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By Jorge N. Ferrer

A groundbreaking and hopeful new examine modern spirituality, transpersonal psychology, quintessential schooling, and spiritual variety and pluralism.

Participation and the Mystery is either an advent to and enlargement of Jorge N. Ferrer’s groundbreaking paintings on participatory spirituality, which holds that humans are energetic cocreators of religious phenomena, worlds, or even ultimates. After reading the impression of his paintings because the e-book of Revisioning Transpersonal Theory, Ferrer discusses the connection among technological know-how and transpersonal psychology, the character of an absolutely embodied spirituality, and the positive aspects of imperative non secular perform. The ebook additionally introduces a participatory philosophy of schooling and applies it to the educational educating of mysticism and a singular method of embodied non secular inquiry. seriously enticing the influential paintings of Stanislav Grof, Ken Wilber, and A. H. Almaas, Ferrer concludes with an unique option to the matter of non secular pluralism that affirms the ontological richness of spiritual worlds whereas keeping off the extremes of perennialism and contextualism, supplying a hopeful imaginative and prescient for the way forward for international faith. Participation and the Mystery is a useful source to someone looking to deepen their realizing of participatory ways to transpersonal psychology, necessary and contemplative schooling, modern spirituality, and non secular studies.

Jorge N. Ferrer is Professor of East-West Psychology on the California Institute of crucial reports. he's the writer of Revisioning Transpersonal idea: A Participatory imaginative and prescient of Human Spirituality and the coeditor, with Jacob H. Sherman, of The Participatory flip: Spirituality, Mysticism, non secular Studies, either additionally released by means of SUNY Press.

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