Transpersonal psychotherapy and the exten¬ded cartography of the human psyche

Abstract

The article describes the extended cartography of the human psyche as seen and used by practitioners of transpersonal methods of psychotherapy, particularly the methods developed under the influence of the psychiatrist dr. Stanislav Grof, who is one of the founding fathers of transpersonal psychotherapy. The article continues by showing what the new cartography means for our understanding of the world and con­sciousness as we know it from the viewpoint of the classical scientific-mechanistic paradigm.