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Three Epochs of Transpersonalism

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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The Participatory Turn and the Transpersonal Movement

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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