PARAPSYCHOLOGY ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL

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the human psyche used in traditional academic
psychotherapy is conceptually limited to the recollective-
analytical level, this new cartography includes two addi-
tional levels that are transbiographical. These are the
perinatal level, characterized by emphasis on the twin
phenomena of birth and death, and the transpersonal
level that can in principle mediate experiential connection
with any aspect of the phenomenal world and with various
mythological and archetypal domains. I consider the
knowledge of this cartography to be indispensable for safe
and effective inner quest" (p. xvi).
In the second section, he presents for the first /time
the basic principles of what he calls "holotropic therapy,"
or "holonomic integration," which "combines in a particular
way controlled breathing, music and other types of sound
technology, focused body work, and mandala drawing" (p.
xiv). Grof notes that people find this method "to be an
effective and exciting tool for self-exploration with an un-
usual potential for mediating transformative and mystical
experiences" (p. xiv). It contains a special section on the
effective healing and personality transformation mechanisms
that operate in nonordinary studies of consciousness, and
which have since earliest times had an important place in
healing and shamanic rituals and in rites of passage. He
has attempted to rediscover these age-old practices and
reformulates them in today's scientific terminology. The
book ends "with a discussion of the potential and the goals
of experiential self-exploration utilizing the therapeutic and
transformative power of nonordinary states of conscious-
ness. It describes how, in this process, emotional and
psychosomatic healing is combined with a movement
toward a more fulfilling strategy of life and a search for
answers to the fundamental ontological and cosmological
questions of existence" (pp. xvi-xvii). Parapsychological
phenomena are considered in various sections of the book:
ESP and OBEs under "Transcendence of Spatial
Boundaries," reincarnation and precognition under
'Transcendence of the Boundaries of Linear Time," survival
and mediumistic experiences under "Experiential Extension
Beyond Consensus Reality and Space-Time," and
synchronicity, PK, and RSPK under "Transpersonal Ex-
periences of Psychoid Nature." - DT/R.A.W.
02938. Harvey, David. The Power to Heal: An Inves-
tigation of Healing and the Healing Experience. Wel-
lingborough, Northamptonshire, Eng. Aquarian Press, 1983.
Annot bibl: 187-190; 4 graphs; 15 illus; Ind: 191-192
Journalist Harvey surveys psychic healing, primarily
in Great Britain. He describes the work of the National
Federation of Spiritual Healers and through depictions of
the life and work of individual healers past and present
provides a history of unorthodox healing (psychic, spiritual,
and mediumistic). The individual healers touched on are
Rose Dawson, Rose Gladden, Harry Edwards, John Cain,
George Chapman, and Edgar Chase. Harvey also presents
the results of a survey he conducted of people who had
been treated by healers with positive results. The survey
asked whether people had benefited from treatment, and if
so, how. It probed the circumstances under which any im-
provement occurred, and the way in which the healing was
experienced during the time of treatment. There are chap-
ters discussing how medicine can benefit from healers, a
brief and selective survey of research on healing, and a
summary of theories of healing. There is an appendix on
"Finding a Healer and Learning to Heal." There is a
select, briefly-annotated bibliography of 18 books on heal-
ing. - R.A.W.
Journeys in Sacred Psychology. Los Angeles: Jeremy P.
Tarcher, 1987. 252p. Chap notes; Glos: 235-237; 4 illus;
Ind: 245-252; Musical compositions: 238-241; Selected bibl:
242-244
Houston is a past president of the Association for
Humanistic Psychology and guides two schools, a three-year
training program in human capacities and another that is
directed toward spiritual studies modeled on the ancient
mystery schools. This work is based in part on her lec-
tures and processes for those courses. Emphasis is given to
the "Search for the Beloved," of the soul. She points out:
"In nearly all traditions, sacred psychology assumes that the
deepest yearning in every human soul is to return to its
spiritual source, there to experience communion and even
union with the Beloved. This relationship is then ex-
pressed in the deepened and renewed forms of your daily
life. The emphasis on this union and transformation is
what distinguishes sacred psychology from other depth
psychologies. Thus the methods of sacred psychology in-
volve processes that enhance the connection between the
historical self and the ultimate reality. These processes
have the effect of regeneration, so that you come gradually
to have an extended body, an amplified mind, a compas-
sionate heart, an active soul, and a new life of high serv-
ice. Through sacred psychology, you become a citizen in a
universe larger than your aspiration and more complex
than all your dreams" (p. xi).
The book is arranged in a manner to encourage the
reader "to experience sacred psychology as a developmental
path" (p. xi), which is also the order in which she teaches
the material. Part I, "Perspectives," consists of three chap-
ters that provide "the ancient and modern settings for
sacred psychology" and that suggest "the premises from
which the practice of sacred psychology flows" (p. xi). Part
2 (five chapters) provides "basic exercises" aimed at attun-
ing body and mind to experience sacred psychology. Three
of these chapters may have import for parapsychology.
They are on "extending the senses," training the creative
imagination, and "developing the imaginal body." Part 3
consists of three chapters about "the basic themes and
mythic structures from which this work springs, and
provides experiential processes relevant to these themes" (p.
xi). Two chapters of stories comprise Part 4, in which the
reader is "invited to participate (preferably with a group)
in the actual living journey of transformation drawn from
two great scenarios of the journey of the soul. In re-
creating and harvesting these old stories, you are chal-
lenged to discover within yourself the new story that is
emerging" (p. xii). There is a glossary, list of musical com-
positions, and a selected bibliography aimed at assisting the
reader to enhance his or her experience and understanding
of sacred psychology. - R.A.W.
02940. Howard, Colin F. Slowmotional Meditation
(Bradykinesthesia). Arlington, VA: Olam Publications,
1987. 359p. Chap notes; 4 figs
The author has pioneered and here describes a new
way to achieve transcendent experiences via slowed physi-
cal movements, or "slowmotional meditation." Howard has
discovered that "a slower than normal rate for perceiving
our own movements, as well as the motion all around us,
opens up a new or different dimension. Simply by slowing
our normal actions we consciously "merge with motion"
while still remaining functional and observant" (p. 10). He
has developed techniques of meditating with movement,
and uses "Bradykinesthesia" (BK) as the technical term for
it. BK generates KI, or kinetic imagery. On p. 115 he
suggests that KZ may be associated with parapsychological
phenomena. By following this technique experiences of
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