Product Description: Explores whether consciousness-based practices like meditation and prayer can contribute to social change. Can awakened consciousness contribute to social change and, if so, how? David Nicol introduces the concept of “subtle activism” to describe the use of consciousness-based practices like meditation and prayer to support collective transformation, such as global meditation directed toward peaceful resolution of a conflict...read more

Product Description: Essays on the role of psychedelics in culture and the treatment of mental illness.

Product Description: Could it possibly be that something as important as spirituality does not support your enlightenment? Could spiritual concepts such as soul, self, God, karma, reincarnation, positive thinking or love be blocking you from the enlightenment you seek? "Words and Concepts that Are and Are Not Conducive to Enlightenment" has something to challenge or irritate everyone...read more

This careful, exhaustive, often astonishing chronicle of anomalous phenomena dismissed by conventional science is Charles Fort's groundbreaking foray into the field of "weird science." Fort looked at science as a dogmatic attempt to explain phenomena in prefabricated and often constrictive terms. It was the anomalies, the excluded, or what Fort called "the damned" at the fringes of science that offered the most intriguing windows to the future of human insight. To tweak stodgy scientists, Fort's Book of the Damned recounts hundreds of strange situations that he felt eluded scientific explanation-from black rain to six-legged lambs-many of which were reported in mainstream scientific publications of the time. Scientists, he asserted, often argued according to their own beliefs rather than the rules of evidence and ignored inconvenient facts that conflicted with their preferred theories.

Product Description: Discusses how William James’s work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective. William James is often considered a scientist compromised by his advocacy of mysticism and parapsychology...read more

Cuando hablamos de Psicología Transpersonal, estamos refiriéndonos a una corriente psicológica –que lleva ya más de medio siglo de práctica, impulsada primordialmente por psicólogos norteamericanos- que en su modelo terapéutico reconoce la figura del sanador interior, quien hace posible incluso la conexión con dimensiones trascendentes en momentos especiales a los que suele denominarse experiencias cumbre. Éstas resultan altamente provechosas porque nos ayudan a amplificar nuestra conciencia y nos comprometen profundamente con el mundo que nos rodea. Desde nuestro instituto contribuimos con este esquema desde el año 2005 y no nos quedamos analizando en teoría estas posibilidades, nuestros egresados las llevan a la práctica en su consultoría a través de distintas técnicas que permiten experimentar aquello que el propio nombre de esta escuela facilita: la trascendencia de lo que es personal, es decir, la integración con lo que está más allá del propio ser. El hombre está ante un nuevo paradigma porque la ciencia no puede mantener en pie sus ideas materialistas, extremadamente lógicas y alejadas de lo espiritual. Deberá, no obstante, darle un verdadero sentido a la palabra “espiritual” y no sumergirla en connotaciones ideológicas que no serían sino más de lo mismo. Este modelo afirma que el ser humano posee todas las herramientas necesarias para su evolución, y llegar así a ser uno con la Conciencia Cósmica. Por eso a sus representantes no les importa decir que abordan casos de “crisis espirituales”, sin temor a caer en el ridículo. En síntesis, la Psicología Transpersonal trabaja con y por lo mejor del hombre y desde el Instituto Badaracco estamos comprometidos con estos nobles principios.

Product Description: Entre los muchos métodos existentes para determinar el pasado, el presente y el porvenir, el arte de leer el Tarot se erigió con particular preeminencia sobre todos los demás. Las cartas del Tarot constituyen una manera interesante de resolver esa ansiedad humana atemporal que jamás cesó por conocer el futuro, y al mismo tiempo pueden simbolizarnos un profundo viaje al interior de nosotros mismos si las empleamos de modo terapéutico...read more

Product Description: This elegant, concise guide by the founder of the University of Philosophical Research distills a lifetime of spiritual seeking into one beautiful, unforgettable blueprint for inner growth.  "When you grow exhausted with all of today’s spiritual programs, axioms, seminars, and techniques; when you feel fatigued from searching and cannot find a way forward; when it seems that years of seeking have netted so little – throw yourself upon the essential truths in this book…It can be lifesaving...read more

Product Description: Volume II: Steps to a Metatranspersonal Philosophy and Psychology: A Critique of the Systems of Wilber, Washburn and Grof, and an Outline of the Dzogchen Path to Definitive True Sanity ISBN: 978-1-57733-272-5 Volume II explains authentic Paths of Awakening and spiritual emergencies as mainly “descending” processes, not in the sense of involving regression, but in that of undoing pretenses and Seeing through all that is built, created, produced, contrived, conditioned or compounded, into the true condition that the Dzogchen teachings call the Base...read more

Product Description: Volume III: Further Steps to a Metatranspersonal Philosophy and Psychology: An Evaluation of Ken Wilber’s System and of the Ascender/Descender Debate ISBN: 978-1-57733-273-2 Volume III discusses the ascender/descender debate from a standpoint different from those of both sides of the debate, showing how to avoid the “spiritual materialism” of those systems that posit the need to build successive structures rather than Seeing through all structures—which is what Buddhism in general and Dzogchen in particular do...read more

Product Description: Volume 1: Introduction: Essential Concepts and Summary of Transpersonal and Metatranspersonal Theory ISBN:978-1-57733-269-5 Volume I lays out the basic principles of Buddhism and, in greater detail, the Buddhist Dzogchen tradition—and compares them to the evolving understanding of the Transpersonal Psychology system...read more

Product Description: Volume IV: Further Steps to a Metatranspersonal Philosophy and Psychology: An Assessment of the Transpersonal Paradigms of Grof and Washburn ISBN: 978-1-57733-274-9 Volume IV further discusses the sense of “descending” in the term “descending systems,” showing that only systems that are so—in the metaphenomenological, metaexistential sense—agree with Buddhism...read more

Product Description: The scene of the revelation of Mahanirvana-Tantra is laid in Himalaya, the “Abode of Snow,” a holy land weighted with the traditions of the Aryan race.

Product Description: Il saggio evidenzia come la psicologia di Assagioli, basantesi su solidi fondamenti clinici, oltre che proporsi come cura di patologie gravi si proponga al contempo quale metodo di perfezionamento dell'uomo sano. Tramite il potenziamento delle facoltà latenti dell'essere e grazie ad un approccio palesemente olistico e in piena sintonia con la stessa psicologia transpersonale, la Psicosintesi assagioliana si palesa quale percorso di cura-sviluppo che grazie all'ausilio di tecniche di derivazione sapienziale ascrivibili alla fenomenologia della Perennis Philosophia, assume i caratteri di una vera e propria Via Iniziatica...read more

Product Description: While meditating one morning at his urban home in California, Jay Dufrechou noticed that if he quieted the chatter in his head, he heard rain falling on the roof in a way that felt intimate and sacred. Quite unexpectedly, this brought weeping, along with grief...read more

Product Description: There are certain unusual mental states that have such an extraordinary intensity, that they are numinous; they hold a sense of the sacred, they involve the presence of an archetype. These states can be beautiful or utterly terrifying, they can predispose to illness but if carefully negotiated they carry enormous potential for accelerated development...read more

Product Description: Reading the book Spiritual Competency in Psychotherapy was like having a series of extended conversations with a good friend about what really matters in psychotherapy and life. Philip Brownell generously shares his experiences, insights, knowledge, questions, and struggles about spirituality and psychotherapy in this book...read more

Product Description: This volume takes a unique approach to the question of what it is to be a gendered, sexual self in a postmodern world, offering insights informed by the Integral paradigm of theory and practice. With the inquiry into sex, gender, and sexuality having become so broad and diverse within both academia and popular culture, the Integral approach aims to make sense of the cacophony of theories and agendas that seek to stake their ground in this collective conversation...read more

Product Description: Joy Manné's collected articles from The Healing Breath: A Journal of Breathwork Practice, Psychology and Spirituality. Joy Manné created this journal, the first peer-review journal for Breathwork.