The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies (IJTS) is a semi-annual peer-reviewed academic journal publishing on topics in transpersonal and whole person approaches to psychology and related fields. IJTS is read in more than 190 countries, papers are published with doi numbers, and the impact factor for the journal is 0.15 for 2018. The journal has been in print since 1981, and its readership is reflected in more than 50,000 article downloads per year by over 10,000 users. IJTS is sponsored by the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a university internationally recognized as a leader in integral and transpersonal education, research, and scholarship.