INTRODUCTION

PART ONE VISIONS OF THE WHOLE

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1. History of the transpersonal movement, by Marc-Alain Descamps	19
2. The search for synthesis, by Roger Walsh	34
3. The pre/trans fallacy, by John Rowan	60
4. Transpersonal theory and perennial philosophy, by Jorge N. Ferrer	72
5. From the shadow to the light, by Aura Lucia Mera	93
6. The retroprogressive model, by Salvador Paniker	108

PART TWO PSYCHOTHERAPY

7. Spiritual questions in psychotherapy, by Frances Vaughan	129
8. Helping from the edges of life: A psychedelic therapist's perspective, by Richard Yensen	145
9. On psychotherapy and the path of the search, by Manuel Almendro	158
10. Psychosomatic therapies, by Javier Castillo	206
11. Transpersonal and transcendent sexuality, by Ramon V. Albareda and Marina T. Romero	218

PART THREE ONTOLOGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS

12. Transpersonal, by Jorge Carvajal Posada	249
13. Memory and individuation, by Enrique Galan Santamaria	253
14. Disciplines of consciousness and behavioral sciences: A comparison and evaluation, by Roger Walsh	264
15. Evolution of consciousness and planetary survival: Psychological roots of human violence and greed, by Stanislav Grof	288
16. The development of consciousness, by Ana M. Gonzalez Garza	315
17. Fear: Its original lost dignity, by Norberto Levy	352
18. Physiology and experience of the shamanic journey, by Claudio Naranjo	367
19. Estats no ordinaris de consciència en la vida ordinària, per C. Martínez Bouquet	381

PART FOUR EAST/WEST

20. Two Asian psychologies and their implications for Western psychotherapies, by Roger Walsh.	399
21. How to end suffering, by Dhiravamsa	421
22. Suffering, psychoanalysis and Buddhism, by Jacques Mabit	439

PART FIVE SHAMANISM AND ENTHEOGENS

23. Shamanism and the recovery of the shadow, by Jose M. Poveda	465
24. The woman without head and the man without heart, by Jacques Mabit	472

PART SIX TRANSPERSONAL MUSIC

25. Music and the emotions, by Silvia Nakkache	497
26. Music and spirituality or energy and consciousness, by Fernando Diez	513

About the authors

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