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the
human
psyche
used
in
traditional
academic
psychotherapy
is
conceptually
limited
to
the
recollective-
analytical level,
this new
cartography
includes two
addi-
tional
levels
that
are
transbiographical.
These
are
the
perinatal
level,
characterized
by
emphasis
on
the
twin
phenomena
of
birth
and
death,
and
the
transpersonal
level
that can
in
principle mediate
experiential
connection
with any aspect of the phenomenal world and with various
mythological
and
archetypal
domains.
I
consider
the
knowledge
of
this cartography
to be indispensable
for
safe
and effective inner quest"
(p.
xvi).
In
the
second
section,
he
presents
for
the
first 'fime
the
basic
principles
of what
he
calls
"holotropic
therapy,"
or "holonomic
integration," which "combines
in
a
particular
way
controlled
breathing,
music and
other
types
of sound
technology,
focused body
work,
and mandala
drawing"
(p.
xiv).
Grof
notes
that
people
find
this method
"to be
an
effective and
exciting
tool
for self-exploration with an un-
usual
potential
for
mediating
transformative
and
mystical
experiences"
(p.
xiv).
It
contains
a
special
section on
the
effective healing and personality transformation mechanisms
that
operate
in
nonordinary
studies
of
consciousness,
and
which have
since
earliest
times had an important
place
in
healing and shamanic
rituals and
in
rites
of
passage.
He
has
attempted
to
rediscover
these
age-old
practices
and
reformulates
them
in
today’s
scientific
terminology.
The
book ends "with
a discussion of the potential and the goals
of experiential self-exploration utilizing the therapeutic and
transformative
power
of
nonordinary
states
of
conscious-
ness.
It
describes
how,
in
this
process,
emotional
and
psychosomatic
healing
is
combined
with
a
movement
toward
a more
fulfilling
strategy
of
life and
a
search
for
answers
to
the
fundamental
ontological
and
cosmological
questions
of
existence"
(pp.
xvi-xvii).
Parapsychological
phenomena
are considered
in
various
sections of the
book;
ESP
and
OBEs
under
"Transcendence
of
Spatial
Boundaries,"
reincarnation
and
precognition
under
'Transcendence of the Boundaries of Linear Time," survival
and mediumistic experiences under
"Experiential
Extension
Beyond
Consensus
Reality
and
Space-Time,"
and
synchronicity,
PK,
and RSPK
under
'Transpersonal
Ex-
periences of Psychoid Nature."
- DT/R.A.W.
02938.
Harvey, David.
The Power to Heal: An Inves-
tigation of Healing and the Healing Experience.
Wel-
lingborough,
Northamptonshire,
Eng: Aquarian
Press,
1983.
Annot
bibl:
187-190, 4 graphs; 15
illus; Ind: 191-192
Journalist
Harvey
surveys
psychic
healing,
primarily
in
Great
Britaia
He descries
the work
of
the
National
Federation
of
Spiritual
Healers and
through
depictions
of
the
life
and
work
of
individual
healers
past
and
present
provides a history of unorthodox healing
(psychic, spiritual,
and
mediumistic).
The
individual
healers
touched on
are
Rose Dawson,
Rose
Gladden,
Harry
Edwards,
John
Cain,
George Chapman,
and
Edgar
Chase.
Harvey
also
presents
the
results
of
a
survey
he
conducted
of
people who
had
been
treated by
healers with
positive
results.
The survey
asked whether people had benefited from
treatment, and
if
so, how.
It probed the circumstances under which any im-
provement occurred, and the way
in which the healing was
experienced during the time of treatment.
There are chap-
ters
discussing how
medicine
can
benefit
from
healers,
a
brief
and
selective
survey
of
research
on
healing,
and
a
summary
of theories of
healing.
There
is an appendix on
"Finding
a
Healer
and
Learning
to
Heal."
'There
is
a
select,
briefly-annotated
bibliography
of
books on
heal-
ing.
- R.A.W.
02939.
Houston,
Jean.
The Search for the Beloved:
Vol. 6, No. 1
June 1988
Journeys in Sacred Psychology.
Los
Angeles:
Jeremy
P.
Tarcher,
1987.
252p.
Chap
notes;
Glos:
235-237;
illus;
Ind:
245-252;
Musical
compositions:
238-241;
Selected
bibl:
242-244
Houston
is
a
past
president
of
the
Association
for
Humanistic Psychology and guides two schools,
a three-year
training program
in human
capacities
and
another
that
is
directed
toward
spiritual
studies
modeled
on
the
ancient
mystery
schools.
This work
is
based
in
part on
her
lec-
tures and processes for those courses.
Emphasis
is given to
the "Search
lor
the Beloved,"
of the
soul.
She
points
out:
"In
nearly
all
traditions, sacred psychology assumes
that the
deepest
yearning
in
every human
soul
is
to
return
to
its
spiritual
source,
there
to experience communion
and
even
union
with
the
Beloved.
This
relationship
is
then
ex-
pressed
in
the deepened and renewed
forms
of your
daily
life.
The
emphasis
on
this
union
and
transformation
is
what
distinguishes
sacred
psychology
from
other
depth
psychologies.
Thus
the
methods
of
sacred
psychology
in-
volve
processes
that
enhance
the
connection
between
the
historical
self
and
the
ultimate
reality.
These
processes
have the effect of
regeneration, so that you come gradually
to have an
extended
body,
an
amplified
mind,
a
compas-
sionate
heart,
an
active
soul, and
a new
life
of
high
serv-
ice.
Through
sacred psychology, you become
a
citizen
in
a
universe
larger
than
your
aspiration
and
more
complex
than
all your dreams"
(p.
xi).
The
book
is
arranged
in
a manner
to encourage
the
reader
"to experience
sacred psychology
as a developmental
path"
(p.
xi), which
is
also the order
in which
she
teaches
the
material.
Part
I,
"Perspectives,"
consists of
three
chap-
ters
that
provide
"the
ancient
and
modern
settings
for
sacred
psychology"
and
that
suggest
"the
premises
from
which the practice of sacred psychology flows"
(p.
xi).
Part
(five chapters) provides
"basic
exercises" aimed
at
attun-
ing body and mind to experience sacred psychology.
Three
of
these
chapters
may
have
import
for
parapsychology.
They
are
on
"extending
the
senses,"
training
the
creative
imagination,
and
"deveioping
the
imaginal
body."
Part
consists
of
three
chapters
about
"the
basic
themes
and
mythie
structures
from
which
this
work
springs,
and
provides experiential processes relevant to these themes"
(p.
xi).
Two chapters of
stories comprise Part
4,
in which the
reader
is
"invited
to
participate
(preferably
with
a
group)
in
the
actual
living journey
of
transformation drawn from
two
great
scenarios
of
the
journey
of
the
soul.
In
re-
creating
and
harvesting
these
old
stories,
you
are
chal-
lenged
to
discover
within
yourself
the new
story
that
is
emerging”
(p.
xii).
There
is a glossary,
list of musical com-
positions, and a selected bibliography aimed
at
assisting the
reader
to enhance
his or her experience and understanding
of sacred psychology.
- R.A.W.
02940.
Howard,
Colin
F.
Slowmotional
Meditation
(Bradykinesthesia).
Arlington,
VA:
01am
Publications,
1987.
359p.
Chap notes; 4
figs
The
author
has pioneered and
here
describes
a new
way
to
achieve
transcendent
experiences
via slowed
physi-
cal movements,
or
"slowmotional
meditation."
Howard
has
discovered
that
"a
slower
than
normal
rate
for
perceiving
our own movements,
as
well
as
the motion
all around
us,
opens up a new or different dimension.
Simply by slowing
our
normal
actions
we
consciously
"merge
with
motion"
while
still remaining functionai and observant"
(p.
10).
He
has
developed
techniques
of
meditating
with
movement,
and
uses "Bradykinesthesia" (BK)
as the
technical term
for
it.
BK
generates
KI,
or
kinetic
imagery.
On
p.
115
he
suggests
that KZ may
be
associated
with
parapsychological
phenomena.
By
following
this
technique
experiences
of
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