Manuel Almendro

Transpersonal Consciousnes

Original title:

La consciencia transpersonal.

About the book:

Transpersonal Consciousnes

At last, important up-to-date research into transpersonal theory and practice is brought together in one volume, and given rigorous treatment, far removed from the abusive commercialism into which the term “transpersonal” has recently degenerated.

The reader will find everything from visions of the Whole, to specific practical applications such as music, and including also psychotherapy, ontology, shamanism, the confrontation of Eastern and Western worlds... This, then, is a consummately rich, heterogeneous and creative contribution, which is both theoretical and practical and which encourages us to think about modernity and tradition, new trends in psychotherapy, new ecological approaches, meditation techniques and more.  And all this in fields as disparate as philosophy, meditation, sexuality, psychology, art, and experience in general.

In Transpersonal Consciousnes, we can compare the ideas of a pioneer in Gestalt therapy like Claudion Naranjo, a philosopher like Salvador Paniker, a master of Vipasana meditation such as Dhiravamsa, a transpersonal psychiatrist of the calibre of Stanislav Grof, and theoreticians Like Roger Walsh, Francis Vaughan and John Rowan. All these, together with other eminent investigators from Latin American culture.

About the author:

The editor, Manuel Almendro, a prestigious transpersonal psychologist, has experimentally worked his way through the fields of psychoanalysis, Gestalt and bioenergetics; he has profound knowledge of Zen and is in contact with a shaman from the Sierra Mazateca.