Shadows & Light (Volume 1) by Francis J. Kaklauskas, Carla J. Clements, Dan Hocoy, & Louis Hoffman

Shadows & Light: Theory, Research, and Practice in Transpersonal Psychology is a groundbreaking 2-volume series updating many essential topics in transpersonal psychology. It builds upon traditional topics to cover vital contemporary transpersonal psychological issues ranging from mindfulness and spirituality through social justice and sexuality. The range of contributors is broad, diverse, and inclusive and will bring the reader on many inward and outward journeys of human growth and potential.

Volume I is written is a traditional educational style with additional chapters covering cross cultural psychology, ecopsychology, finding one’s voice, the evidence based foundation of transpersonal practice, ritual, and much more. This volume includes chapters by established leaders such as Stanley Krippner, John Davis, Dan Hocoy, Pat Luce and Robert Schmidt as well as fresh voices with new perspectives on transpersonal psychology. The chapters are readable and personal, yet well researched and scholarly. These volumes are destined to become seminal texts in the field.

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These volumes bring transpersonal psychology into a more contemporary era and expand its application into new approaches for healing and growth. It is a pleasure to see new thinking that extends the seminal insights of transpersonal psychology into such areas as social action, diversity, and inequality, to connect the inner with the outer world, and to locate personal transformation in a context of social transformation, indeed as the most powerful form of social action. This is a much needed contribution to the field.

Brant Cortright, PhD
Author of Psychotherapy and Spirit: Theory and Practice in Transpersonal Psychotherapy
Professor of Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies


Drs. Kaklauskas, Clements, Hocoy, and Hoffman have pulled together an impressive display of talented Transpersonal Psychology writers who present the complexities of the theory and practice in a way that the reader can readily understand and grasp. The writings are applicable for numerous issues, conditions, and settings and will be a valuable resource that will enhance the teaching, learning, research, and practice in the field.

Nina W. Brown, EdD, LPC, NCC, FAGPA
Professor and Eminent Scholar


This collection literally has it all from scholarly reviews of the intellectual and cultural origins of transpersonal psychology through relevant research and moving personal experiences to contemporary cutting edge applications. It clearly demonstrates that transpersonal is alive and well as it passes from middle age to elderhood.  Timely, yet timeless.

David Lukoff, PhD,
Past Co-President Association for Transpersonal Psychology and the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology


This book takes the reader on a journey across time, cultures, and perspectives, arriving at a fully contemporary view of transpersonal psychology. A mindful look at impassioned living, this scholarly collection explores the crossroads of Human Science and Spirituality, and is a must read!

Donna Rockwell, PhD,
President Elect, Society for Humanistic Psychology (American Psychological Association Division 32)


Shadows and Light is a stunning collection of essays that enables the reader/ seeker to take a deep dive into a richly imagined framework for transpersonal education. It is a timely and elegant offering of contemplative-based theories, research, and practices. I predict it will be heralded as a triumph in the field!

Gaea Logan, LPC-S, CGP
Executive Director, Founder, International Center for Mental Health and Human Rights
Social Responsibility Award Recipient, Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health


This collection is filled with compassion and curiosity, hope and humility. By integrating contemporary research, multicultural and social justice perspectives, and the vitality of relationships with self, others, and the world, the essays and talks provide refreshing energy to psychological perspectives on growth, transformation, and finding one’s place in this often challenging world.

Pat Denning, PhD, & Jeannie Little, LCSW
Founders, The Center for Harm Reduction Therapy

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Published September 14, 2016
Paperback 342 pages
ISBN (print): 978-1-939686-16-9
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-939686-31-2

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Francis J. Kaklauskas, Carla J. Clements, Dan Hocoy, & Louis Hoffman

Chapter 1: History, Development, and Contemporary Perspectives of Transpersonal Psychology by Carla J. Clements, Francis J. Kaklauskas, Dan Hocoy, & Louis Hoffman
Chapter 2: Transpersonal Psychology in the Age of ISIS: The Role of Culture, Social Action, and Personal Transformation by Dan Hocoy
Chapter 3: Toward a Transpersonal Structure of the Psyche by Carla J. Clements & Uri Talmor
Chapter 4: Empirical Foundations of Transpersonal Counseling and Psychotherapy by Francis J. Kaklauskas & Lindsey Randol
Chapter 5: Imaginal Mindfulness―Imaginal Intelligence: Musings on the Languages of Shadow and Light in Art, Meditation, and Clinical Practice by Michael A. Franklin
Chapter 6: Oracle of the Ultimate: Contemplative Practice and Mind/Body Assessment in Transpersonal Counseling by Ian Wickramasekera, II
Chapter 7: Transpersonal Dreams as Spiritually Transformative Experiences by Stanley Krippner
Chapter 8: Exploring the Lived Experience of Meditation Instructors by Xiaodan Zhuang, Daphne M. Fatter, & Peter Grossenbacher
Chapter 9: Transpersonal Psychology in Education and Management/Leadership: The Creation of a New Evolutionary Paradigm by Pat Luce & Robert Schmitt
Chapter 10: The Transpersonal Potential of Psychedelics by Charles Walter Angelo
Chapter 11: Transpersonal Sexuality: A Paradigm Beyond the Normative by Satori S. Madrone & Debra L. Azorsky
Chapter 12: A Thousand Invisible Threads: A Pedagogical Tool Weaving Together Transpersonal Psychology, Sustainability, and Ecopsychology by Deb Piranian
Chapter 13: Awaking to Presence: The Potential of Ritual in Transpersonal Education by John Davis
Chapter 14: Know Thyself: A Most Appropriate and Yet Most Resisted Ancient Directive for the 21st Century Human by Sandy Sela-Smith

Index
About the Editors/Contributors

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