An introduction to transpersonal psychology and its amazing scope, as well as its pros and cons. Transpersonal psychology can be defined as “the psychological study of transpersonal experience and their correlates. These correlates include the nature, varieties, causes, and effects of transpersonal experiences and development, as well as the psychologies, philosophies, disciplines, arts, cultures, life-styles, reactions, and religions that are inspired by them, or that seek to induce, express, apply, or understand them.”1

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1. Roger Walsh and Frances Vaughan, Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision (New York: Penguin, 1993), p. 3-4.