What led to an awareness of the multicultural and social justice movements?
JH: As I deepened my knowledge of the transpersonal domain, I realized that this domain represents a major area of multiculturalism and social justice. It is multicultural in that dominant U.S. culture is primarily based philosophically in materialism, and transmaterial experiences and beliefs are widely discounted, even though a substantial minority of people have and hold them. It is a social justice issue because people who have such experiences and hold such beliefs have tended to be disbelieved, discounted, demonized, or pathologized. It is my mission to educate about the transpersonal domain and, thus, hopefully, to expand understanding, acceptance, and support of transpersonal experiences and development.
