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Integral Counseling Psychology Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Fall 2012 issue of ICP Newsletterhttps://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integralcounselingpsychologynewsletter/1009/thumbnail.jp
Integral Counseling Psychology Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Spring 2012 issue of ICP Newsletterhttps://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integralcounselingpsychologynewsletter/1008/thumbnail.jp
CIIS Alumni Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the February 2012 Issue of the CIIS Alumni Newsletterhttps://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/alumninewsletter/1012/thumbnail.jp
CIIS Today, Fall 2012 Issue
Get PDFThis volume is the Fall 2012 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ciistoday/1017/thumbnail.jp
American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner
No full textFew thinkers from outside the United States have touched American culture in as many ways as Rudolf Steiner has. Agriculture, education, spirituality, and medicine—or more precisely, alternative practices in these fields—all bear clear marks of his influence, for those with eyes to see. Yet the very breadth of Steiner\u27s impact has perhaps made him harder, not easier, for observers of American culture to notice. American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner aspires to raise Steiner\u27s profile by digging into just one field of inquiry: philosophy. Before he became known to the world as a transmitter of clairvoyant wisdom, Steiner was an academic philosopher, editor of the scientific writings of Goethe and author of a foundational work in philosophy, The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern Worldview, published in 1894. American philosophy may have taken a wrong turn in the mid-twentieth century, when pragmatism gave way to a tradition of analytical philosophy that eschewed metaphysics as inherently meaningless and focused on the coherence or incoherence of linguistic structures. Nonetheless, many new sites of potential dialogue exist between Steiner and American philosophy.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/1070/thumbnail.jp
Transforming Self and Others Through Research: Transpersonal Research Methods and Skills for the Human Sciences and Humanities
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The Scale for Existential Thinking
Get PDFThis study introduced the construct of existential thinking, which we defined as the tendency
to explore the fundamental concerns of human existence and the capacity to engage in a
meaning-making process that locates oneself in respect to these issues. We also assessed
the psychometric properties of the 11-item “Scale for Existential Thinking” (SET). In two
studies, we found the SET to have unidimensional factor structure and good reliability
diagnostics in both student and adult samples. Moreover, the SET showed construct validity
by correlating with meaning in life, curiosity, and other existential variables. Furthermore,
we found meaning in life to mediate the relation of existential thinking and existential wellbeing,
which supports our conceptualization of existential thinking as a meaning-making
process
Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Facing the Problems of “Integral” Theory and Practice
No full textReconciling the Irreconcilable: Facing the Problems of “Integral” Theory and PracticeThe “integral” tradition as represented by Dr. Haridas Chaudhuri’s life and work gives the widest possible scope for life, spirituality and the human future. There is in it a spacious openness that affirms in every direction, offering a tolerance broad enough to reconcile, potentially, the deepest divisions in the world, and overcome barriers to individual and human advancement that in simple mental or rational terms might seem insurmountable.
The viewpoint seeks nothing less than the reconciliation of the irreconcilable (in Marxist terms the resolution of all contradictions). But here the very freedom and openness that seems intellectually so satisfying can present real problems in practice. With a philosophy that is based on a radical penchant for inclusion, how do we develop criteria for necessary exclusion? We want to extend diversity to its farthest boundaries, for instance, but what do we do, then, when we meet up with those who seem to oppose the notion of diversity itself? Maybe this is just the “integral” version of the problem of evil, but it is a serious matter and deserves serious consideration. It is all well and good to, as the Mother says, “bring conflicting ideas into a higher synthesis,” but what if the idea presented that opposes us comes in the form of a person with a gun who wants our life
Seven Quartets of Becoming A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo
No full textGroomed in a modern academic tradition and post-Enlightenment ideals of creative freedom and social critique, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) turned his attention to yoga and the limits of consciousness in its ability to relate to and transform nature. In the process, he documented scrupulously his experiments and experiences based on a synergistic existential framework of practice. Debashish Banerji correlates the approach to yoga Sri Aurobindo took in his diaries with his later writings, to derive a description of human subjectivity and its powers. Banerji constellates Sri Aurobindo\u27s approach with transpersonal psychology and contemporary lineages of phenomenology and ontology, to develop a transformative yoga psychology redefining the boundaries and possibilities of the human and opening up lines of self-practice towards a wholeness of being and becoming.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/1049/thumbnail.jp