A form of psychology that examines the spiritual aspects of human experience. Topics usually studied in this system include spiritual self-development, peak experiences, trance states, and mystical experiences. Although complementary to parapsychology, it is not the same. Parapsychology investigates the objective reality of paranormal phenomena while Transpersonal Psychology investigates the spiritual meaning of such phenomena. In some ways Transpersonal Psychology overlaps with mysticism.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...