Transpersonal psychology

Transpersonal Psychology is a hypothesis of mental health masquerading as legitimate psychology. Transpersonal psychology is based on the notion that trauma in past lives, birth, gestation and disconnection from God/energy/transcendent/soul has left everyone sick. Practitioners attempt to heal this sickness… usually at a large cost, which would not be a problem except they are treating a disease that doesn't exist.

Transpersonal psychology has fundamental problems: it has a multiplicity of definitions from within the field, it is based on metaphysics (which is unfalsifiable), it was strongly influenced by the New Age Human Potential Movement and it is lacking in a biological basis, peddling a wide range of pseudoscientific ideas, e.g.: • 2

Stanislav Grof coined the term but it has a long tradition; it has peppered the works of pseudoscience promoters, of all stripes and colours, since the eighteenth century including Jeffrey Sumber, William James, Carl Jung, Deepak Chopra, Bruce Greyson and Ervin Laszlo. According to Grof, shamans have something to do with transpersonal psychology and hold the secret for the Western world.

Frameworks used by transpersonal psychologists, such as by Ken Willbur, may lack outside reference points and thus lead to tautologies and ambiguity.

Transpersonal psychology may look like this:

Or this:

It's best to stay clear of these people.

Gems of transpersonal psychology
Abraham Maslow:

William James:

Stanislav Grof:

Carl Jung