While the West has focused on personal and interpersonal dimensions of human experience, and the East on the transpersonal, there is no tradition that fully encompasses the entire spectrum of human experience in a complete body of teaching and practice. Everyday Life As Spiritual Path.
Psychological work includes that, but it's much broader than that.
It's a structured inquiry into conditioned patterns of mind, behavior and emotions. What I'm interested in is psychological work in a spiritual context. John explores not only how spiritual work can facilitate psychological work, but also how psychological work can help people on their spiritual path, which is less frequently examined. They have compartmentalized spirituality rather than integrated it into their everyday lives. This kind of 'spiritual bypassing' can be used so that you don't have to deal with personal and interpersonal difficulties.