Shadow, Self, Spirit by Michael Daniels

Author:Michael Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Transpersonal psychology, experience, connectedness, nature, spirituality, Jung, Maslow, Tart, human experience, peak experiences, mysticism, religion, holism, integral studies, self-actualization, self-actualisation, mystical experience, paranormal, parapsychology, myth, phenomenology, soul
ISBN: 9781845406912
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2016
Published: 2016-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

But what could an actual ‘transpersonal’ experience really mean? It’s not nearly as mysterious as it sounds ... You yourself can, right now, be aware of your objective self, you can observe your individual ego or person, you are aware of yourself generally.

But who, then, is doing the observing? What is it that is observing or witnessing your individual self? That therefore transcends your individual self in some important ways? Who or what is that? The observer in you, the Witness in you, transcends the isolated person in you (Wilber, 1995a, pp. 280–281).

Intuition and inspiration. There are times when we are surprised by insights and knowledge whose source is unknown, but appears to come from some deep place within the self. It thus appears that we have access to a larger or higher wisdom that is not directly accessible to the conscious mind. Such experiences may be experienced as a sense of a relationship with an inner Muse or Guide.

Guiding Impulse. This refers to experiences that seem to indicate a sense of direction, purpose or inevitability to our individual lives that we cannot consciously fathom. It is as if an unseen force is driving and directing our lives according to some prior agenda. Such experiences may be variously attributed to fate, divine prompting, or karmic fulfilment.

Groundedness. The sense of connection to a deeper, more authentic self. This is typically associated with an experience of clarity, wholeness, ‘rightness’ and harmony.

Embodiment. A form of groundedness in which the person experiences profound mind-body integration and physical presence.

Reincarnation experiences. Memories, desires, phobias, behaviours or physical characteristics apparently associated with a previous personal existence. Such experiences seem to carry the implication that co-ordinated aspects of human personality (rather than simply the animating soul, shade, spark, or subject of experience) can survive death and return to another body.

Near-death experiences. Typically characterized by an out-of-body experience followed by moving towards a loving spiritual light or presence. The NDE offers convincing experiential confirmation of some form of personal survival and also of the reality of our connection with the Divine.

Revelations. New knowledge that appears to be revealed or communicated by a higher or divine intelligence, often associated with ecstatic visions. Generally the source is experienced as an ‘other’ being (e.g., an angel or God) although there is usually a sense that I (or my group) have been specially ‘chosen’ or share a privileged relationship with this being.

Conversion / rebirth. Experiences, often triggered by a personal crisis, in which consciousness and personality undergo a profound spiritual transformation.

Longbody experiences. A term used by Aanstoos (1986) and Roll (e.g., 1997) to refer to our experience of a larger soul that extends beyond individual identity to include our deep connection to significant others, the land and possessions.

Species consciousness. Memories and other experiences of humankind’s morphic field, ‘akashic records’, or repository of collective karmic experience (see Bache, 2000). This is similar to Jung’s notion of archetypal experience but, according to Bache, such ‘memories’ reflect the actual experiences of specific persons and groups (i.e.,

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