Come to Yourself

What is Transpersonal Psychology? - Mathis

April 11, 2021 Gretchen O'Neal Season 1 Episode 2
Come to Yourself
What is Transpersonal Psychology? - Mathis
Show Notes Transcript

What is Transpersonal Psychology? - we ask the top scholars and professionals in the field to define "Transpersonal Psychology" in order to provide clarity on this important field of study, research, and healing.

Professor Raye Mathis, an astrologer, and teacher of consciousness studies and spiritual emergence expert, provides her definition.

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Gretchen:

How would you personally define transpersonal psychology?

Raye:

Well, to me, transpersonal psychology is adding in the spiritual piece, um, that has been missing it's, it's kind of like the combination of, um, psychology, uh, with the spiritual aspects of life. It's kind of like looking at, um, spiritual subject matter. What's on the other side, what's, um, what's beyond the rational. Uh, what is the non rational and how does that connect up with us? Um, I guess in, in, in Jungian terms it would be the unconscious, the collective unconscious, um, examining that, bringing that, how does that affect our conscious life? Bringing that back into the field of psychology, right, exactly. Exactly. It's, it's a little bit like healing. The split that happened in the age of when the age of reason started, uh, the 17th, 18th century in that time period, a split happened. And probably that split was necessary in a sense, because I think that the two were kind of, um, it's like a marriage, they were fused, they were merged and they didn't each appreciate or understand their own unique individuality and like a marriage. If a marriage can separate and each person can kind of come to their own, uh, unique understanding of who they are, then they can come back together with a much healthier relationship. So I think that that's, hopefully that's what will happen is that we will have the, to come back together now. Um, but with a much healthier relationship than we had back in the day,

Gretchen:

Come to yourself, provides unbiased, easily accessible information from the top scholars in the fields of transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies, coupled with personal insights, from successful artists, musicians, and business professionals, to anyone looking to start their spiritual journey, to discover and serve their soul's mission in life. Thank you for listening.