VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1 SPRING 2015

Editorial	1
Revision and re-enchantment of the legacy of psychology from a half century of consciousness research	3
1 Modern consciousness research and the dawning of a new paradigm	4
2 Holotropic states of consciousness	5
3 Holotropic states of consciousness and the spiritual history of humanity	6
4 Holotropic states of consciousness and modern psychiatry	7
5 Psychology of the future	8
5.1 The nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter	10
5.2 New cartography of the human psyche	13
5.3 The nature, function, and architecture of emotional and psychosomatic disorders	17
5.4 Effective therapeutic mechanisms	19
5.5 Strategy of psychotherapy and selfexploration	20
5.6 The role of spirituality in human life	25
5.7 The importance of archetypal astrology for psychology	28
References	32
About the author	35
Sophiology as an example of integral science and education in the slavonic tradition	37
1 Ethics within the edifice of knowledge	38
2 Three sources of knowledge	41
3 Pansophia of Comenius	43
4 Solovyov and sophiology	46
5 The Slavonic science of the Štúr group	49
6 Does introspective knowledge exist?	55
7 Incentives for pedagogy	70
About the author	75
On yoga in general	77
1 Yoga	77
2 Yogic practice	82
3 Yoga and intellect	85
4 Yoga for everyone	87
5 Conclusion	88
Acknowledgement	89
References	89
About the author	89
There is nothing to limit our freedom	91
About the author	96
A Comparison of spiritual traditions in the context of the universality of mysticism	97
1 Introduction	97
2 Several methodological ideas on comparing mysticism	98
3 Comparison of the chakra system	100
4 Theresa’s mansions as a system of chakras?	103
5 Conclusion	109
References	110
About the authors	111
The holy and dirty money of faith: shapes of religion in contemporary society	113
1 Globalization and secularization	113
2 Institutionalization of faith	114
3 Consequences of social control	114
4 Reasons and consequences of secularization	115
5 Freedom and responsibility	116
6 Contrasting expressions of faith	116
7 The ambiguity of own and alien	117
8 Sensitivity towards the strangeness of the strang	118
9 Experience of the Holy	118
10 Distinguishing positive and negative aspect of religion	119
11 New way of life	119
Acknowledgement	120
References	120
About the author	121
Multiculturalism in health care concerning judaism and holocaust issues	123
1 Introduction	124
2 Present state of a subject and analysis of interest	124
3 Methodology	127
4 Research outcomes	127
5 Discussion and developing policy context	133
6 Conclusion	133
References	134
About the authors	135
About Spirituality Studies	136

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