What is transpersonal psychology?
Transpersonal psychology is an area of scholarship and application based on people’s experiences of temporarily transcending usual identification with a limited biological, historical, cultural and personal sense of self and, at the deepest and most profound levels of experience possible, recognizing/being “some-thing” of vast intelligence and compassion that encompasses the entire universe. From this perspective ordinary, “normal” biological, historical, cultural and personal self is seen as an important, but partial expression of this much greater “something.” Transpersonal experiences generally have a profoundly transforming effect on the lives of those who experience them, inspiring them with an understanding of great love, compassion and non-ordinary kinds of intelligence, and also making them more aware of the limitations of their ordinary selves that must be worked with and transformed for full psychological and spiritual maturity. Because people ordinarily identify primarily wi
