Transpersonal Knowing

Tobin Hart is Associate Professor in the Humanistic/Transpersonal Psychology Department at State University of West Georgia. Peter L. Nelson is a private research consultant in Melbourne, Australia. Kaisa Puhakka is Professor and Core Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California, and the author of Knowledge and Reality: A Comparative.

"…this volume is highly recommended for psychology students and scholars at all levels." — CHOICE"The contributors further thinking in the areas of philosophy, psychology, transpersonal and humanistic studies, and of science itself, in presenting useful expansions and extensions of ways in which humans can acquire, work with, and demonstrate fuller forms of knowledge and understanding of themselves, others, and the world at large." — William G. Braud, coeditor of Transpersonal Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Honoring Human Experience"This book is done with integrity and heart. The need for pathways to deep inquiry and transpersonal knowing are vital to the field of transpersonal psychology as it matures and as more people are opening up to a greater more integrated consciousness." — Ray Greenleaf, John F. Kennedy University"Provides an excellent dosage of philosophical and theoretical reflection with first-hand accounts. The broad range of topics covered and the articulation of subtle, often ineffable experience, are most admirable." — Daniel Deslauriers, California Institute of Integral Studies

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. An Invitation to Authentic KnowingKaisa Puhakka 3. Inspiration as Transpersonal KnowingTobin Hart 4. Mystical Experience and Radical Deconstruction: Through the Ontological Looking GlassPeter L. Nelson 5. Reflection and Presence: The Dialectic of AwakeningJohn Welwood 6. Dissolving the Center: Streamlining the Mind and Dismantling the SelfFred. J. Hanna 7. Illuminative PresenceZia Inayat Khan 8. Spiritual InquiryDonald Rothberg 9. Transpersonal Cognition in Developmental PerspectiveMichael Washburn 10. Transpersonal Knowledge: A Participatory Approach to Transpersonal PhenomenaJorge N. Ferrer 11. Deep EmpathyTobin Hart 12. The Love That Dares Not Speak Its NameJenny Wade 13. Service as a Way of KnowingArthur J. Deikman About the Contributors Index