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Louchakova, O. 2005. On advantages of the clear mind: Spiritual practices in the training of phenomenological researcher. The Humanistic Psychologist, 33(2), 87-112.2005 •
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Via Kundalini: Psychosomatic excursions in transpersonal psychology2003 •
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Applying Michel Henry's philosophical framework to the phenomenological analysis of religious experience, this article introduces a concept of material introspection and a new theory of constitution of religious experience in phenomenologically material interiority. As opposed to ordinary mental self-scrutiny, material introspection happens when the usual outgoing attention is reverted onto embodied self-awareness in search of mystical self-knowledge or union with God. Such reversal posits the internal field of consciousness with self-disclosure of phenomenological materiality. As shown by the example of Vedantic self-inquiry, material introspection is conditioned on the attitude 'I " see " myself' and employs reductions which relieve phenomenological materiality from the structuring influence of intentionality; the telos of material introspection is expressed by self-transcendence of intentional consciousness into purified phenomenological materiality. Experience in material introspection is constituted by self-affection and self-luminosity of phenomenological materiality; experience is recognized as religious, due to such essential properties as the capacity of being self-fulfilled, and specific qualitative " what it's like " s. Drawing on more than 5000 live accounts of internal religious experience, it is shown that introspective attention can ha different trajectories, with temporal extension of material introspection producing different modifications of the spatial construct of the body and a variety of corresponding religious experiences.
The article presents a critical analysis of transpersonal psychology in regard to the absence of a transpersonal clinical theory. It examines connections of transpersonal psychology with modernism and postmodernism, and affirms phenomenology as a paradigmatic force and the epistemological tool necessary for the development of the foundational clinical category of the transpersonal self. The latter is juxtaposed with the concept of the states of consciousness in its practical applicability for clinical work. Cultural constructionism and feminist theory are suggested among the perspectives that should inform the development of the transpersonal self as a clinical category. Self is viewed as an internally interrelated system, capable of transformation after ego- transcendence and/or spiritual experience, as shown by phenomenological studies of the Prayer of the Heart. The article calls for the integration of those spiritual traditions positing the ontological validity of personhood, su...
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Phenomenology of Life from the Animal Soul to the …
Ontopoiesis and spiritual emergence: Bridging Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life and transpersonal psychology2007 •
The concept of ontopoiesis, articulated in the phenomenology of life of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (2000), may have potent implications for transper-sonal psychology. Transpersonal psychology grounds its major insights in the phenomenological inquiry into human consciousness ( ...
Two brief Late Antique religious texts, respectively by the monk Theophanis and by Monoimus the Arab, present an interesting problem of whether they embody the authors' experience, or whether they are merely literary constructs. Rather than approaching this issue through the lens of theory, the article shows how phenomenological analysis and studies of living subjectivity can be engaged with the text in order to clarify the contents of introspective experience and the genesis of its religious connotations. The analysis uncovers a previously unnoticed form of embodied introspective religious experience which is structured as a ladder with a distinct internal structure with the high degree of synchronic and diachronic stability. This approach also helps one identify the specific introspective techniques in the canonical and non-canonical literature of early Christian tradition, as related to the concepts of " theosis " and " kenosys " , as well as to suggest some neurological correspondents of religious cognition. In this paper, we will explore two brief Late Antique religious texts, respectively by the monk Theophanis and by Monoimus the Arab. These texts present an interesting problem of whether they embody the authors' experience, or whether they are merely literary constructs. Rather than theorizing around this issue, I shall show how phenomenological analysis and studies of living subjectivity can be engaged with the text in order to clarify the contents of introspective experience and the genesis of its religious connotations1. This approach also helps one identify the specific introspective techniques in the canonical and non-canonical literature of early Christian tradition, as well as to suggest some neurological correspondents of religious cognition. To illustrate the problem, here I cite a quotation from Theophanis's poem in the Philokalia, a compilation of Patristic sources written in Greek during the period from the 4 th to 15 th century. Philokalia was put together by St. Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain (1749-1809) and St. Makarios of Corinth (1731-1805)2 as a reference manual for Orthodox monastics. The poem entitled " The Ladder of Divine Graces which experience has made known to those inspired by God " begins as follows:
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Wall, K. & Louchakova, O. 2002. Evolution of consciousness in responses to terrorist attacks: Towards a transpersonal theory of cultural transformation. The Humanistic Psychologist, 30(3), 252-273.2002 •
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Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research
Tantric Alchemy of the Soul: A Philosophical Analysis and Synthesis of Jung and Kashmir Shaivism2016 •
Alvin Dueck (ed.), Indigenous Psychology of Spirituality Handbook, Palgrave, forthcoming
The "Wonder to Behold": Reflections on Phenomenological Research of Alienic Spirituality 12020 •
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ranspersonal Studies
The Gift of Life: Death As Teacher in the Aghori Sect2010 •
ranspersonal Studies
The Grofs' Model of Spiritual Emergency in Retrospect: Has it Stood the Test of Time?2010 •
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and Meditation2008 •
The problem of Religious Experience: Case Studies in Phenomenology
Introduction to the Two Volumes: From Phenomenological Theory to the Concretum of Religious Experiencing2019 •
Psychological Studies
Yoking Gnosis and Logos: On the Knowledge Function of Some Exceptional Mental States for Well-Being2013 •
Psychological Studies
Some Aspects of Empathy in the Process of Psychotherapy: Learning from Indian Tradition2012 •
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International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
The Alchemical Heart: A Jungian Approach to the Heart Center in the Upanisads and in Eastern Christian Prayer2014 •
Undivided: The Online Journal of Nonduality and Psychology
Self as Representation and Presence: A Psychological Approach to Self-Realization2016 •
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Reflections on Integral Methodological Pluralism2007 •
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Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Vol. 51, No. 1
Review of "Psychology Without Spirit: The Freudian Quandary"2019 •