By Gregg Lahood I divide transpersonal psychology into three broad epochs, and while they all overlap and have fuzzy borders three patterns can be teased out. Epoch one is the pretranspersonal movement, sometimes called the ‘‘psychedelic revolution,’’ which was/is highly politically motivated. With roots in the early 1950s and the Beat Generation (and earlier American Romanticism) this movement gathered momentum […]
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William James and Multiple Real Worlds
March 29, 2011 
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Excerpted from Lahood, Gregg. 2007. “One Hundred Years of Sacred Science: Participation and Hybridity in Transpersonal Anthropology”. ReVision. V. 29 No. 3. The participatory approach in anthropology owes much to the American psychologist William James, who argued that reality was subjective and that waking consciousness was one mode of being among other modes, which he […]
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Participation and Hybridity in Transpersonal Anthropology by Gregg Lahood ABSTRACT: The discipline of anthropology has been a major influence on transpersonal psychology. The transpersonal movement has now, in turn, influenced many anthropologists and opened new fields of research. In this article, the author explores the historical emergence and basic premise of transpersonally oriented anthropology and, […]
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March 22, 2011 0 Comments
The participatory turn can be seen as the second turn in the transpersonal movement’s theoretical commitments. The first turn began with the formalizing of transpersonal psychology in the late 1960s. The first turn or intervention was always concerned with weighty issues—the borders of the human psyche, the more-than-human potentials of that psyche, the origins (and later the evolution) of consciousness, and the levels of overlap […]
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