2017 Schedule
Event Title
How Does a Whole Person Psychology Span Spiritual Vision and Neuroscience?
Location
Namaste Hall
Start Date
21-4-2017 8:15 PM
End Date
21-4-2017 9:00 PM
Description
This conversation looks at the relationship between metaphysics, phenomenology and neuroscience in the context of a whole person framework. Transpersonal psychology has struggled from its inception with the challenge of being branded as a metaphysical system--essentially a New Age religion. While Ferrer's participatory thought offers a corrective to this for transpersonal, the situation is different for Integral Yoga Psychology, which is explicitly rooted in Aurobindonian Integral Yoga--clearly situated within a spiritual tradition. How does a whole person approach incorporate or honor such a tradition and remain a psychology?
Event Type
Panel Discussion
How Does a Whole Person Psychology Span Spiritual Vision and Neuroscience?
Namaste Hall
This conversation looks at the relationship between metaphysics, phenomenology and neuroscience in the context of a whole person framework. Transpersonal psychology has struggled from its inception with the challenge of being branded as a metaphysical system--essentially a New Age religion. While Ferrer's participatory thought offers a corrective to this for transpersonal, the situation is different for Integral Yoga Psychology, which is explicitly rooted in Aurobindonian Integral Yoga--clearly situated within a spiritual tradition. How does a whole person approach incorporate or honor such a tradition and remain a psychology?
Comments
Glenn Hartelius, PhD, holds an MA in Religious Studies from Loma Linda University and a doctorate in East-West Psychology from CIIS . Glenn is the Chair of the Integral and Transpersonal Psychology Program at CIIS and a core faculty member in the East-West Psychology program. He is co-author of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, and editor of the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies. His work has helped to develop a literature-based definition for the field of transpersonal psychology, and originate somatic phenomenology as a research method for studying subtle phenomena of attention and presence. He serves as Secretary of the International Association and is a Director of ITA Professional. In addition to CIIS, he has taught courses in transpersonal psychology for Naropa University, Saybrook University, Middlesex University, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University, where he also served as core faculty.