Shamanic Experience -- psychosis and transpersonal psychology

Transpersonal Psychology meets Psychosis, the Spiritual Emergence of the Transpersonal, Transcendent or Shamanic Reality

 

The colloquial expression for a Psychologist or Psychotherapist is Shrink and this is rather apt because this profession of the mindis preoccupied with dealing with Thought Forms (or Tulpa's) and shrinking Transcendent (Shamanic) Consciousness into tiny little boxes..

Psychosis

However, the Shamanic Experience IS the experience of Reality - happening in the time and space of NOW - this moment. It is the Transpersonal experience of Spirituality.

Psychosis, for so many, is the experience of the Transpersonal, Transcendent or ShamanicExperience (as opposed to the illusion of therealm of the Logical Linear Mind). It cannot be rationalized, labelled or put into nice little boxes - even by Transpersonal Psychology..

Intrinsically, to the rational mind, the Shamanic Experience is labelled as madness, because it transcends what we (in the illusion ofnormal Personality Consciousness which we call "awake") see as reality.

Symptoms of Spiritual Emergence

A doorway has opened and, rather than taking 500 milliseconds for the Tulpic Thought Process of what some call their minds toanalyseand discern and respond to what is going on, one enters a space of pure awareness of the moment - and of what is happening in that moment .. all of it.

For some, it can be likened to being "awake" and yet having the experience of a "lucid dream" .. perhaps with many eventstumbling over one another in the space of "no-time".

The Shamanic or Transpersonal Experience is one of Transcendent Consciousness.

For others, it can be like being aware of every thought of everyone around you. Maybe you might stun someone by speaking out loud (withoutthinking about it) exactly what they were thinking in that moment.

Boundaries dissolve. It is only the personality that has boundaries.It can be confusing for the rational mind to suddenly become aware that sounds have colours, tastes and smells. It can be a little scary to seewhat some call ghosts - which are nothing more than disembodied Tulpa's.

Some may hear voices and others may have visions. (at least, this is what they may call them)

Transcendent Reality

The Shamanic Experience cause revelations from the past, because, in reality, past is present now. Everything exists in consciousness.

The Shamanic Experience - because it is Transcendental of any boundary - is the experience of everything that may be goingon in your Reality in this moment .. and it will continually change, not is logical steps and stages, but as the flow of many layers, dimensions of a continuum.

Transcendent Reality is what happens when the mind no longer stops, processes and thinks. It is this Linear Function of Mind which is Transcended :no thought. Only with the experience of this space can one truly understand the difference between Reality and Illusion.

Reality and Illusion

What the mind does with these experiences is the conditioned response of the brain - the product of some Tulpa which has beencreated in a deluded attempt to keep these experiences away.

If you have one single attachment, it will be exposed in Transpersonal Consciousness.

If you have one single unresolved personality, Imprint or thought product or form in your psyche or physical body, it will come to your Shamanic Awareness.

Again, what the mind does with these experiences depends on its conditioning but, remember, the minds reaction will be basedon the conditioning to the reality it has had imprinted into it.

The mind conditioned to seeking understanding through rationality will break down in the face of the Transpersonal or Shamanic Experience.Reality is still present and will not go away in the minds vain attempt at holding onto its illusion.

Transpersonal Psychology

Consider the question: who is the "I" that is the observer, who is the "I" that seeks understanding.Then I might add: "Who is the I that is addicted to the pain and suffering that you are submitting yourself to" ... All of these add up to your ego.

In the Shamanic Experience, you become the Expression of what is passing through you. You are awareness aware of your awareness. Awake.

You can hold on to the experience or, you can allow the awareness of the moment to give way to an experience of a new moment.If you hold onto the experience, you will never experience the next moment - only your reaction to it.

If you choose Transpersonal as a Psychology for your mind or your education, then, once again, having been shrunk, you have gone back to sleep.


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Charles Tart

Charles T. Tart (born 1937) is an American psychologist and parapsychologist known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness (particularly altered states of consciousness), as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, and for his research in scientific parapsychology. He earned his Ph. D. in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963.^[1]
His first books, Altered States of Consciousness (1969) and Transpersonal Psychologies (1975), became widely used texts that were instrumental in allowing these areas to become part of modern psychology.^[1]

Contents  [hide]  1 Biography 2 Books authored or edited 3 Audio Interviews 4 Awards 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Biography

Charles Tart was born in 1937 in Morrisville, Pennsylvania and grew up in Trenton, New Jersey. He was active in amateur radio and worked as a radio engineer (with a First Class Radiotelephone License from the Federal Communications Commission) while a teenager. As an undergraduate, Tart first studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before transferring to Duke University to study psychology, on the advice of Dr Rhine of Duke. He received his doctoral degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963, and then received postdoctoral training in hypnosis research with Professor Ernest R. Hilgard at Stanford University.^[1]
He is currently (2005) a Core Faculty Member at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (Palo Alto, California) and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (Sausalito, California), as well as Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, where he served for 28 years, and emeritus member of the Monroe Institute board of advisors. Tart was the holder of the Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and has served as a Visiting Professor in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as an Instructor in Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of Virginia, and a consultant on government funded parapsychological research at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International).^[1]
He was also integral in the theorizing and construction of the automatic ESP testing device the ESPATEACHER machine that was built at the University of Virginia. He supports Joseph McMoneagle's remote viewing claims that McMoneagle has remote viewed into the past, present, and future and has predicted future events.^[2]
As well as a laboratory researcher, Tart has been a student of the Japanese martial art of Aikido (in which he holds a black belt), of meditation, of Gurdjieff's work, of Buddhism, and of other psychological and spiritual growth disciplines. Tart believes that the evidence of the paranormal is bringing science and spirit together.^[3] His primary goal is to build bridges between the scientific and spiritual communities, and to help bring about a refinement and integration of Western and Eastern approaches for knowing the world and for personal and social growth.
In his 1986 book Waking Up, he introduced the phrase "consensus trance" to the lexicon. Tart likened normal waking consciousness to hypnotic trance. He discussed how each of us is from birth inducted to the trance of the society around us. Tart noted both similarities and differences between hypnotic trance induction and consensus trance induction. He emphasized the enormous and pervasive power of parents, teachers, religious leaders, political figures, and others to compel induction. Referring to the work of Gurdjieff and others he outlines a path to awakening based upon self-observation.

[edit] Books authored or edited

• Altered States of Consciousness (1969), editor. ISBN 0-471-84560-4
• Transpersonal Psychologies (1975)
• On Being Stoned: A Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication (1971)
• States of Consciousness (1975)
• Symposium on Consciousness (1975) With P. Lee, R. Ornstein, D. Galin & A. Deikman
• Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception (1976)
• Psi: Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm (1977)
• Mind at Large: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception (1979, with Harold E. Puthoff & Russel Targ)
• Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential (1986)
• Open Mind, Discriminating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilities (1989)
• Living the Mindful Life (1994).
• Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality (1997). Examines the relationship between parapsychological abilities and human's spiritual nature, and was voted the March 1998 best metaphysical book selection of Amazon.Com.
• Mind Science: Meditation Training for Practical People (2001).
• States of Consciousness (2001). ISBN 0-595-15196-5
• The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together (2009)

He has had more than 250 articles published in professional journals and books, including lead articles in such scientific journals as Science and Nature.

[edit] Audio Interviews

• Audio Interview Series on Buddhist Geeks
• Charles Tart MP3 audio - from Shift in Action, sponsored by Institute of Noetic Sciences. It appears that the site requires a paid membership ($10/mo) to have access to their audio files.
• Interview with Charles Tart explores his research findings and personal conclusions about spirituality, meditation and transpersonal psychology.
• Renée Scheltema's film "Something Unkwnown" (2009) features interviews with Charles Tart.^[4]

[edit] Awards

• Distinguished Contributions to Scientific Hypnosis, The Society of Psychological Hypnosis (Division 30 of the American Psychological Association), 2001.^[5]
• Abraham Maslow Award (given to an individual for an outstanding and lasting contribution to the exploration of the farther reaches of human spirit), The Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of APA), 2004.^[6]
• Charles Honorton Integrative Contributions Award, The Parapsychological Association, 2008.^[7]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Brief Biographical Data". paradigm-sys.com. April 10, 1998. http://www.paradigm-sys.com/ctt_bio.cfm. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
2. ^ The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time and Predictions for the New Millennium by Joseph McMoneagle, Foreword by Charles T. Tart, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., 1998
3. ^ The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together by Charles T. Tart, New Harbinger Publications, 2009
4. ^ http://www.somethingunknown.com/scientists.php Scientists featured in the film "Something Unkwnown..."
5. ^ UC Davis News & Information :: Charles Tart
6. ^ Abraham Maslow Award
7. ^ Dr. Charles Tart Receives Award | Sofia University

[edit] External links

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• Charles Tart, UC Davis web site
• T.A.S.T.E. Online journal of transcendent experiences that scientists have reported.
• Full text of selected articles by and about Tart

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Transpersonal Chakras

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Transpersonal chakras are a line of several chakras (various authors describe either three, five, or six) that many yogis and meditation practitioners say are located sequentially above the crown chakra (itself located on the top of the head) to a distance above the head of as far as about 18 inches (about 0.5 meters).^[1]

Contents  [hide]  1 Transpersonal chakras in Asian philosophy 2 New Age three transpersonal chakra system 2.1 The soul star chakra 3 Function of the transpersonal chakras 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Transpersonal chakras in Asian philosophy

Transpersonal chakras are seen in Hinduism, in Vajrayana Buddhism, in Daoism and in qigong, and in New Age thought as several chakras above the head, as noted above. The transpersonal chakras in Hinduism have Sanskrit names, in Varjayana Buddhism they have Sanskrit and Tibetan names, and in Daoism and in qigong they have Chinese names. There are five transpersonal chakras above the head beyond the usual seven that are mentioned and named in the esoteric texts of Vajrayana Buddhism.^[2]

[edit] New Age three transpersonal chakra system

Using the New Age names, the lowest transpersonal chakra (the soul star chakra) is said to be located about 4-5 fingers above the head, the middle transpersonal chakra (the God portal chakra) is said to be located about 12 inches above the head and the highest transpersonal chakra (the grand portal chakra) (sometimes called the stellar portal chakra} is said to be located about 18 inches above the head.^{[3] [4]}

[edit] The soul star chakra

The soul star chakra is a chakra that many meditation practitioners say is located above the crown chakra. The soul star chakra is said to be located about 4-5 fingers above the head. This chakra is associated with spiritual connection between individuals, as well as connection to one's Higher Self.^{[3] [4]}

[edit] Function of the transpersonal chakras

The highest transpersonal chakra is called the "grand portal" because it is believed by some mystics, magicians and yogis to provide access for soul travel into other parts of this universe, into alternate universes, to higher planes of existence, to the past or future history of our own timeline or alternate timelines via time travel forward or backward in time, or to other cosmoses.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

[edit] See also

• Chakra
• Daoism
• Hindu tantra
• New Age
• Neo-Paganism
• Subpersonal chakras
• Transpersonal psychology
• Vajrayana Buddhism

[edit] References

1. ^ Wolf, Elias: Das Buch der 28 Chakren, Schirner Verlag, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-89767-257-X
2. ^ Tansley, David V. Subtle Body: Essence and Shadow New York: 1984 Avon (Art and Cosmos series--Jill Purce, Editor)
3. ^ ^{a b c} Wingmaker’s New Age Neo-Pagan website (based in Christchurch, New Zealand) on the Chakras:
4. ^ ^{a b c} Map of extended chakra system according to Wingmaker’s New Age Neo-Pagan website (based in Christchurch, New Zealand) (includes “earth star” chakra, "soul star" chakra, "God's head" chakra and “grand portal” chakra):
5. ^ Twitchell, Paul (1969) Eckankar: The Key to Secret Worlds, Forward by Brad Steiger. Illuminated Way Press, ISBN 1-57043-154-X
6. ^ A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Easy Journey to Other Planets (1970) International Society for Krishna Consciousness
7. ^ Satprem Sri Aurobindo, or the Adventure of Consciousness (explanation of the integral yoga philosophy of Sri Aurobindo as interpreted by The Mother) (reference for the functions of the transpersonal chakras; although Sri Aurobindo does not use the "New Age" names cited above for the transpersonal chakras, he describes them by their function) (1964)
8. ^ See the 1937 book Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon for a science fiction account of such a journey via soul travel; although the book does not mention anything about chakras, the book does mention the spiritual range that various alien races that are encountered within the Milky Way Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds are capable of, which is roughly equivalent to the concept of "chakras".