Category: Transpersonal Psychology

My first out-of-body experience came in a completely spontaneous manner and caught me by surprise. I was fairly young at the time and didn’t know anything about astral projection or shamanic practices, and I had never read about methods of how to do it, and didn’t have anyone explain...

It can be a bit difficult to give a name or title to experiences that reside outside our normal everyday awareness and belief system, because they seem to defy a logical explanation. Unexplainable experiences are typically referred to as paranormal, though this term, like most, has been greatly distorted...

I’ve had many premonitions throughout my life, but for the purpose of illustrating the impact some can have, I’m going to focus my description on the one that had the greatest impact on me, because in recognizing what it was I worked to try and change it, only to...

The mind exists as an intelligent field of subtle energy that constructs the physical body from the inside out, while also inhabiting and operating it as the vehicle, instrument, and means of expressing through in order to create an experience of itself within its own material construct. The mind...

We have been trained through traditional practices of various sorts, many of which are religious in nature, to pray for others when they’re experiencing crisis or hardship of some kind. We’re also taught to send positive thoughts their way through intention or visualization of some form, which really means...

Our intuition isn’t necessarily a skill or tool that we use at will, although it can be, but comes more as a basic way of perceiving and interacting with the world around us. It comes as feelings about things as a direct experience where we know about something without...

One of the first things we need to realize when working to change conditioned tendencies and habits of any kind, is that we don’t have to stop something, but rather begin doing something else. So to say things like stop stressing out, quit worrying, or just relax, don’t mean...

Like so many spiritual ideas that actually lay the foundation for practice as the means of self-development, they tend to be misunderstood in the most fundamental way. This is also largely due to the fact that the spiritual and physical world exists in polarity of each other as a...

How We Interpret the Events of Our Life to Create Our Experience While we know that stress is the underlying cause of most illness and disease, the term stress is typically used in a very vague manner that lacks any real definition. We can only work with something in...

The easiest way to understand the mind-body connection isn’t through researching endless forms of scientific data formed through clinical studies, but rather through self-observation. By simply turning inward and self-reflecting we can use our intuitive ability to observe what’s going on inside of us at any given moment, but...