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Volume 44 Association for THE JOURNAL TRANSPERSONAL OF PSYCHOLOGY Number 2, 2012 Transpersonal Psychology Membership Includes: One-year subscription to The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology (two issues) Subscription to the ATP Newsletter In Memoriam William Braud, Ph.D. Professional Members Listing November 26, 1942—May 13, 2012 Listings of Schools and Programs Editor’s Note v * Membership Dues: Regular—$75 per year Remembering William Braud (1942–2012): Professional—$95 per year Recollections from a Student and Friend Jay Dufrechou 117 Student—$55 per year Revision and Re-Enchantment of Psychology: Supporting—$175 per year Legacy of a Half a Century of Consciousness Research Stanislav Grof 137 Further Information: Descriptive brochure and Organizational Soul-Thieves: A Shamanic Take on membership forms available Bureaupathology David Kowalewski 164 upon request The Experience of Grace: Divine Assistance in Jacelyn C. Bronte Association for Transpersonal Psychology Making a Change Jenny Wade 182 P.O. Box 50187 VOLUME 44 VOLUME Toward a General Theory of Enaction: Biological, Palo Alto, California 94303 Transpersonal, and Phenomenological Dimensions Samuel Arthur Malkemus 201 This Association is a Division of the Transpersonal Institute, On the Question of Sanity: Buddhist and Existential a Non-Profit Tax-Exempt Organization. Perspectives G. Kenneth Bradford 224 Visit the ATP and Journal Web page NUMBER 2 Book Reviews at Transforming self and others through research. www.atpweb.org Transpersonal research methods and skills for the human sciences and humanities. R. Anderson and W. Braud Miles A. Vich 240 *The website has more detailed information and ordering forms Soul to soul: Communications from the heart. G. Zukav Sahibou Oumarou 243 for membership (including international), subscriptions, 2012 JTP CD Archive, ATP’s other publications, Growing whole: Self-realization for the great and a chronological list of Journal articles, 1969 to the current volume. turning. M. Young Brown Joshua Rutt 245 Manuel clinique des expériences extraordinaires [Clinical manual of exceptional human experiences]. [Written in French]. S. Allix and P. Bernstein Fabrice Nye 246 Series: Wisdom of the transpersonal. H. Marshall Hazel Guest 251 Books Our Editors are Reading 255 ISSN: 0022-524X EDITOR Marcie Boucouvalas ASSOCIATE Douglas A. MacDonald (Research) EDITOR EDITORIAL Carla Pacalo ASSISTANT BOOK REVIEW Arthur Hastings EDITOR BOOK REVIEW Lauren Bracciodieta EDITORIAL ASSISTANT BOARD OF Paul Clemens, Nevada City, California EDITORS Jack Engler, Schiff Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts James Fadiman, Menlo Park, California Jorge Ferrer, California Institute of Integral Studies Daniel Goleman, Williamstown, Massachusetts Elmer Green, Ozawkie, Kansas Stanislav Grof, Mill Valley, California Tobin Hart, State University of West Georgia Michael Hutton, Victoria, British Columbia Stanley Krippner, San Francisco, California Irene Lazarus, Raleigh, North Carolina Lawrence LeShan, New York, New York John Levy, Mill Valley, California David Loy, Bunkyo University, Japan Francis G. Lu, San Francisco, California David Lukoff, Petaluma, California Michael Murphy, San Rafael, California Peter L. Nelson, Berkeley, California Kaisa Puhakka, Half Moon Bay, California Huston Smith, Berkeley, California To˜nu Soidla, Institute of Cytology, St. Petersburg, Russia Charles T. Tart, Berkeley, California Frances E. Vaughan, Mill Valley, California Miles Vich, Palo Alto, California Jenny Wade, Corte Madera, California Michael Washburn, Indiana University John Welwood, Mill Valley, California PRIOR EDITORS Kaisa Puhakka, 1999–2001 Miles Vich, 1975–1999 Anthony J. Sutich, founding editor, 1969–1976 (1907–1976) BOARD MEMBERS Roberto Assagiolo (1888–1974) Sidney M. Jourard (1926–1974) IN MEMORIAM Hubert Bonner (1901–1970) Arthur Koestler (1905–1983) Medard Boss (1903–1990) Michael Mahoney (1946–2006) Alister Brass (1937–1987) Gabriel Margulies (1931–1981) Jim F. Bugental, Novato, California Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) (1915–2008) Walter N. Pahnke (1931–1971) Charlotte Buhler (1893–1974) Chogyam Trungpa (1939–1987) Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) Alan Watts (1915–1973) Alyce Green (1907–1994) Herbert Guenther (1917–2006) Robert Hartman (1910–1973) VOLUME 44, NUMBER 2, 2012 THE JOURNAL OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY Editor’s Note v TABLE OF Remembering William Braud (1942–2012): Recollections from CONTENTS a Student and Friend 117 JAY DUFRECHOU Revision and Re-Enchantment of Psychology: Legacy of a Half a Century of Consciousness Research 137 STANISLAV GROF Organizational Soul-Thieves: A Shamanic Take on Bureaupathology 164 DAVID KOWALEWSKI The Experience of Grace: Divine Assistance in Making a Change 182 JACELYN C. BRONTE JENNY WADE Toward a General Theory of Enaction: Biological, Transpersonal, and Phenomenological Dimensions 201 SAMUEL ARTHUR MALKEMUS On the Question of Sanity: Buddhist and Existential Perspectives 224 G. KENNETH BRADFORD Book Reviews Transforming self and others through research. MILES A. VICH 240 Transpersonal research methods and skills for the human sciences and humanities.R.Anderson and W.Braud Soul to soul: Communications from the heart. G. SAHIBOU OUMAROU 243 Zukav Growing whole: Self-realization for the great turning. JOSHUA RUTT 245 M.Young Brown Manuel clinique des expe´riences extraordinaires FABRICE NYE 246 [Clinical manual of exceptional human experiences]. [Written in French]. S.Allix and P.Bernstein Series: Wisdom of the transpersonal. H. Marshall HAZEL GUEST 251 Books Our Editors are Reading 255 EDITOR’S NOTE With deep sadness yet joyous remembrance we open this issue with Jay Dufrechou’s heartfelt essay tribute to William Braud, respected scholar, author, researcher, educator, colleague, friend and a compelling presence in the maturation of the transpersonal movement and field. How befitting that in this same issue Miles Vich, former long-time editor of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, offers a review of Braud’s recent book, co-authored with Rosemarie Anderson (Anderson & Braud: Transforming Self and Others Through Research: Transpersonal research methods and skills for the human sciences and humanity), written before knowledge about William Braud’s passing. One may want to read Dufrechou’s tribute and Vich’s book review in tandem with each other; each has the potential to enrich one’s engagement with the other. Transforming Self and Others …had been preceded by the authors’ earlier book (Braud & Anderson, 1998), Transpersonal Research Methods for the Social Sciences: Honoring human experience. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Other books reviews include Gary Zukav’s Soul to Soul, reviewed by Sahibou Oumarou; Growing Whole: Self-realization for the great turning, authored by Molly Young Brown and reviewed by Joshua Rutt, and from the UK long time transpersonalist Hazel Guest reviews a series of publications edited by Hazel Marshall, entitled Wisdom of the Transpersonal. In addition, for readers who have some degree of fluency in French, Fabrice Nye has reviewed the Manuel Clinique des Experiences Extraordinaires [Clinical Manual of Exceptional Human Experiences] by authors Ste´phane Allix and Paul Bernstein. The review, however, is in English. As a lead into the articles, transpersonal pioneer Stanislav (Stan) Grof,in legacy like manner, offers a window into his half a century (plus) of consciousness research and the manner in which his repeated observations have led him to challenge some enduring assumptions about the nature of consciousness, the genesis of disorders, and other matters. Although such a feat is compressed into an article length essay, nevertheless those new to the transpersonal field as well as more seasoned readers will benefit from thinking and reflecting with him, especially upon future research vistas that he illuminates and, accordingly, move forward in pursuing relevant research agendas for the field and beyond. As a concluding article, Ken Bradford explains to the reader that his discussion herein is the third and final article in his examination begun several years ago (including an article in this journal) regarding the ‘‘theory and practice of psychological diagnosis,’’ in which he has suggested re-visioning diagnosis and questioned the DSM. In this article he tackles the question of the underlying Copyright ’ 2012 Transpersonal Institute The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2012, Vol. 44, No. 2 v meaning of ‘‘sanity’’ from which diagnosis proceeds and offers challenging questions and considerations for clinicians as well as researchers. Another veteran transpersonalist and member of the Editorial Board for the journal, Jenny Wade, has teamed up with clinician and emerging scholar Jacelyn Bronte in an exploratory study that investigated the experience of grace or Divine assistance, especially in making a positive change, an area they stressed is a ‘‘universal yet under-researched’’ phenomenon. For their research, the change must have manifested and stabilized in the participants’ lives. Findings illuminated discernible categories of life experiences with which they were struggling and vivid vignettes draw the reader into those experiences, revealing some patterns regarding the dynamics of the experience. The voices of several first time authors to this Journal are equally strong. David Kowalewski, in a concerned voice, raises and attunes our antennae to a malady permeating an array of organizations—bureaupathology, an environment in which, he warns, employees can lose their souls (or their souls can be ‘‘stolen’’).