Tag: transpersonal
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Unintended Consequences
We are naive to believe that principle and rationality determine human conduct, and when properly educated, persons are accountable. We punish for conscious deception, fraud, and malicious intent. Otherwise by consensual agreement and common law, persons are not held accountable for unintended consequences. In a sense, the law has facilitated in rendering unconscious the evil…
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Some Contrasts among Transpersonal Psychological Theories: Wilber, Washburn, Russell, and Epstein.
By Leland van den Daele In his seminal book The Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley illustrates how religious experience, cross-culturally and historically, gives rise to commonalities in attitudes, values, and orientation toward the world. In the subsequent literature in the burgeoning area of transpersonal psychology, the idea that the mystic worldview embodies an organized whole with…