Transpersonal Psychology
Archive links for this tradition are collected below.
Episodes
Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness: The Psychiatrist Who Saw the Infinite
Canadian psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke experienced an unbidden illumination in spring 1872 and spent thirty years building a rigorous taxonomy of what he had seen.
The 1956 Experiment That Broke Materialism - Stan Grof's journeys
In 1956, a young Czech psychiatrist took 100 micrograms of LSD under a strobe light and returned with a model of mind that fractured fifty years of Marxist materialism.