“Humanistic psychologists wanted to study human experience
and what was most central to life and well-being, rather than what was easily
measured in the laboratory. One discovery in particular was to have an enormous
impact and eventually give birth to transpersonal psychology. Exceptionally
psychologically healthy people tend to have ‘peak experiences’: brief but
extremely intense, blissful, meaningful, and beneficial experiences of expanded
identity and union with the universe. Similar experiences have been recognized
across history and have been called mystical, spiritual, and unitive
experiences, or in the East, Samadhi and satori.”
“Transpersonal experiences may be defined as experiences in
which the sense of identity or self extends beyond (trans) the individual or personal to encompass wider aspects of
humankind, life, psyche, and cosmos.
... one interpretation of transpersonal
is that the transcendent is expressed through (trans) the personal.”
Walsh R, Vaughan F eds. Paths beyond ego. The transpersonal
vision. Penguin Putnam Inc, NY, 1993.
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