Thus, all six areas are addressed scholastically and therapeutically, and integration or balance is sought. This is the ITP educational model. Transpersonal psychology is a psychology that goes through the personal to the transpersonal. Far from just transcending our humanity, it is a process of working through our humanity, in an inclusive way, to reach the recognition of divinity within. Thus, transpersonal psychology emerges out of personal psychology, as a result of the individual's growth and maturation.
Transpersonal psychology is the future norm in psychology, as yet unrecognized by the mainstream.
It provides both an extension of and a different perspective from these previous psychologies. It in no way is a denial of the validity of their theories and techniques. It simply places them in a new context. Transpersonal psychology asserts that religious and mystical experiences and the perspectives that derive from them are valid approaches to reality and can be studied scientifically. It is the beginning attempt of science to understand these most meaningful of human experiences.