Recently added articles from ReVision:
Letter to the editor: John Heron on Randy Conner's critique.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Dear Editor, In his article in the Winter 2007 issue of ReVision, Randy P. Conner makes a few criticisms of my views. I have been invited to reply by the issue's Guest Editor, Gregg Lahood. Conner writes that I "[do] not grant the innumerable unfolding divine ...
Introduction: relational spirit, collective buddhas, and sacred bodies.
Mar 22, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is my pleasure to introduce the second part of this monograph dedicated to the participatory turn in transpersonal thinking and spiritual practice. In the first issue, the authors contributed articles about cooperative inquiry, Native American ...
Two suitors: a parable.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The postmodern mind has come to recognize, with a critical acuity that has been at once disturbing and liberating, the multiplicity of ways in which our often hidden presuppositions and the structures of our subjectivity shape and elicit the reality we seek to understand. If we have ...
Earth in eclipse.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There is another world, but it is in this one. (Paul Eluard) As a fresh millennium dawns around us, a new and vital skill is waiting to be born in the human organism, a new talent called for by the curious situation in which much of humankind ...
Ironies of true selves in trans/personal knowing: decolonizing trickster presences in the creation of indigenous participatory presence.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... As the Cartesian ego dissolves its grip on the contemporary sell, as human beings become more whole or intuitively foresee their wider and deeper identity, a narrow understanding of the term transpersonal as "beyond the personal" may become increasingly unsatisfactory. (Ferrer 2002, xviii) ...
The next Buddha will be a collective: spiritual expression in the peer-to-peer era.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ABSTRACT. Religious and spiritual expression is always embedded in societal structures. If social structures are moving toward the form of distributed networks, what kind of evolution of spiritual expression can be expected? In this article, the author ...
The participatory turn and the transpersonal movement: a brief introduction.
Jan 01, 2007; ... To turn, turn will be our delight, 'Til by turning, turning we come round right. (Shaker dance song) In this issue, ReVision offers the first of a two-part monograph devoted to the further emergence of the participatory worldview within the transpersonal movement. These two ...
Participatory fruits of spiritual inquiry.
Jan 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. This article is a contribution to the cartography of spiritual inquiry. The author explores its grounding in three interdependent kinds of inquiry--personal, collaborative, and cultural--and evaluates the relevance of the perennial philosophy. He then outlines a dipolar theology ...
Of travelers, roads, voyagers, and rafts: a meditation on participation.
Jan 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. Inspired by Jorge N. Ferrer, the author explores the multidimensionality of reality and the view that myriad pathways may illuminate the exploration of that multidimensionality. Among the most significant teachings of pagan traditions, these concepts were lost as cultures ...
One hundred years of Sacred Science: participation and hybridity in transpersonal anthropology (1).
Jan 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. The discipline of anthropology has been a major influence on transpersonal psychology. The transpersonal movement has now, in turn, influenced many anthropologists and opened new fields of research. In this article, the author explores the historical emergence and basic premise ...
The Two Darts: meeting pain with mindfulness practice.
Sep 22, 2006; ... ABSTRACT. The author explores the way mindfulness practice can be used theoretically and practically in the clinical setting to assist patients and therapists. By understanding the difference between pain and suffering, the therapist can work more effectively with the psychology of pain ....
The four seasons of integral education: a participatory proposal.
Sep 22, 2006; ... ABSTRACT. The authors introduce a participatory approach to integral education in which all human dimensions--body, vital, heart, mind, and consciousness--participate co-creatively in the unfolding of learning and inquiry. After some preliminary considerations about the basic elements of ...
The wonder of it all: emotion and personal transformation.(Cover story)
Sep 22, 2006; ... ABSTRACT. The interdisciplinary study of emotion illuminates the fundamental nature of human thought and feeling. This research is important because it aids in the understanding of human spirituality. In this article, the author argues that recent research about emotions reveals the innate ...
Hanging by a Thread.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2006; ... <Pre> Hanging by a Thread (for Karen) Even Theseus, as beautiful and strong as a young lion, his mane of golden locks shimmering in the Mycenean sun, trembled at the Minotaur's roar, froze like a deer in the twilight between left and right. ...
Wisdom in war: ordinary people in extraordinary times.
Sep 22, 2006; ... How would we think about wisdom if we lived in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, or Kosovo? Would we think about it at all--or would we focus on survival? Does wisdom even appear in the same place as violence and madness? Can it? What if madness came to town--and we had to deal with ...
Dreaming the ritual onward.
Jun 22, 2006;
Places and states of mind for healing.
Jun 22, 2006;
The chaotic brain, dissociative states, and dream function.
Jun 22, 2006;
Dreams and visions in initiation and healing.
Jun 22, 2006;
In memoriam.(Obituary)
Jun 22, 2006 ... Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick November 19, 1926-December 7, 2006 and Douglas J. Kirkpatrick July 17, 1956-July 14, 2006 All of us at the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation are deeply saddened by the deaths of Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, president of the ...