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Ideas of the indian philosophy in transpersonal psychologies
Russian Psychological Journal ISSN 1812-1853 · eISSN 2411-5789 · Russian Psychological Society
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Methodology and philosophy of science Vol. 4 No. 2 (2007)

Ideas of the indian philosophy in transpersonal psychologies

  • Людмила Петровна Пендюрина Southern Federal University
    Bio

    Candidate of Philosophy Science, Assistant Profes­sor of the department of the History of Philosophy of the faculty of Philosophy and cultural science of SFU.

Abstract

The article is devoted to problems of development of transpersonal psychology and the analysis of ideas of the Indian philosophy used by representatives of transpersonal psychol­ogy for understanding of consciousness and prospects of development of mentality.

In the article there is considered the model of human consciousness offered by S. Grof, come to light its connections with representations about the world and the person in the Indian philosophical tradition.

The author opens an essence of integrated approach to person of K. Wilber, shows, that the given approach bases on the idea cholarchy. Representation about a reality as cholarchical structure goes back to a substantiation of the world as the Great circuit of the being, formu­lated for the first time in an ancient philosophy, as well in the Hinduism and the Buddhism.

Keywords

  • transpersonal psychology
  • the Great chain of being
  • cholarchy
  • cholotropi- cal breath
  • the changed conditions of consciousness
  • spirituality
  • the Indian philosophy
  • the Buddhism
  • lila, sat
  • chit
  • ananda

How to Cite

Ideas of the indian philosophy in transpersonal psychologies. (2007). Russian Psychological Journal, 4(2), 8-17. https://doi.org/10.21702/rpj.2007.2.1