California Institute of Integral Studies
California Institute of Integral Studies librariesNot a member yet
1665 research outputs found
Sort by
Book Review: The Heart and Soul of Psychotherapy: A Transpersonal Approach Through Theater Arts by Saphira Barbara Linden (Editor)
Get PDFN
The Burden Carried by African American Men
No full textOne of America\u27s most provocative public intellectuals, Dr. Cornel West, whose writing weaves together the traditions of the Black Baptist Church, social justice, progressive politics, and jazz.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1033/thumbnail.jp
African Cetered Psychology
No full textThis conversation is part of the Expanding The Frame series of talks sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/diversityandinclusion-lectures/1000/thumbnail.jp
Mystical Poetry and Imagination: Inspiring Transpersonal Awareness of Spiritual Freedom
Get PDFThe author describes the philosophical and empirical aspects of an intuitive inquiry that explored 24 individuals’ (ages 30-80) mental images and creative expression in response to selected mystical poetry through a three-step procedure named Imaginal Resonance. Participants’ imaginal encounters with the poems inspired transpersonal awareness of spiritual freedom—a participatory, co-creative experience of self-awareness beyond personal concerns. Intuitive examination of the data and a hermeneutic analysis uncovered participants’ symbolic expressions of qualities such as awakening, personal development, introversion, expansion, connection, and liberation. Imaginal resonance facilitated a temporary glimpse of spiritual freedom, which was soon hindered by reasoning, questioning, commentary, comparison, anticipation, and judgment of the imagery and the experience as a whole. While the memory of the creative imagery lingered, the immediate experience of spiritual freedom diminished considerably with the return to discursive thought
Leadership Intelligence Before and After Participation in UGL Leadership Training
Get PDFThe aim of this study was to examine whether there was a difference in three types of leadership intelligence (spiritual intelligence, emotional intelligence, and rational intelligence) before and after participation in a specific leadership training course. Leadership intelligence was assessed with the aid of the Leadership Intelligence Questionnaire (LIQ; Dåderman, Ronthy, Ekegren, & Mårdberg, 2013). The study included 125 participants (M = 38 years, SD = 8), 82 of whom were women. The participants achieved significantly higher mean scores in the three types of leadership intelligence after participation in leadership training, than their mean scores before the training. This professional development program may have contributed to the increase in leaders’ mean scores in leadership intelligence, hopefully leading to a higher quality of leadership
Poetry and Nature
Get PDFPoetry reaches in and touches the felt sense of awe, of grief, of sacred space; it is the crucible within which loss sparks renewal and trauma transforms into initiation. The author offers two poems with narrative context to illustrate its role in her personal experience
Exploring Soul Loss Through Arts-Based Research
Get PDFArts-based approaches to scholarly inquiry are becoming increasingly common in qualitative research. The research presented here examines the psychospiritual impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), and a spectrum of soul loss was identified including soul wounding, soul withering, soul shattering, soul flight, soul theft, and soul murder. Part of the data set consisted of 24 mandalas by participants and the researcher, as well as one integrative drawing based on the use of imaginal resonance. The art data permitted a depth of insight into the psychospiritual impact of sexual abuse that went beyond what had been provided by other data streams. As such, concurrent mandala-making and imaginal resonance may be fruitful transpersonal methods for future researchers
Chinmayee and Mrinmayee
No full textThe Creative Feminine has been given two remarkable names in Hindu religious philosophy: Chinmayee and Mrinmayee. Chinmayee, derived from the two words chit and mayee, means one whose essence is consciousness and no other than consciousness. Mrinmayee, on the other hand, means the earthly woman. It is derived from the words mrit and mayee, mrit meaning the earth. Being made of mrit makes it mortal, subject to time, subject to form, generation, duration and further evolution or transformation. The twin concepts have given rise to questions like the possibility and nature of pure consciousness and embodied consciousness, how the two are related and if any one of the two takes precedence over the other in terms of being, becoming and spiritual worth. The divine feminine that the Hindus worship in many forms is acknowledged to be expressions of the same energy, but does being trapped in form make it vulnerable to errors and imperfections? Does it make the deity less worship-worthy? An analysis of the seemingly polarized concepts of Chinmayee and Mrinmoyee as portrayals of the divine feminine can lead us contemplate better how the Hindu mind has sought to realize the intricate relationship between form and matter, the eternal and the transient, the particular and the universal and finally, between being and becoming. It may also shed some light on the impact of embodiment on male/female polarizations and connections. Is acquiring form an essential step in the process of evolution of life and consciousness? Is it an aid or an obstacle in the gaining of mukti or the prized freedom often seen as emancipation from Maya
CIIS Today, Fall 2015 Issue
Get PDFThis volume is the Fall 2015 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ciistoday/1002/thumbnail.jp