Section 9, Track 4

Section IX: Reimagining and Reinventing Bodily-Spiritual Health

Track 4: Extraordinary Challenges to the Modern Paradigm
(John Buchanan)

 

This track will look at how transpersonal psychology and parapsychology challenge the materialistic foundations of the modern worldview. We will explore how a Whiteheadian event metaphysics can help us better understand the extraordinary phenomena studied by transpersonal psychology, such as extrasensory perception, shamanic healing, near-death experiences, and psychedelic states of consciousness. Some broader implications of a transpersonally-informed Whiteheadian cosmology will also be examined.

 

SESSION SCHEDULE
Extraordinary Challenges to the Modern Paradigm

FRIDAY, June 5: 

Time	Details
11:00 AM—12:30 PM	John Sweeney:  Introduction: Hybrid Physical Prehensions
2:00—2:45 PM	Jim Carpenter:  First Sight: Integrative PSI Theory
2:45—3:30 PM	John Buchanan:  Whiteheadian Theory of Nonordinary States
4:00—4:45 PM	John Palmer:  Parapsychology
4:45—5:30 PM	Panel on Parapsychology and Transpersonal Theory – Carpenter; Grof; McDermott; Palmer; Aanstoos

SATURDAY, June 6:

 

Time	Details
11:00—11:45 AM	Stanislav Grof:  Revisioning Psychology
11:45 AM—12:30 PM	Panel on Transpersonal Metatheory – Tarnas; Buchanan; Kelly; Gibson; McDermott; Grof
2:00—2:45 PM	Robert McDermott:  Steiner and Whitehead’s Esoteric Philosophy
2:45—3:30 PM	Panel on Transpersonal Elements in Whitehead’s Thought – Weiss; Gibson; Odin; McDermott; Aanstoos
4:00—4:45 PM	Eric Weiss:  OBEs and Transphysical Process Metaphysics.
4:45—5:30 PM	Panel on the Metaphysical Status of the Subtle Realm – Odin; Epperson; Segall; Buchanan; Gibson; Weiss

SUNDAY, June 7:

Time	Details
11:00—11:45 AM	John Grim:  Shamanism
11:45 AM—12:30 PM	Panel on Premodern and Postmodern Worldviews – Tarnas; Grof; McDermott; Grim ;Tillinger
2:00—2:45 PM	Chris Aanstoos: Toward a Phenomenological Ecopsychology
2:45—3:30 PM	Panel on the Meaning and Implications of Transpersonal Experiences          – Grof; Weiss; Grim; Buchanan; Kelly
4:00—4:45 PM	Michael Epperson:  The Whiteheadian Path from Quantum Physics to Psychology: A Critique of Selected Shortcuts in Parapsychology
4:45—5:30 PM	Panel on Anomalies in Physics and Transpersonal Theory – Carpenter; Weiss; Gibson; Palmer; Epperson Closing Thoughts

 

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