The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 2010, Volume 29(1).pdf

ranspersonal Studies

he International Journal of

Volume 29(1), 2010

Editors’ Introduction— Glenn Hartelius

An Investigation of the Relationships Among Self-Construal, Emotional Intelligence,

and Well-Being— Constance Mara, Teresa DeCicco, & Mirella Stroink

Koans and Levels of Consciousness— John Rowan

SPECIAL TOPIC:

Relational Spirituality and Developmental Spirituality

Introduction to Special Topic Section— Glenn Hartelius & Maureen Harrahy

Consciousness and Society: Societal Aspects and Implications

of Transpersonal Psychology— Harry Hunt

Relational Spirituality, Part 1. Paradise Unbound:

Cosmic Hybridity and Spiritual Narcissism in the “One Truth”

of New Age Transpersonalism— Gregg Lahood

Relational Spirituality, Part 2. he Belief in Others as a Hindrance

to Enlightenment: Narcissism and the Denigration of Relationship

within Transpersonal Psychology and the New Age— Gregg Lahood

Transpersonal and Other Models of Spiritual Development

Harris Friedman, Stanley Krippner, Linda Riebel, & Chad Johnson

he Self and the Great Chain of Being: Interview with Robert Bolton

Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

Jacob Wrestles the Angel: A Psycho-Spiritual Analysis

Michael Abramsky

he Grofs’ Model of Spiritual Emergency in Retrospect: Has it Stood

the Test of Time?— Darlene Viggiano & Stanley Krippner

he Gift of Life: Death As Teacher in the Aghori Sect— Rochelle Suri

Book Reviews— Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

T he International Journal of

ranspersonal Studies

Volume 29(1), 2010

Table of Contents

Editors’ Introduction— Glenn Hartelius

iii

An Investigation of the Relationships Among Self-Construal, Emotional Intelligence,

and Well-Being— Constance Mara, Teresa DeCicco, & Mirella Stroink

Koans and Levels of Consciousness— John Rowan

SPECIAL TOPIC:

Relational Spirituality and Developmental Spirituality

Introduction to Special Topic Section— Glenn Hartelius & Maureen Harrahy

Consciousness and Society: Societal Aspects and Implications

of Transpersonal Psychology— Harry Hunt

Relational Spirituality, Part 1. Paradise Unbound:

Cosmic Hybridity and Spiritual Narcissism in the “One Truth”

of New Age Transpersonalism— Gregg Lahood

Relational Spirituality, Part 2. he Belief in Others as a Hindrance

to Enlightenment: Narcissism and the Denigration of Relationship

within Transpersonal Psychology and the New Age— Gregg Lahood

Transpersonal and Other Models of Spiritual Development

Harris Friedman, Stanley Krippner, Linda Riebel, & Chad Johnson

he Self and the Great Chain of Being: Interview with Robert Bolton

Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

Jacob Wrestles the Angel: A Psycho-Spiritual Analysis

Michael Abramsky

106

he Grofs’ Model of Spiritual Emergency in Retrospect: Has it Stood

the Test of Time?— Darlene Viggiano & Stanley Krippner

118

he Gift of Life: Death As Teacher in the Aghori Sect— Rochelle Suri

128

Book Reviews— Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

134

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

The Internatonal Journal of Transpersonal Studes

Volume 29, Issue 1, 2010

Board of Editors

Manuel Almendro (Spain)

Rosemarie Anderson (USA)

Liora Birnbaum (Israel)

Laura Boggio Gilot (Italy)

Jacek Brewcz

ynski (USA)

Søren Brier (Denmark)

Elias Capriles (Venezuela)

Michael Daniels (UK)

John Davis (USA)

Wlodzislaw Duch (Poland)

James Fadiman (USA)

Jorge N. Ferrer (Spain/USA)

David Fontana (UK)

Joachim Galuska (Germany)

David Y. F. Ho (Hong Kong, China)

Daniel Holland (USA)

Chad Johnson (USA)

Bruno G. Just (Australia)

Sean Kelly (USA)

Jefrey Kuentzel (USA)

S. K. Kiran Kumar (India)

Charles Laughlin (Canada/USA)

Olga Louchakova (USA)

Vladimir Maykov (Russia)

Axel A. Randrup (Denmark)

Vitor Rodriguez (Portugal)

Brent Dean Robbins (USA)

Mario Simöes (Portugal)

Charles Tart (USA)

Rosanna Vitale (Canada)

John Welwood (USA)

Editor

Glenn Hartelius

Senior Editor

Harris Friedman

Coordinating Editor

Les Lancaster

Honorary Editor

Stanley Krippner

Editors Emeriti

Don Diespecker

Philippe Gross

Douglas A. MacDonald

Sam Shapiro

Special Topic Editor

Maureen Harrahy

Associate Managing Editors

Charles Flores

Cheryl Fracasso

Christian Gaden Jensen

Adam Rock

Rochelle Suri

Associate Circulation Editors

Adrian Andreescu

Zayin Neumann

Editorial Assistant

Courtenay Crouch

Publisher

Floraglades Foundation, Incorporated

1270 Tom Coker Road

LaBelle, FL 33935

ISSN (Print) 1321-0122

ISSN (Electronic) 1942-3241

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Editors’ Introduction

T he irst 2010 issue of the International Journal of

beyond logic, into deeper domains of consciousness. As

Rowan notes, there have been discussions on what the

“correct” response to certain koans might be. Rowan

proposes a diferent understanding, namely that the

answer one gives to a koan might relect one’s level of

consciousness. Working within Ken Wilber’s model

of ascending levels of consciousness—mythic/magic,

mental ego, centaur, and so on—Rowan ofers a series

of responses to several well known koans that might

characterize various of those levels.

In the preparation of this issue, the journal is

happy to welcome a number of new staf members. First

among these is the Special Topic Editor for this issue,

Maureen Harrahy. here are also ive new Associate

Managing Editors, assisting with shepherding articles

through the review process: Charles Flores, Cheryl

Fracasso, Christian Gaden Jensen, Adam Rock, and

Rochelle Suri. In addition, Adrian Andreescu and

Zayin Neumann have served as Associate Circulation

Editors, supporting work in getting the journal indexed

in databases and visible to a larger audience. Following

is a short bio on each of these staf members:

Transpersonal Studies ofers two articles of general

interest, as well as a special topic section titled, Relational

Spirituality and Developmental Spirituality (separately

introduced).

he irst of our general papers is by Constance

Mara, Teresa DeCicco, & Mirella Stroink, entitled, An

Investigation of the Relationships Among Self-Construal,

Emotional Intelligence, and Well-Being. Self-construal

is a constructed concept of one’s self, and two of the

authors of the current paper published an earlier study

in this journal introducing a new, more transpersonally-

oriented type of self-construal (DeCicco & Stroink,

2007). he literature contained both an independent

self-construal, in which the self is irmly bounded

and relatively autonomous, and an interpersonal self-

construal, in which the self is molded by others and by

situations. DeCicco and Stroink proposed a third model, a

metapersonal self-construal in which the sense of identity

extends beyond the person to include broader aspects

of life, community, or world. hey then constructed

and validated a scale to measure the metapersonal self-

construal. he current paper extends this work, showing

that a metapersonal self-construal predicts greater well-

being and higher emotional intelligence than either

the independent or the interdependent self-construals.

In other words, an understanding of one’s self that is

congruent with a more transpersonal view of personhood

appears to correlate with positively with well-being and

emotional intelligence.

A paper by John Rowan, entitled, Koans and

Levels of Consciousness, ofers an insightful perspective

on the Buddhist practice of engaging with koans—those

enigmatic questions that seem to have no logical answer.

his appears to be their purpose: to push the student

Maureen Harrahy, MA, is a Ph.D. candidate at the

Institute of Transpersonal Psychology focusing on

teaching, education, and research. Currently, she is

working full time on her dissertation research regarding

the intersubjective impact of a traumatic event: cancer

diagnosis and treatment. She is also focusing on

developing her editorial skills as an associate managing

editor for this journal and as an editorial board intern

for he Qualitative Report. Her areas of interest

include participatory theory and philosophy, relational

psychologies, interpersonal development, social neuro-

science and interpersonal neurobiology.

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies , 29 (1), 2010, pp. iii-iv

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Charles I. Flores, PhD, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor

at California State University East Bay, and has taught

for John F. Kennedy University, and other universities. A

practicing National Certiied Counselor in mental health

and Master Addiction Counselor with at-risk teenagers, he

has worked on issues of diversity, social activism, religious

studies, and integral psychology for twenty years. He has

recently co-written a chapter in the anthology Gurus

in Modern Yoga for Oxford University Press, entitled,

“Remembering Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.”

Cheryl Fracasso, MS, is currently pursuing a PhD in

Clinical Psychology at Saybrook University. She serves

as adjuct faculty member for the University of Phoenix;

Research Assistant at Saybrook University with Stanley

Krippner, PhD; and Associate Managing Editor of the

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies. Her

main areas of research are in the ields of Near-Death

Experiences and Energy Medicine. Recent publications

with co-author Harris Friedman include: Near-Death

Experiences: Implications for Clinical Practice; Near-

Death Experiences Among a Small Sample of Iranian

Muslims; and Psychologists’ Knowledge and Attitudes

Toward Near-Death Experiences: Change Over Time and

Relation to Transpersonal Self-Concept. She currently

resides in the Seattle, Washington area.

at national and international conferences. His research

interests include shamanism, altered states, mediumship

and psi.

Rochelle Suri, MFT, PhD, holds her doctoral degree

in East-West Psychology from the California Institute

of Integral Studies, where she is currently faculty. She

is also a licensed Marriage and Family herapist in the

state of California and is the Agency Assistant Director

for Progress Foundation, a mental health organization

in San Francisco. Her areas of research and interest are

transpersonal psychology, anthropology, spirituality, and

psychopathology.

Adrian Andreescu is a Romanian independent researcher,

his primary academic interest focusing on the complex

relationship between culture, subjectivity, and health. As

Associate Circulation Editor Adrian has been instrumental

in getting IJTS indexed in a number of databases. He

encourages researchers to self-archive their published

papers in open repositories (please consult RoMEO

database for publisher’s policy) and to use networking

websitessuch as Academia.edu for cross fertilization of

ideas.

Zayin Neumann is an author, father, teacher, and student

of life. He has traveled around the country and internation-

ally presenting various pieces of his PhD dissertation which

he is completing in East-West Psychology at the California

Institute of Integral Studies. His most recent writing

on the dialogue between evolutionary and indigenous

epistemologies can be found in recent and upcoming

issues of the journal ReVision . Zayin has facilitated and

organized workshops and classes on Embodied Spiritual

Inquiry, African Indigenous Technologies, and Integral

Cosmology in and around the Bay Area, and is currently

working closely with Dagara elder, Malidoma Somé.

Christian Gaden Jensen is a PhD candidate working at

the Neuroscience Centre at the Copenhagen University

Hospital, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is investigating

whether mindfulness training has a stronger efect on

certain individuals who are genetically predisposed to

have a stronger correlation than others between emotional

coping and health. On the side, he is conducting research

in parapsychological and transpersonal issues.

Adam Rock, PhD, is Head of Research and Development

at the Phoenix Institute of Australia. Dr. Rock is

also a Founding International Board Member of the

International Transpersonal Association, President of the

Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, an

Associate Editor of Anthropology of Consciousness, and

an Editorial Board member of the Australian Journal of

Parapsychology. He has published dozens of scholarly

articles in prestigious academic journals such as the Journal

of Scientiic Exploration, Transpersonal Psychology

Review, and the Journal of Parapsychology. He has been

awarded over $200, 000 in research grants. In addition,

he has presented or co-presented over 30 papers or posters

Glenn Hartelius, Editor

Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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