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The Manchester Academy for Transpersonal Studies is
delighted to announce a forthcoming partnership and ongoing
collaborations with the Synthesise
co-operative, transpersonal studies centre in Manchester.
What do you mean by
Transpersonal?
Let us begin by asking who it is that is reading these
words right now. Who are you? Are you your body, your thoughts, your
memories, your opinions? Are you all these things all the time, some of
these things some of the time? Are you merely the accumulated memory of
all you have ever sensed and experienced? As you read this do you begin
to suspect that there is perhaps something more mysterious at play?
Where does this feeling of being arise from?
Transpersonal literally means to look beyond the
limited, self-imposed personal sphere, with the ultimate aim of
transforming or transcending this small sense of ‘I'. It is often
placed under the grand heading of Spirituality, the Spiritual
Dimension, Path and Experience. To this extent the Transpersonal realm
is concerned with Human potential and wholeness.
Transpersonal Studies includes the study of all the
world's great Wisdom Traditions, Philosophy (Eastern and Western),
Mythology, Anthropology, Mysticism and Psychology.
Growing interest in the
Transpersonal?
In recent years there has been an increasing amount of
interest in Transpersonal experience from the British Psychological
Society (which has a Transpersonal Section), and the Royal College of
Psychiatry (which has a spirituality special interests group).
Previous courses have been run at Manchester
University's Centre for
Continuing Education, to great acclaim. Due to their popularity it is
hoped that they may be offered at additional locations, open to the
general public
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