, integration, and realization of the Self.

[@brittanyferera5177]

True, but also, The Self becomes integrated with the Divine Creator. We are all one. Unity. The parts all come together to create a whole.

[@edheldude]

I think you misunderstand because different traditions use different terms. Buddhists' self is lower case self and means our personality structure. The Self is the mind's eye, the base of our consciousness, the spiritual connection/conduit, and that's where meditation will take you. The Buddhists would probably call capital S Self _bodhicitta_ (the awakened mind).

[@HarpOfDaghda]

​@@brittanyferera5177Visistadvaita. 🙏🏻🕉