Comments on: Humanists and Transpersonalists make out in the alleyway of the Academy http://dreamstudies.org/2007/08/22/humanists-and-transpersonalists-make-out-in-the-alleyway-of-the-academy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=humanists-and-transpersonalists-make-out-in-the-alleyway-of-the-academy the dream studies portal Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:14:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark A. Schroll http://dreamstudies.org/2007/08/22/humanists-and-transpersonalists-make-out-in-the-alleyway-of-the-academy/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Mark A. Schroll Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:37:30 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=16#comment-77 Ryan knows how I missed this meeting, but I'm glad he was able to attend. Nearly 20 pages were devoted in my dissertation to reconciling the humanistic/transpersonal divide and I've yet to publish any of this. Hopefully this divide is now a fading memory and these two groups can form an alliance to help transform our current Western science paradigm. This spring I finished a paper I've been working on for 15 years titled, "Toward A New Kind of Science and Its Methods of Inquiry." I'm considering presenting this paper at the spring Society for the Anthropology of Conscioiusness meeting at Yale Divinity School in late March 2008, but this paper could also be given at a meeting of humanistic/transpersonal psychologists. The current abstract reads: This essay is a critique of EuroAmerican science???s limitations and humanistic anthropology and humanistic psychology???s contributions to what Daniel Halperin and Edith Turner refer to as a ???delicate science,??? that I call an integral/essential science. Second, this essay reflects on EuroAmerican sciences??? paradigmatic parameters that define and limit its methodological inquiry, specifically the emic/etic, ideographic/nomothetic problem. This encouraged me to champion ethnomethodology and ethnography as methods that could balance etic methodologies by providing emic narratives. I continue to support these emic methodologies, yet also examine their limitations, expressing the need for a synthesis and a transcendence of these views. Third, this essay examines the various obstacles that we will need to overcome in our quest to create a new kind of science that can include within it the study of psi/spirit. Ryan knows how I missed this meeting, but I’m glad he was able to attend. Nearly 20 pages were devoted in my dissertation to reconciling the humanistic/transpersonal divide and I’ve yet to publish any of this. Hopefully this divide is now a fading memory and these two groups can form an alliance to help transform our current Western science paradigm. This spring I finished a paper I’ve been working on for 15 years titled, “Toward A New Kind of Science and Its Methods of Inquiry.” I’m considering presenting this paper at the spring Society for the Anthropology of Conscioiusness meeting at Yale Divinity School in late March 2008, but this paper could also be given at a meeting of humanistic/transpersonal psychologists. The current abstract reads:

This essay is a critique of EuroAmerican science???s limitations and humanistic anthropology and humanistic psychology???s contributions to what Daniel Halperin and Edith Turner refer to as a ???delicate science,??? that I call an integral/essential science. Second, this essay reflects on EuroAmerican sciences??? paradigmatic parameters that define and limit its methodological inquiry, specifically the emic/etic, ideographic/nomothetic problem. This encouraged me to champion ethnomethodology and ethnography as methods that could balance etic methodologies by providing emic narratives. I continue to support these emic methodologies, yet also examine their limitations, expressing the need for a synthesis and a transcendence of these views. Third, this essay examines the various obstacles that we will need to overcome in our quest to create a new kind of science that can include within it the study of psi/spirit.

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