Encyclopedia - Transpersonal Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Transpersonal Psychology - Criticisms Of Transpersonal Psychology
Criticisms of transpersonal psychology has come from several commentators. One of the earliest criticisms of the field was issued by the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transpersonal Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Transpersonal Psychology
transpersonal psychology (transpersonal counseling, transpersonal counseling psychology): Combination of Jungian psychology, psychosyn...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transpersonal Psychology: Parapsychology Dictionary On Transpersonal Psychology
Transpersonal Psychology: The study of experiences, beliefs and practices that suggest that the sense of self can extend beyond our p...   » Read the article

Article - Regression Therapy: The Three Faces Of Regression Therapy
The techniques of past life therapy have been proven effective for many specific conditions. Still, there are cases where results just do...   » Read the article

Article - Spirituality And Science: The Holographic Universe
This very, very exciting article actually gives a scientific theory behind many spiritual viewpoints and spiritual experiences, including...   » Read the article

Article - Reincarnation Karma: The Relation Between Reincarnation
We cannot discuss reincarnation sensibly without talking about the Laws of Karma. Karma is nothing other than the Universal law of caus...   » Read the article

Article - Past Life Therapy: The New Psychiatry - Past Life Therapy
Past Life Therapy is not for the weakminded or frail-hearted. It leads a person into the depths of his own psychological makeup, but the ...   » Read the article

Article - Past Lives: Breaking Past Life Vows And Pacts
Breaking Past Life Vows and Pacts Many of us have had past lives in monastic environments, religious orders, secret sects and so on. So...   » Read the article

Article - Death Bed Visions: Departing Or Death Bed Visions Faq
WHAT IS A DEPARTING VISION (OFTEN CALLED A DEATHBED VISION)? Most Hospice workers are very familiar with departing or deathbed visions,...   » Read the article

Article - Double Birthmarks: The Case Of Titu
Double Birthmarks: The Case Of Titu The case of Titu Singh that appeared in the London-based magazine Reincarnation International is one...   » Read the article

Article - Karma: Meaning And Definition Of Karma
Karma has quite a karma. Long after India's seers immortalized it in the Vedas, it suffered bad press under European missionaries who bel...   » Read the article

Article - Past Life: Past Life Or Attached Entity? - Five Diagnostic Keys
The techniques of past life therapy have been proven effective for many specific conditions. Still, there are cases where results just do...   » Read the article

Article - Simultaneous Lifetimes: Experience Of Simultaneous Lifetimes
Planet Earth is gradually entering into an area of more intensified Light, the human mass consciousness will evolve to the point where ma...   » Read the article

Article - Past Lives: Do Past Lives Influence Your Future?
I have enough trouble trying to break bad habits and unhealthy patterns in this lifetime. I don't need some past life mucking up the work...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afterlife: Encyclopedia Of Afterlife Mythology In Different Cultures
Afterife - Life After Death An encyclopedia of different cultures mythology  around afterlife, including : Adiri, Ama-No-Hashidate...   » Read the article

Article - Hinduism: What Is The Process Of Reincarnation?
What is the process of reincarnation? Carnate means flesh. The word reincarnate means to "reenter the flesh." We Hindus believe the s...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: What Is Soul?
There are two kinds of souls, viz., the individual soul or Jivatman or the human soul, and the Supreme Soul or Paramatman. The individual...   » Read the article

Article - Chakras: Manipura Chakra
Chakras: Manipura Chakra Manipura chakra, the solar plexus center, is where the fire element presides. The whole gamut of heated emotio...   » Read the article

Article - Science And Spirituality: Symbiosis Between Science Spirit
Science and Spirituality: Symbiosis Between Science & Spirit Some years ago, I called upon the great scientist Prof S Chandrasekhar ...   » Read the article

Article - Kundalini Yoga: Kundalini Yoga And The Far Reaches Of Human Development
Kundalini Yoga Thus far our soul psychotherapy has drawn from universal spiritual principles of gratitude, forgiveness, poignant imperm...   » Read the article

Article - Karma: Karma In The Flesh
 Often when we suffer from a physical condition either minor or severe, it is a link in a chain of sequences that began centuries ag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transpersonal: Encyclopedia - Transpersonal
The term Transpersonal is often used to refer to psychological categories that transcend the normal features of ordinary ego-functioning....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stanislav Grof: Encyclopedia - Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof (born 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering res...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychosynthesis: Encyclopedia - Psychosynthesis
Psychosynthesis is a form of transpersonal psychology which insists on integration, or synthesis of various psychological functions in or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Tart: Encyclopedia - Charles Tart
Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. (1937– ) is internationally known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness (particularly altere...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Breathwork: Encyclopedia - Breathwork
Breathwork usually refers to a type of Buddhist meditation in which one directs one's attention to one's breath. Sustained practice of br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs: Encyclopedia - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology that Abraham Maslow proposed in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation, which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unconscious Mind: Encyclopedia - Unconscious Mind
The notion of an unconscious or subconscious has been defined in a variety of ways over time, but in psychology it is considered to be th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critical Psychology: Encyclopedia - Critical Psychology
Critical psychology is both a critique of "mainstream" psychology and an attempt to apply psychology in more progressive ways (based, for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Allan Combs: Encyclopedia - Allan Combs
Allan Combs is a consciousness researcher, neuropsychologist, and systems theorist. He considers his most significant work to be the deve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kundalini: Encyclopedia - Kundalini
Kundalini is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning either "coiled up" or "coiling like a snake". There are a number of other translations ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - California Institute Of Integral Studies: Encyclopedia - California Institute Of Integral Studies
Integral organizations: Integral Institute Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies Integral University The California Institute of Integral Stud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Potential Movement: Encyclopedia - Human Potential Movement
The Human Potential Movement came out of the social and intellectual milieu of the 1960s and was formed to promote the cultivation of ext...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kundalini Yoga: Encyclopedia - Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini yoga is a meditative discipline, comprising a set of simple techniques that uses the mind, senses and body to create a communic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aqal: Encyclopedia - Aqal
Integral organizations: Integral Institute Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies Integral University In the Integral theory of Ken Wilber, AQA...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian De Quincey: Encyclopedia - Christian De Quincey
Philosopher and author Christian de Quincey, Ph.D. is a speaker on consciousness, spirituality and science at conferences and workshops i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transpersonal Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Transpersonal Psychology - The Development Of The Field
Among the thinkers who are considered to have set the stage for transpersonal studies are William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Abraha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transpersonal Psychology/counseling: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Transpersonal Psychology/counseling
Transpersonal Psychology / Transpersonal Counseling A school of psychology that aims at integrating Western science and Eastern though...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transpersonal Psychology (tp): New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Transpersonal Psychology (tp)
transpersonal psychology (TP) Movement stressing full sensory, psychic and spiritual development   (See also: Transpersonal p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transpersonal Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Transpersonal Psychology - Contributions To The Academic Field
Although any model of human development can only be understood as an intellectual abstraction of reality, transpersonal psychology has ma...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemical Hypnotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Alchemical Hypnotherapy
Alchemical Hypnotherapy (Alchemical work): Powerful transformative process developed by David Quigley. Its design is to assist clients...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Huma Transpersonal Bodywork: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Huma Transpersonal Bodywork
HUMA TRANSPERSONAL BODYWORK A method of bodywork that integrates subtle, articulate touch and verbal communication by combining the fo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transformational Counseling/therapy: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Transformational Counseling/therapy
Transformational Counseling / Transformational Therapy Counseling techniques associated with transpersonal psychology that are aimed a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Attitudinal Healing: Alternative Health Dictionary On Attitudinal Healing
attitudinal healing: regulation or maintenance of physical, mental, and/or spiritual health by taking up proper mental attitudes or a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs: Encyclopedia Ii - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs - Being Needs
Though the deficiency needs may be seen as "basic", and can be met and neutralized (i.e. they stop being motivators in one's life), self-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unconscious Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Unconscious Mind - Pre-freudian History Of The Idea
The idea originated in antiquity, and its more modern history is detailed in Henri F. Ellenberger's Discovery of the Unconscious (Basic B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unconscious Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Unconscious Mind - Controversy
Many modern philosophers and social scientists either dispute the concept of an unconscious, or argue that it is not something that can b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unconscious Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Unconscious Mind - Terminology
Somewhat related to the unconscious are nonconscious psychic events. The term nonconscious seems to be used in various ways. Some appear ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unconscious Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Unconscious Mind - Questions About Unconscious Mind
The subconscious is not directly accessible to ordinary introspection, but it is capable of being "tapped" and "interpreted" by special m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unconscious Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Unconscious Mind - Freud's Definition
Probably the most detailed and precise of the various notions of 'unconscious mind' - and the one which most people will immediately thin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs: Encyclopedia Ii - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs - Deficiency Needs
The deficiency needs (also termed 'D-needs' by Maslow) are: The physiological needs of the organism, those enabling homeostasis, take fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unconscious Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Unconscious Mind - Unconscious Mental Processes
(Note: The next section does confuse the two but has not been removed because of the interesting examples that it gives) The unconscious ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychedelic Psychotherapy - Methods
The effects of psychedelic drugs on the human mind are complex, varied and difficult to characterize, and as a result many different "fla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs: Encyclopedia Ii - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs - Counterpositions
While Maslow's theory was regarded as an improvement over previous theories of personality and motivation, it has its detractors. For exa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysticism: Parapsychology Dictionary On Mysticism
Mysticism: Religious or spiritual doctrines which argue that the human mind or soul can directly experience the divine. See also myst...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hypnoanalysis: Alternative Health Dictionary On Hypnoanalysis
hypnoanalysis: Method taught by the Infinity International Institute of Hypnotherapy, in Royal Oak, Michigan. Hypnoanalysis encompasse...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychedelic Psychotherapy - History
Psychedelic psychotherapy in the broadest possible sense of the term is likely as old as humanity's ancient knowledge of hallucinogenic p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humanistic Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Humanistic Psychology - Counselling And Therapy
Humanistic psychology includes several approaches to counselling and therapy, among these we find the categories mentioned by Aanstoos, S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transpersonal Psychologist: Magic Shamanism Dictionary On Transpersonal Psychologist
A movement in the field of psychology that is based on bringing in a spiritual or religious dimension to personal development and grow...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transformational Therapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Transformational Therapy
Transformational Therapy: versatile and powerful therapy technique developed at the Heartwood Institute, in Garberville, California. I...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Skydancing Tantra: Alternative Health Dictionary On Skydancing Tantra
SkyDancing Tantra: Westernized form of Tantra developed by Margo Anand, author of The Art of Sexual Ecstasy and the bestseller The Art...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kundalini: Encyclopedia Ii - Kundalini - The Kundalini Syndrome
Theorists within the schools of Humanistic psychology, Transpersonal psychology and Near-Death Studies describe a complex pattern of moto...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holotropic Breathwork: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Holotropic Breathwork
HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK Developed by Dr. Stanislov Grof, a psychiatrist working with people in non-ordinary states of consciousness, and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Healtheology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Healtheology
Healtheology: One of the fields of study offered by the American Institute of Holistic Theology, a correspondence school in Youngstown...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Karma: Dictionary Of Karma Terminology
A Dictionary of Karma Terminology. From "A Sanskrit English Dictionary", by Sir Monier Monier-Williams.      » Read the article

Dictionary - Reincarnation: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Reincarnation
reincarnation: "Re-entering the flesh." Punarjanma; metempsychosis. The process wherein souls take on a physical body throug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychosynthesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychosynthesis - The Egg Diagram
In essence, psychosynthesis can be best represented by "egg diagram". The Lower Unconscious The Middle Unconscious The Higher Unconsciou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hypnoanalysis: Alternative Health Dictionary On Hypnoanalysis
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Encyclopedia - Kundalini: Encyclopedia Ii - Kundalini - Pathological Kundalini
When practiced in a religious context, Kundalini is mostly beneficial and benevolent. However, examples exist of religious figures suffer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - California Institute Of Integral Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - California Institute Of Integral Studies - The Name
The "Integral" of the school's name has nothing to do with mathematical integrals, but translates a technical term from the writings of S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kundalini Yoga: Encyclopedia Ii - Kundalini Yoga - Underlying Philosophy
Sovatsky (1998) describes 'kundalini yoga' as an energetically guided yoga. This means that the discipline is informed by the Hindu under...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Healtheology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Healtheology
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Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Principles Of Psychology
Psychology - Mind and brain. Psychology does not necessarily refer to the brain or nervous system and can be framed purely in terms of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kundalini: Encyclopedia Ii - Kundalini - The Interpretation Of Kundalini
Two early western interpretations of Kundalini were supplied by C.W. Leadbeater (1847-1934), of the Theosophical Society, and the Analyti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Potential Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Potential Movement - Relationship To Other Fields
The movement is sometimes considered to be under the broader umbrella of the New Age movement. It is distinguished ideologically from oth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kundalini: Encyclopedia Ii - Kundalini - Kundalini Rising
According to Yogic terminology the force of Kundalini is supposed to be raised through meditative exercises and activated within the conc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aqal: Encyclopedia Ii - Aqal - Levels Or Stages
The concept of levels follows closely on the concept of lines of development. The more highly developed you are in a particular line, the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Integral Theory Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Integral Theory Philosophy - Other Thinkers
Many writers and artists who did not use the word "integral" to refer to their theories nonetheless are considered by theorists to act, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Criticisms Of Psychology
Although modern mainstream psychology largely attempts to be a scientific endeavor, the field has a history of controversy. Some criticis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kundalini Yoga: Encyclopedia Ii - Kundalini Yoga - Kundalini Yoga Practice
The practice of kundalini yoga consists of a number bodily postures, expressive movements and utterances, characterological cultivations,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roberto Assagioli: Encyclopedia Ii - Roberto Assagioli - Biography
Assagioli was a student of Sigmund Freud and introduced Freud's teachings to the medical fraternity in Venice in 1910. He is one of three...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humanistic Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Humanistic Psychology - The Development Of The Field
The humanistic approach has its roots in existentialist thought (see Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre). It is also sometimes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kundalini: Encyclopedia Ii - Kundalini - Kundalini And Physiology
Contemporary spiritual literature often notes that the chakras as described in the esoteric kundalini documents bear a strong similarity ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - History
Main article: History of psychology Rudolf Goclenius, a German scholastic philosopher, is credited with inventing the term 'psychology' (...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Parapsychology: Dictionary Of Parapsychology T-z
A dictionary of parapsychology. Please note that words in grey are hyperlinked to a corresponding archive with articles related to that p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humanistic Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Humanistic Psychology - Criticism And Debate
Criticism of Humanistic psychology has come from several commentators. Among these we find sociologist Roy Wallis who has questioned the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Scope Of Psychology
Psychology is an extremely broad field, encompassing many different approaches to the study of mental processes and behavior. Below are t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Research Methods
Psychology is conducted both scientifically and non-scientifically, but is to a large extent wholly rigorous. Mainstream psychology is ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aqal: Encyclopedia Ii - Aqal - States
A state is basically a level that is attained only temporarily. Once you have unlimited access to a state of consciousness, then it is a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Otto Rank: Encyclopedia Ii - Otto Rank - Influence
Rollo May, a pioneer of existential psychotherapy in the United States, was deeply influenced by Rank’s post-Freudian lectures and writ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Potential Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Potential Movement - Criticism
The movement has received criticism in two forms. The first is from researchers in psychology, medicine, and science who often dismiss th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deep Ecology: Encyclopedia Ii - Deep Ecology - Movement
In practice, deep ecologists support decentralization, the creation of ecoregions, the breakdown of industrialism in its current form, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Life-death-rebirth Deity: Encyclopedia Ii - Life-death-rebirth Deity - The Internal Approach
By the Victorian era, the solar-phallic ideas of Payne Knight along with the less risqué work of scholars like Max Müller had taken str...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Protosciences: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Protosciences - List
List of protosciences - A to H. Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field, combining aspects of astronomy, biology and geology, which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Journal Of Consciousness Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Journal Of Consciousness Studies - Books
From time to time, the Journal of Consciousness Studies will publish collections of thematically or topically related academic papers. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deep Ecology: Encyclopedia Ii - Deep Ecology - Development
Ecology has shown us that ecosystems exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium, and can absorb only limited change by humans, or any enviro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chakra: Encyclopedia Ii - Chakra - Scientific Basis
The idea of chakras as understood in Eastern philosophy does not exist in Western medical science. In Eastern thought, the chakras are th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aqal: Encyclopedia Ii - Aqal - Quadrants
Quadrant (UL) "I" Interior-Individual Intentional e.g. Freud Quadrant (UR) "It" Exterior-Individual Behavioral e.g. B.F. Skinner Quadra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Traumatic Incident Reduction: Encyclopedia Ii - Traumatic Incident Reduction - Metapsychology
Traumatic incident reduction - Background of metapsychology. "I may use the name of metapsychology for any psychology that leads behind...   » Read the article

Article - Alternative Health Sitemap I - T
This is a sitemap for Alternative Health - T . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word....   » Read the article