Whitehead and Transpersonal Psychology

The following paper is a relatively technical treatment of the LSD experience, using Whitehead’s terminology. It concerns mysticism, the nature of consciousness, Stanislav Grof’s cartography of the psyche, and other topics in transpersonal psychology. The paper was presented at The Center for Process Studies, Claremont,California, August 1998.

Whitehead, LSD, and Transpersonal Psychology

The following paper explores Stanislav Grof’s Holotropic Breathwork as a process psychotherapy using a number of Whitehead’s technical concepts, including modes of perception and mental and physical polarity of experience.  It was presented at the 6th International Whitehead Conference, Salzburg University, July 2006

Holotropic Breathwork as Process Psychotherapy