Table of Contents

Preface to First Edition Preface to Second Edition Introduction 1. Transpersonal Theory: Two Basic Paradigms The Dynamic-Dialectical Paradigm The Structural-Hierarchical Paradigm Choosing Between the Paradigms Conclusion 2. The Body Ego Original Embedment The Emergence of the Ego from the Dynamic Ground and the Initial Appearance of the Great Mother The Splitting of the Great Mother Conflict with the Great Mother and Primal Repression The Body Project, the Oedipus Complex, and Primal Repression Conclusion 3. The Body Ego: Cognitive and Affective Development The Presymbolic Stage The Referential-Protosymbolic Stage The Symbolic-Protoconceptual Stage Conclusion 4. The Mental Ego The Mental Ego's Crisis of Awakening in Adolescence Earning Being and Value in Early Adulthood The Mental Ego and Cognition The Mental Ego's Difficulties at Midlife Conclusion 5. The Unconscious The Dynamic Ground The Instinctual-Archetypal Unconscious The Body Unconscious Primal Repression The Personal Unconscious Conclusion 6. Meditation: The Royal Road to the Unconscious A Definition of Meditation Meditation and Prayer Meditation and the Unconscious Meditation Before and After Crossing the Threshold of Primal Repression Beyond Meditation Conclusion 7. Regression in the Service of Transcendence Stage One: Withdrawal from the World Stage Two: Encounter with the Prepersonal Unconscious Conclusion 8. Regeneration in Spirit General Features of the Regeneration Process Specific Features of the Regeneration Process Conclusion 9. Integration Dualism Transcended: The Coincidentia Oppositorum The Horizons of Integrated Life Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

"I find it a psychologically more pertinent synthesis of the claims, experiences, and insights in transpersonal development than Wilber's paradigm. It is neater, more parsimonious, and more powerful." - James N. Mosel "Washburn brings together many insights from psychotherapy and from meditation in an incomparably illuminating map of emotional-spiritual processes of transformation." - Donald Evans