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Ayurvedic Psychology: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science
Get PDFAyurveda is a holistic medical system based on ancient Indian texts that utilizes natural treatments, botanical medicines, and lifestyle and dietary practices to promote healing of the body, mind, senses, and spirit. Interest in Ayurveda has grown in the United States over the last two decades, as consumers, therapists, scientists, and health regulators have recognized its holistic and preventative benefits. According to Ayurveda, every human being is composed of a unique proportion of these elemental energies, a foundational theory in Ayurveda known as tridosha. The three doshas (vata, pitta, kapha) represent three psychobiological constitutional types that govern all human characteristics, activities, and patterns of health and illness. Preliminary genomic research suggests there may correlations between the doshas and certain genetic patterns. Other early research applying doshic theory to various populations shows similar promise. Ayurvedic treatments are also being tested for efficacy both in medical and psychological applications, but it is often examined in ways that isolate individual therapeutic substances or treatments in a way that is antithetical to the holistic approach of Ayurveda. This approach might be more fruitfully paired with a holistic approach to psychology such as that offered by transpersonal psychology
Ketamine Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Focus on its Pharmacology, Phenomenology, and Clinical Applications
Get PDFMeant to be an authoritative guide for psychiatrists and others interested in understanding and applying ketamine psychedelic psychotherapy (KPP), this paper focuses on its pharmacology, phenomenology, and clinical applications. Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic widely used by physicians and veterinarians in the United States. In addition to its anesthetic and dissociative properties, ketamine also has a multitude of other psychological and pharmacological properties, which include analgesic, sedative, neuroprotective, anxiolytic, antidepressant, stimulant, euphoriant, and hallucinogenic effects. The literature on the clinical application of KPP is comprehensively reviewed, practical advice for using KPP is given, and the pharmacology and phenomenology of ketamine-induced psychedelic experiences are explored, including in relationship to transpersonal healing and possible iatrogenic consequences of misuse of KPP
Catching the Wave: Aligning to the Soul’s Purpose
No full textDoing any activity is energizing when it is imbued with a sense of purpose; when that purpose is informed with an accurately intuited sense of direction from one’s depths, the result is wise action. This presentation investigates “purpose” as an energetic phenomenon (presence) and as an energizing factor in human psychology and behavior. It also examines the qualitative differences between – and consequences of –pursuing ego-determined purposes, and those informed by a conscious effort to align one’s life with a deeper understanding of What Is
Integral Counseling Psychology Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Fall 2014 issue of ICP Newsletterhttps://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integralcounselingpsychologynewsletter/1005/thumbnail.jp
California Institute of Integral Studies--Catalog 2014-2015
Get PDFThis is the 2014-2015 catalog of courses, staff and faculty for the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/academiccatalogs/1026/thumbnail.jp
Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy
No full textExploring the meeting of mystical and philosophical theology, Partakers of the Divineshows that Christian philosophical and contemplative practices arose together and that throughout much of Christian history, philosophy, theology, and contemplation remained internal to one another. Through an engagement with contemporary theologians and philosophers of religion, both analytic and continental, and through careful re-readings of historical figures such as Anselm and Nicholas of Cusa, Jacob Sherman presents a contemporary argument in favor of the antique, participatory tradition of contemplative philosophy. Sherman demonstrates that retrieving this more venerable vision of the relation of philosophy, theology, and contemplation to one another provides theologians and philosophers of religion today with a way forward beyond many of the stalemates that have beset discussions about faith and reason, the role of religion in contemporary culture, and the challenges of modernity and postmodernity.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/1041/thumbnail.jp
Psychedelic Research Resurrected: The Contributions of Stanislav Grof
No full textThis presentation will discuss Stan Grof’s impact on the resurgent field of psychedelic research, particularly in regard to the development of the psilocybin treatment of advanced-cancer anxiety studies that were conducted in the early 2000s. After decades of repression, we are on the threshold of demonstrating that the field Stan and his colleagues courageously started many years ago still has remarkable contributions to make
Stanislav Grof\u27s Contributions to FDA Drug Development Research with Psychedelics
No full textSince 1990, FDA has been willing to approve research with psychedelic drugs. Currently Phase II studies have been conducted or are underway for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), LSD, psilocybin or MDMA for end-of-life anxiety, MDMA for autistic adults with social anxiety, psilocybin for addiction, psilocybin as an adjunct to meditation, and other uses. These psychedelic psychotherapy sessions are being conducted using insights and approaches that Stan Grof has helped develop during his extensive experience with LSD administered in a therapeutic context. Some of the key lessons from Stan that MAPS has incorporated into our therapeutic approaches in our FDA-approved studies include the theoretical model, the non-directive approach, the male/female co-therapist teams, the extensive focus on preparation and integration, and the openness to transpersonal experiences. Furthermore, several of our Principal Investigators have been directly trained by Stan and Christina Grof
Expansive Paradigms for an Expanding Universe: An Appreciation of the Work of Stanislav Grof
No full textStanislav Grof\u27s insights, as expressed in his writings and workshops, have given new depth and meanings to the field of psychotherapy, whether assisted by the medium of psychedelics or by holotropic breathwork. His observations and theories have also made significant contributions to our social-historical understanding of the intractable roots of war, criminality and domination; and connected to the new visionary psycho-cosmologies whose depth and scope we are only beginning to comprehend
Implications and Consequences of Post-Modern Philosophy for Contemporary Transpersonal Studies III. Deleuze and Some Related Phenomenologies of Felt Meaning: Psychosis and Mysticism as Inherent “Structures of Thought”
Get PDFThere is a surprising confluence in the philosopher Deleuze, the psychoanalyst Bion, and phenomenological psychologist Gendlin on what Deleuze terms the immediate “sense” of understanding and Gendlin calls “felt meaning.” Beneath its more differentiated propositional articulations, all three understand this phenomenon as a felt sense of constantly shifting coherence and incoherence, and based in often tacit metaphoric, figural, and/or synesthetic processes. For Deleuze and Bion, in particular, psychotic thought disorder is understood as the exaggeration of this incoherence potential within all felt meaning. Correspondingly, the expansion or enhancement of the felt coherence aspect of ordinary thought becomes the basis for the mystical states of consciousness that become a major concern of the later Bion and Deleuze. The Indian spiritual teacher Krishnamurti, known for his use of an ordinary language of deceptive simplicity to describe spiritual enlightenment, offers a striking confirmation of Deleuze and Bion on numinous states as latent within all felt meaning