“Transpersonal theories focus on experiences and developmental processes that carry a person beyond the sense of an identity bound to the individual body and ego” (Robbins et al., 2012, p. 379). Trans-personal theorists believe that there is a developmental stage that goes beyond the egoic stage of individual and into a transegoic stage (self is united with others). The theory is also importantly defined within the states of consciousness and spirituality. There is considered to be according to Maslow, two foundational concepts found within the transpersonal theories, self-actualization (inherent tendency for people to express innate potentials of love, creativity, and spirituality) and self-transcendence (completion and fulfillment of self in communion
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In utilizing these concepts, Maslow believed that the there is a hierarchy of needs that exists and that self-transcendence seems to become more superior when biological and survival needs are met. Maslow believed that there to be three transpersonal experiences: peak, nadir, and plateau. When these three experiences are able to be integrated together, the most profound way of being can be achieved. Other theorists such as Jung and Assagioli, used the trans-personal theory in the psychodynamic realm of thinking through the idea of individuation that brings together aspects of the psyche, introversion/extroversion relations to the world, and perceptions of the world to complete one-self. They utilized a topographical model to explain the psyche to be considered of four parts: personal psyche, preconscious, personal unconscious, and collective unconscious. In understanding transpersonal theory, Ken Wilbur broke down human development of consciousness into different levels: Preegoic/Archaic, Preoperational/Magical-Animistic, Late Preoperational/Magical-Mythological, Concrete Operational/Mythic-Rational, Formal Operational/Rational, Vision-Logic/Planetary, Psychic, Subtle, Causal, and Nondual (Robbins et.al,
In utilizing these concepts, Maslow believed that the there is a hierarchy of needs that exists and that self-transcendence seems to become more superior when biological and survival needs are met. Maslow believed that there to be three transpersonal experiences: peak, nadir, and plateau. When these three experiences are able to be integrated together, the most profound way of being can be achieved. Other theorists such as Jung and Assagioli, used the trans-personal theory in the psychodynamic realm of thinking through the idea of individuation that brings together aspects of the psyche, introversion/extroversion relations to the world, and perceptions of the world to complete one-self. They utilized a topographical model to explain the psyche to be considered of four parts: personal psyche, preconscious, personal unconscious, and collective unconscious. In understanding transpersonal theory, Ken Wilbur broke down human development of consciousness into different levels: Preegoic/Archaic, Preoperational/Magical-Animistic, Late Preoperational/Magical-Mythological, Concrete Operational/Mythic-Rational, Formal Operational/Rational, Vision-Logic/Planetary, Psychic, Subtle, Causal, and Nondual (Robbins et.al,