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Transpersonal Psychology was an outgrowth, the human potential movement in the late 1960s and it's associated with some of the

forward-thinking psychologists of that error such as people like Carl Rogers, the great humanist psychologist, the patient-client

centered therapy. There was Victor Frankel, man searched Search for Meaning, Fritz Curls, the Stalt Therapy, and Abraham Maslow,

we're talking a little bit about him, interested in the idea of having a modality that would set goals for

the therapeutic encounter that were far beyond what were the normative classical goals of what one would go to therapy for, such as dealing with obsessive thoughts or distorted thoughts or reducing anxiety

directly or self-esteem. They posited as the goal of the therapeutic encounter,

ego transcendence and self actualization. Now what the hell is that? Well that's my job to try to explain

them both and then I'm going to talk about the tools that they used to allow people to experience ego transcendence and self actualization.

And then in our practice today we're actually going to use some of the tools that were

popularized by transpersonal psychology. So this is your little toe into the pond.

So ego transcendence.

To understand what ego transcendence is,

we first have to understand what the ego is and the only reason why I'm

going to take a little time to define that is because today the word ego has been so misused and has been so essentially been associated with meanings that are not in any way what are clinically associated

with the ego and to understand what ego transcendence is.

So we have to have a sense on what the ego really is all that.

So the ego is of course in the in the last 120 years was a posited by Freud in his

tripartite view of the brain.

Tripartite means Freud believed there was three significant

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