{"title":"Participation, metaphysics, and enlightenment: Reflections on Ken Wilber’s recent work","authors":"Jorge N. Ferrer","doi":"10.30664/AR.67573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30664/AR.67573","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a number of key issues raised in the recent dialogue on the work of Ken Wilber between John Rowan and Michael Daniels, mediated by David Fontana and chaired by Malcolm Walley (Rowan et al., 2009). First, it responds to Rowan’s defence of Wilber’s work in the wake, of the paclicipalory critique. Second, it addresses the question of the cultural versus universal nature of Wilber’s Kosmic habits in dialogue with Daniels’ contribution. Third, it offers a critique of Wilber’s integral post-metaphysics and contrasts this with participatory spirituality. Fourth, it discusses the nature of enlightenment, as well as meditation, integral practice, and spiritual individuation. The paper concludes with some concrete directions in which to move the dialogue forward.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78305792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hold and release practice: A new way into meditation and mindfulness","authors":"E. Cohen","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"I initially developed the ‘Hold and Release Practice’ (HRP) whilst working with enhanced-care service users in the NHS and private practice (between 2005-2009). The HRP was subsequently developed and introduced to BA(Hons) Psychology & Society undergraduates between (2011–2014) and to Interdisciplinary Psychology MA students at Leeds Metropolitan University (2013–2014), and to over 100 participants at various ‘Yoga Manchester – Meditation for Beginners’ workshops (from 2013 onwards). More recently the practice was offered as a workshop during the 18thAnnual Transpersonal Psychology Section Conference, ‘Contextualising Mindfulness: Between the Sacred and the Secular’ (10–12 October 2014). This short and seemingly simple practice, serves as an embodied and experiential introduction to the relationship between posture, breath and mind, and is also a potent ‘preliminary practice’, preceding and supporting any style of sitting meditation practice. In addition to outlining and describing the technique, this paper will provide transpersonally-informed, reflexive interpretations on the practice – inspired by traditional Daoist cultivation techniques, Kabbalistic and Vedantic perspectives. It is hoped that in addition to being of use to novice meditators that HRP will also serve as a useful supplement for those with an established practice.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83476250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It is time again… to eternity","authors":"Ho C. Law","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"S0964028204001077 . Snee, H. (2013). Framing the Other: Cosmopolitanism and the representation of difference in overseas gap year narratives. The British journal of sociology, 64(1), 142–62. Retrieved 17 September 2013 from www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23488705. Stevens, A. (1990). On Jung, UK: Penguin Limited. Thornton, R. (2011). The transmission of knowledge in South African traditional healing. Africa, 79(01), 17–34. Retrieved 8 October 2014 from www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S00019720","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86694314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Emperor’s New Clothes: Ferrer isn’t wearing any – Participatory is perennial. A reply to Hartelius","authors":"J. Abramson","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.38","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79686348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Participatory thought has no emperor and no absolute — A further response to Abramson","authors":"G. Hartelius","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.49","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83121283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A startling new role for Wilber’s integral model; or how I learned to stop worrying and love perennialism – A response to Abramson","authors":"G. Hartelius","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.25","url":null,"abstract":"Critics of Ken Wilber’s work are unfailingly charged with misunderstanding his views. In a recent paper by John Abramson (2014), published in this journal under the title, ‘The misunderstanding and misinterpretation of key aspects of Ken Wilber’s work in Hartelius and Ferrer’s (2013) assessment,’ Hartelius and Ferrer’s paper, ‘Transpersonal Philosophy: The Participatory Turn,’ appearing as Chapter 10 in The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, has met with this same charge. This paper argues that what Abramson (2014) has done is (1) to attempt to inflate semantic issues into the appearance of substantive ones, (2) to conflate Wilber’s assertions with the logical arguments that would establish those assertions, (3) to critique the authors for using points made by Wilber himself, (4) to subtly assert the rightful primacy of Wilber’s model by implying that any debate about it should take place on the territory of its assumptions, (5) to lodge complaints that the authors have failed to co-create some compromise between participatory and integral approaches, and (6) to hold out the prospect that a full account of Wilber’s work would ‘comprehensively dispel’ (p.4) the misunderstandings to which Hartelius and Ferrer (2013) are allegedly subject. Through this retort, Abramson (2014) has attempted to create the appearance that Wilber’s work remains a viable framework for enterprises such as transpersonal psychology – something that seems highly unlikely. This paper further argues that Wilber does not offer a grand scholarly theory of everything, but a problematic metaphysical theory that may nevertheless continue to serve a limited popular audience.","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"19 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72373179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Turner, J. Callaghan, Alasdair Gordon-Finlayson
{"title":"Searching for afrocentric spirituality within the transpersonal","authors":"D. Turner, J. Callaghan, Alasdair Gordon-Finlayson","doi":"10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2015.17.1.20","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to show, via the lens of a culturally specific dream, how the transpersonal could benefit from broadening its approach to spirituality to include the wisdom of African spiritual beliefs. Considering some of the reasons for its lack of prominence, together with an exploration of some of the richness held within African spirituality, this paper suggests that a more Cosmopolitan approach to the Transpersonal is needed to avoid the creation of a spiritual Other. [This paper was based on the presentation at the 18th Annual Transpersonal Psychology Section Conference on 10–12 October 2015, The University of Northampton.]","PeriodicalId":92595,"journal":{"name":"Transpersonal psychology review","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84372536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}