Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt
The Transpersonal Dimension of Growth In Psychology and
Expanding the Phenomena of Otherness
Neal Klein, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Lesley University
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Two Dimensional YOU!
He’s at it again. My younger brother Nicholas has the strangest ideas. The problem is that they sometimes make so much sense to me. The precocious boy read dad’s college-level developmental psychology textbook over school break and now he thinks we have it only half right and are omitting a really important part that’s needed for our healthy development. So here’s how it goes (or rather here’s how I understand his ramblings/insights.) “We simultaneously live on two levels,” he screams. This is what’s normal for our species. We need to know this if we are ever to understand what’s going on and our place in it.
Obstacles Becoming Your Path
Finding lasting joy, success and inspiration are wonderful goals. However, what most of us don't take into account is that it's not about reaching the goal, the mountaintop, that holds much of the potential for inspirational change. It is the journey or steps involved, the moment to moment sense of wonder the leaks into our very being.
When you read a good mystery novel, or watch an exciting movie, is it the end that holds your interest? Certainly getting to the end matters, but what holds your interest? It is the events leading up to the final outcome, the clues and explorations that help unravel the mystery. The moment by moment excitement the builds to the final outcome.
In your life, what holds your interest? What excites you? What final outcome will your journey bring you to? What mountaintops call to you?