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Consciousness and its Transformation

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Integral Psychology,
Pondicherry India
4-7 january 2001
Published by SAICE, Pondicherry (India), 2001

 

CONTENTS

Matthijs Cornelissen: Introduction

 

Section One: Integral psychology

A. S. Dalal: Reversal of consciousness, thoughts on the psychology of the new birth

Bhaman Sherazi: Integral psychology, metaphors and processes of personal integration

Shraddhavan: Savitri, a key to Sri Aurobindo’s psycho-cosmology

 

Section Two: Integral psychotherapy

Brant Cortright: Integral psychotherapy as existential Vedanta

Alok Pandey: Practical aspects of integral psychotherapy

Soumitra Basu: Integral psychotherapy: personal encounters

Michael Miovic: Towards a spiritual psychology: bridging psychodynamic psychotherapy with integral yoga

 

Section Three: Integral yoga and the Indian tradition

Arabinda Basu: Sri Aurobindo’s metaphysical psychology: a brief introduction

Chote Narayan Sharma: Consciousness and its transformation

Ananda Reddy: Vedantic yoga-psychology

Vladimir: Sanjnana, ajnana, vijnana, prajnana

Aster Patel: Working in Matter

Section Four: Modern psychology and spirituality

S. Narayanan: The probabilistic orientation

George Mathew: Models of consciousness and its transformation

Jane Henry: Developing creativity

S. K. Kiran Kumar: Contextual approach to meditation and integral psychology

K. Krishna Mohan: Spirituality and well-being: an overview

 

Section Five: Epistemology and methodology

Max Velmans: A map of consciousness studies

Dennis Hargiss: Integral phenomenology: a method for the “new psychology”, the study of mysticism and the sacred

Sangeetha Menon: Beside the “intentor” and the “integrator”: looking at two “faces” of consciousness

Kundan: Beyond postmodernism: towards a future psychology

Ulrich Mohrhoff: Beyond the cookie cutter paradigm

 

Section Six: Workshops

Jan Maslow: Insight dialogue session

Don Salmon: Voyaging through worlds of splendour and calm: an experience of integral pscyhology

 

Appendixes

Addresses of the authors

(The printed book has also an Index)