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Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Winter 2015 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integrative-healthnewsletter/1029/thumbnail.jp
CIIS Alumni Association Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the September 2015 Issue of the CIIS Alumni Newsletterhttps://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/alumninewsletter/1001/thumbnail.jp
California Institute of Integral Studies--Catalog 2015-2016
Get PDFThis is the 2015-2016 catalog of courses, staff and faculty for the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/academiccatalogs/1025/thumbnail.jp
Psychedelic Drug Therapy
No full textPsychologist and researcher at NYU, Doctor Tony Bossis, reviews his work as part of the recent renaissance of psychedelic research.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1031/thumbnail.jp
Steiner and Kindred Spirits (Spi Edition)
No full textRudolf Steiner is frequently viewed by those familiar with his teaching as unique and separate from other spiritual teachers of our modern era. While, Steiner is thought by anthroposophists to be a scientist and a philosopher, as well as an interpreter of events depicted in Christian scriptures, he is nevertheless generally ignored by scientists and philosophers, as well as by both liberal and fundamentalist scriptural scholars and theologians. In this book, Robert McDermott―the editor of American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner, which investigates Steiner\u27s philosophy in the context of American philosophers―places Steiner and his work in the context of a variety of spiritual teachers and teachings, both Western and Eastern. In doing so, the reader is guided to new perspectives that show the similarities and contrasts between Steiner\u27s Spiritual Science and a number of Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and secular spiritual worldviews. The kindred spirits in this book include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, C. G. Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, Martin Buber, Sri Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore, Gandhians, feminists, ecologists, and more. Steiner went as far up the spiritual ladder as any modern individual but, unlike some enthusiasts for Steiner, McDermott is also impressed by other religious thinkers and spiritual practitioners who have been helpful to those of us in need of encouragement and guidance and whose vistas and insights may not have been researched or explained by Steiner.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/1057/thumbnail.jp
The Mariner’s Way of Individuation: An Insight into the Jungian Principle of Acausality
Get PDFAs a Romantic poet who was especially interested in the workings of the mind, Coleridge, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, has dealt with notions, ideas, and images that lend themselves to a Jungian reading, specifically from the perspective of the principle of synchronicity which is to be the focus of this analysis. The theory of synchronicity, being the principle explaining the concurrence of psychic states and external events which bear no causal relationship, could be employed to bring up a novel interpretation of the poem. The causally unrelated but meaningful succession of events in the course of the poem, finding expression through the archetypes, helps the Mariner get a deeper insight into the universe and further his movement in the process of individuation—the quest for self-realization. The synchronistic events of the poem take place on a bed of poetic expressions of the primordial images mediating between the Mariner’s psyche and the world outside, resulting in his inner growth through the process of individuation, wherein, the Mariner comes to the realization that nature and he form an inseparable part of a greater system which is unified through the flow of an invisible spirit—the collective unconscious
Japan Dreaming
Get PDFArt has its own voice, and demands that the artist listen, feel, and give it birth. This account relates the artist\u27s experience of creating two works in a series entitled, Japan Dreaming, works that evoke Japanese scrolls, fabric space dividers, paper streamers, kimono, and gates into sacred space
Singing and Participatory Spirituality
Get PDFThe author describes and examines participatory knowing, participatory spirituality, and psycho-spiritual growth and transformation as experienced by a group of accomplished singers through their singing and the process of learning to sing. In so doing, his study brings rich contemporary research narrative as evidence of the key elements of the participatory revisioning of transpersonal theory. In this article the author reports parts of the results and conclusions of an intuitive inquiry that explored the peak experiences, plateau experiences, and consequent transpersonal growth of nine classically trained singers, including the researcher, and one advanced practitioner of sacred chant. All participants had had significant transpersonal experiences through singing, as they engaged in a participatory, connected, and often passionate knowing that involved not only the opening of the mind, but also of the body, heart, and soul in relationship with a community and connection with their environment
CIIS Today, Spring 2015 Issue
Get PDFThis volume is the Spring 2015 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ciistoday/1000/thumbnail.jp