Transpersonal psychologies.

Introduction - Charles T. Tart. 1 Science, states of consciousness, and spiritual experiences: the need for state-specific sciences - Charles T. Tart. 2 Some assumptions of orthodox, Western psychology - Charles T. Tart. 3 The physical universe, the spiritual universe, and the paranormal - Charles T. Tart. 4 Zen Buddhism - Claire Myers Owens. 5 The Buddha on meditation and states of consciousness - Daniel Goleman. 6 Yoga psychology - Haridas Chaudhuri. 7 Gurdjieff - Kathleen Riordan. 8 The Arica training - John C. Lilly and Joseph E. Hart. 9 Contemporary Sufism - Robert E. Ornstein. 10 Psychology and the Christian mystical tradition - William McNamara. 11 Patterns of Western magic - William G. Gray

'...One of the reasons for the slow growth and inadequacies of our [Western] psychology is that it is culture bound; it is linked to and frequently limited by the multitudes of (implicit) assumptions that create the consensus reality of the Western world in the twentieth century. It particularly fails to deal adequately with human experience in the realm we call the spiritual, that vast realm of human potential dealing with ultimate purposes, with higher entities, with God, with love, with compassion, with purpose. The "enlightened rationalism" and physicalism that have been so successful in developing the physical sciences have not worked very well in psychology....' --Introduction

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