transpersonal
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“Holotropic breathwork provides access to biographical, perinatal and transpersonal domains of the unconscious and thus to deep psychospiritual roots of emotional and psychosomatic disorder,” the Grofs wrote in their 2010 book on the technique.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025
The claim is thus that the dynamics of all inanimate matter in the universe correspond to transpersonal mentation, just as an individual’s brain activity—which is also made of matter—corresponds to personal mentation.
From Scientific American • May 29, 2018
But from all these approaches – including humanistic therapy, interpersonal therapy, transpersonal therapy, transactional analysis and so on – it’s generally agreed that one emerged triumphant.
From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2016
Her colorful paintings and drawings of radiating zigzags and interweaving lines and stripes are sensuously handmade but feel as if they are animated by some sort of transpersonal psychic energy.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2014
Sure, that's exactly the kind of unconventional scheduling you'd expect from a place that advertises workshops in such arcana as "ecopsychology" and "transpersonal process."
From Time Magazine Archive
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