Transpersonal Psychology (Independent Degree Program): Overview

The Transpersonal Psychology program at Burlington College integrates and expands upon our understanding of the intersection of body, mind, and spirit through western psychological inquiry, drawing upon both Western science and the wisdom traditions of the East, West and Indigenous peoples. Our program will foster an understanding of the background and tradition transpersonal psychology represents and its potential evolution.

Transpersonal Psychology regards human beings in a holistic manner as integration of body, mind, and spirit. By body, we refer to the individual as manifest physically and in a social role. How may our development physically better integrate the individual self and the social self? Mind is reflective of the means of how we understand ourselves in relationship to ‘self’ and the world. Human community represents our various relationships that make up our lives and begin to interweave them into a complexity reflecting our aspirations and traditions. Eventually we face the question; how may I integrate my inner sense of self with that which is the world I live within? As we extend these analogies to the realm of spirit, transpersonal psychology embraces an understanding that spirituality underlies all, which is manifest.