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A 6 page essay discussing the relationship between transpersonal psychology and the paranormal. Specific examples are given with discussion relating the effects of induced hypnosis and ESP which is then related to the precepts of the transpersonal movement. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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on UFOs, ESP, ghosts, aliens, alien abductions, and other inexplicable events that have either allegedly occurred or that have been dreamed up by the writers. This is what the paranormal
is -- events outside normal experiences and outside normal scientific explanations. Surveys indicate that more people believe in the possibility of these paranormal experiences. A study at Purdue University, for
example, found that the more people were exposed to these kinds of television shows the more they believed in the paranormal as real. These results concern serious scientists because they
believe the proliferation of paranormal television shows contributes to the scientific illiteracy of the public (Jaroff, 1995). There are still a large majority of skeptics, however, those who do
not believe such experiences are real. Adding to the controversy, there has been a significant amount of research conducted into such arenas as remote viewing, telepathy, and clairvoyance, much of
which demonstrates the existence of these experiences. These are the aspects of the paranormal that fall under the umbrella of parapsychology and they can be investigated in a scientific setting.
Paranormal experiences seem to be heightened in altered states of consciousness, such as intoxication, delirium or under hypnosis. Interestingly, transpersonal psychology is one field that openly discusses spirituality as well
as altered states of consciousness (Walsh, 1994). Abraham Maslow (1970), who played a central role in the development of humanistic psychology also was a key figure in the transpersonal movement.
As he studied exceptionally health people whom he called selfactualizers, he found these people tended to have spontaneous, ecstatic, unitive states of consciousness that were parallel to those of historical
mystics (Walsh, 1994). Transpersonal psychology came about to explore the human potential for the kinds of experiences that took the person out of the normal into another reality, although neither
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