The term transpersonal is generally used to refer to experiences, usually occurring during altered states of consciousness, that shift the focus of attention "beyond the boundaries of ordinary ego-consciousness" and in so doing expose the experient to realities that had hitherto remained hidden.
This is the subject matter involved with my main character in "GOING HOME" One of the stories you'll find in Volume One of my series "Tales from the Mind Field" now available on Amazon and on my website at: www.rmvcard.com
In 1989, Grof & Grof wrote:
"The word transpersonal refers to transcendence of the ordinary boundaries of personality and includes many experiences that have been called spiritual, mystical, religious, occult, magical or paranormal... In non-ordinary states of consciousness, these limitations [of everyday reality] do not seem to apply. When we enter the transpersonal arena, we can experience historically or geographically remote events as vividly as if they were happening here and now. We can participate in sequences that involve our ancestors, animal predecessors, or even people in other centuries and other cultures who have no ancestral relationship to us... But the content of transpersonal experiences is not limited to the world of things that exist in our everyday reality. It includes elements that western culture does not accept as objectively real: we can encounter deities, demons, spirit guides, inhabitants of other universes, or mythological figures... Thus, in the transpersonal state, we do not differentiate between the world of "consensus reality", or the conventional everyday world, and the mythological realm of archetypal forms."
Transpersonal experiences are, therefore, significant factors in the development of personal self-conception and broader cosmological perspective. They may take the form of religious, spiritual or paranormal experiences on the one hand; unity experiences, entity encounters, out-of-body and near-death experiences etc; or more subtle experiences associated with internal feelings, intuition and dreams on the other.
If you, or someone you know, has had a Transpersonal experience, tell us about it in the comments below.
• Going Home - Still falling, Emma reached for anything to grab hold of but her hand kept slipping off everything she passed. Her screams seemed silent, yet she knew she was screaming at the top of her lungs. Why couldn't anybody hear her? Why didn't anybody try to help? Emma’s eyes opened wide with a start. She’d been dreaming again, this time seemed so much more real than the last several times. Her earliest memories were only of this small quaint town here in Connecticut. The places in her dreams however were definitely not of this town. A truly psychological suspense story following one woman’s journey back to hell...
Read about Emma's experience in my book.
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About the author...
Born and raised in the state of New York, R.M. Villoria began his writing career as a prolific songwriter. After two back-to-back tours as a Marine in Vietnam, Villoria spent the next few years owning and operating a myriad of businesses and in 1992 returned to writing, this time appeasing his appetite for suspense and horror fiction.
Years in the making, his ghostly tales touching on the underpinnings of quantum physics and the paranormal are now ready for the public. As his first published work, Villoria presents readers with Volume One of his series “Tales From the Mind Field.”
Villoria has a son and daughter and lives in Las Vegas with his Wife.
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