07/30/08

"When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." - Shakespeare's King Leer

Transpersonal
Transpersonal psychology studies the transcendent or spiritual aspects of the human experience. "The study of humanity’s highest potential, and with the recognition, understanding, and realization of unitive, spiritual, and transcendent states of consciousness." Issues considered in transpersonal psychology include spiritual self-development, peak experiences, mystical experiences, systemic trance and other metaphysical experiences of living.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology

Anagnorisis
Anagnorisis, also known as discovery, originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for, what he or she represented; it was the hero's suddenly becoming aware of a real situation and therefore the realisation of things as they stood; and finally it was a perception that resulted in an insight the hero had into his relationship with often antagonistic characters within Aristotelian tragedy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagnorisis