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Drawing on rare sources, many of which have not previously been translated into English, the view of Piaget and his work that emerges in this book is very different from the atheistic view of Piaget that is commonly held in psychology and transpersonal psychology. In both his early and later career Piaget held to an evolutionary view of spirituality reminiscent of the work of Hegel and Bergson. The spiritual future could be precursed by the individual in this life through the experience of immanence. Piaget underwent a spiritual emergency in adolescence, reported in early autobiographical writing, in which he encountered an array of experiences described in Eastern and Western mystical canons. For reasons discussed in this book, Piaget attempted to conceal his spiritual inclinations while tacitly confirming them in informal exchanges. This book not only describes the spiritual aspects of Piaget's life and work, it also builds bridges to both the contemporary transpersonal project and to contemporary psychology, by extending Piaget's own ideas to shed new light on transpersonal psychology and transpersonal philosophy, and on the future orientation of general psychology. The book validates the transpersonal project by showing its concerns to be germane to psychologyӳ most influential figure. The reader will learn as much about the history, present, and future of transpersonal thought as they do about Piaget.
Completing Piaget Project Transpersonal Philosophy and the Future of Psychology edition by Edward J Dale Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
This work literally extends Piaget's project in that it furthers Piaget's initial attempts to develop a link between science and religion.The text begins with an expose of Piaget as a transpersonal thinker and his interests in the experiential and the immanent but not the doctrinal. From the outset Dale is keen to open a window that provides insight into the spiritual experience, one that can also be understood through a scientific lens. Dale primarily wields the notion of scientific through various psychological lenses and at times brings forward perspectives from evolutionary psychology, among others.
Piaget viewed spirituality experientially rather than theoretically and was focused on the harmonious integration of mind, emotion and morality (9). God was to be understood as immanent not transcendent and mobile or developing as distinct from static. Moreover that the mystical was not something that was out of the reach of the everyday person, albeit a level of effort is involved, for most, in opening to the Ideal. Moving thru considerations of spiritual psychology and philosophy, Dale arrives at transpersonal psychology as being a dimension beyond spiritual psychology (30).
Dale asserts that religion matters more in peoples' lives than current science is open to admit. He asserts that spiritual experience emerge thru a heterochronic process which is marked by a variety of pathways that one can engage in/with, at differing times of life and through differing modes. Such an experiential approach poses a challenge for rational science since there is no one neat experimental design that one can use to (dis)prove the spiritual journey. The best Dale might assert is that we know, for example, how to make babies and we can predict the process, but we cannot predict what the new child will be like - the same with spirituality. There is a predictable journey to be taken but how it turns out is itself a mystery.
Now Dale works through this process of spiritual becoming thru a variety of psychological lenses. I would describe this as Dale bringing forward scientific evidence that there a variety of ways in which the brain can develop pathways thru which the spiritual can be experienced and that the evidence for both the fact that such pathways exist, or can be developed, is difficult to dispute. This argument reaches its pinnacle at page 175 wherein he identifies 7 distinct psychological pathways thru which spirituality can be experienced. Most of the text before and aft works towards or away from this key insight.
Dale does not seek to assert a pluralistic understanding of spirituality but at the same time brings forth the commonalities of the process across belief systems. Cognitively, he explores the brain's capacity for managing differing pathways and consistently brings forward the point that much work is involved in achieving this thing we call enlightened (well for most of us at least), while encouragingly noting that it is within reach of all.
For the positivist or psychological scientist wanting a handle on the push to spirituality, this book is great in that it goes away from the mystical and seeks to ground, on the available evidence, how we can understand the transpersonal, psychologically. In bringing forward his arguments, Dale cites a wealth of research material. Reading this book leaves one with the insight that science will catch up with what the rest of us have been experiencing for quite some time, but only if it can move beyond one model of creating or accepting evidence.
As one who is not so much into science as I am into spirituality and philosophy, I found myself happy to accept certain assertions and move to the next section without needing to take in the depth of research presented. But for others, the material will be deeply valued.
I read this book (367 pages) in a day - albeit I did not read every page. Our east coast was being whacked yet again by an east coast low pressure system - lots of wind and rain. We have just set off on our camping trip around Australia - so Dale's book made a good companion on a rainy, windy day as we sat out the storm.
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Completing Piaget Project Transpersonal Philosophy and the Future of Psychology edition by Edward J Dale Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
Great book. Excellent history of different sciences and transpersonal psychology. Begins with ancient philosophy and moves through medieval and early modern times to the 20th century. This isn't light reading, and is best suited to people who have already read some Ken WIlber, Stan Grof, or Irvin Laszlo. But the subject matter is so interesting that getting through it won't be a problem.
This is the first book to build a real path between transpersonal psychology and ordinary psychology. The book can make a difference to both subjects by getting them talking with each other sensibly, which they need to.
The book does four main things -
1 Brings together the work of Wilber, Washburn, Ferrer, Hunt, Maslow, and others, into one model . The model is based in “complex systems theory” and evolutionary developmental biology.
2 Creates a new version of the perennial philosophy based in math and the similar findings about reality in science and mysticism. But in this model religions remain separate and explore the religious universe together
3 Provides a comprehensive history of science and philosophy for context (the book is very detailed, the bibliography is over 65 pages on its own)
4 Makes clear that Piaget was a spiritual thinker who wrote books about spiritual life similar to transpersonal psychology books
It got very good reviews in transpersonal psychology. (As we might expect, for it is certainly as good as anything that has been written in the area). It also caused a stir in the Jean Piaget society email list. Maybe this is the moment transpersonal psychology will start being taken seriously instead of being ignored.
This book by Edward Dale has an impressive title and subtitle “Completing Piaget’s Project” and “Transpersonal Philosophy and the Future of Psychology.” He begins by reminding us that Piaget’s project was not just to develop a model of cognitive development; he called his work “genetic epistemology,” which means the study of the origin of knowledge. As Dale notes in his excellent volume, Piaget actually expected his psychological studies to take only five years after which he would return to continue his study of evolutionary epistemology; but the five years became a lifetime. According to Dale, Piaget wanted to create a framework in which the “good” could be viewed in scientific terms, and that Piaget’s goal was to demonstrate that the emergence of spiritual value in life was a result of ordinary, healthy human development.
Dale’s thesis is not only that Piaget’s project extends far beyond psychology to unify science and philosophy, but that Piaget’s spirituality was a force that continued to guide him throughout his life. He spends the first chapter making his case, supported by Piaget’s own writings, that Piaget’s mystical experiences were not confined to a “crisis of faith” in his adolescence but that his faith continued to guide his work throughout his life. He argues that Piaget deliberately concealed his religious views knowing that his targeted audience was committed to atheistic assumptions, an argument that is convincing and quite believable. Anyone who has ever tried to read Piaget’s actual writings can testify that he could have concealed absolutely anything in them!
The rest of the book ventures into a philosophical discussion of the foundation for a comprehensive model of human development, one that includes both the individual and transcendent aspects. Dale explains that his book is on the level of transpersonal philosophy – abstract reflections on the relationship between traditional spirituality and science – and does not claim to develop a transpersonal psychology, which will be achieved when transpersonal philosophy reaches scientific standards.
While this book contains a very exciting and hopeful message for the future of psychology, it may also be threatening both to those just embarking on, or well entrenched in, a career in scientific psychology. However, the rewards could be great. Despite the complexities and difficulties to be surmounted in achieving such a lofty goal, Dale encourages the reader that it is entirely possible. Just as the physical and biological sciences have had to embrace post-Newtonian non-linear concepts of relativity, chaos and more, psychologists can include spiritual phenomena which inhabit the “edge of chaos” and are subject to non-linear change. If physicists and biologists can do it, surely psychologists are also up to the challenge of going beyond the linear descriptions of positivistic science. Instead of criticizing the shortcomings of the details of Piaget’s theory, Dale offers a way to complete his project in a way that transcends the limits that we have imposed on his great work.
This work literally extends Piaget's project in that it furthers Piaget's initial attempts to develop a link between science and religion.
The text begins with an expose of Piaget as a transpersonal thinker and his interests in the experiential and the immanent but not the doctrinal. From the outset Dale is keen to open a window that provides insight into the spiritual experience, one that can also be understood through a scientific lens. Dale primarily wields the notion of scientific through various psychological lenses and at times brings forward perspectives from evolutionary psychology, among others.
Piaget viewed spirituality experientially rather than theoretically and was focused on the harmonious integration of mind, emotion and morality (9). God was to be understood as immanent not transcendent and mobile or developing as distinct from static. Moreover that the mystical was not something that was out of the reach of the everyday person, albeit a level of effort is involved, for most, in opening to the Ideal. Moving thru considerations of spiritual psychology and philosophy, Dale arrives at transpersonal psychology as being a dimension beyond spiritual psychology (30).
Dale asserts that religion matters more in peoples' lives than current science is open to admit. He asserts that spiritual experience emerge thru a heterochronic process which is marked by a variety of pathways that one can engage in/with, at differing times of life and through differing modes. Such an experiential approach poses a challenge for rational science since there is no one neat experimental design that one can use to (dis)prove the spiritual journey. The best Dale might assert is that we know, for example, how to make babies and we can predict the process, but we cannot predict what the new child will be like - the same with spirituality. There is a predictable journey to be taken but how it turns out is itself a mystery.
Now Dale works through this process of spiritual becoming thru a variety of psychological lenses. I would describe this as Dale bringing forward scientific evidence that there a variety of ways in which the brain can develop pathways thru which the spiritual can be experienced and that the evidence for both the fact that such pathways exist, or can be developed, is difficult to dispute. This argument reaches its pinnacle at page 175 wherein he identifies 7 distinct psychological pathways thru which spirituality can be experienced. Most of the text before and aft works towards or away from this key insight.
Dale does not seek to assert a pluralistic understanding of spirituality but at the same time brings forth the commonalities of the process across belief systems. Cognitively, he explores the brain's capacity for managing differing pathways and consistently brings forward the point that much work is involved in achieving this thing we call enlightened (well for most of us at least), while encouragingly noting that it is within reach of all.
For the positivist or psychological scientist wanting a handle on the push to spirituality, this book is great in that it goes away from the mystical and seeks to ground, on the available evidence, how we can understand the transpersonal, psychologically. In bringing forward his arguments, Dale cites a wealth of research material. Reading this book leaves one with the insight that science will catch up with what the rest of us have been experiencing for quite some time, but only if it can move beyond one model of creating or accepting evidence.
As one who is not so much into science as I am into spirituality and philosophy, I found myself happy to accept certain assertions and move to the next section without needing to take in the depth of research presented. But for others, the material will be deeply valued.
I read this book (367 pages) in a day - albeit I did not read every page. Our east coast was being whacked yet again by an east coast low pressure system - lots of wind and rain. We have just set off on our camping trip around Australia - so Dale's book made a good companion on a rainy, windy day as we sat out the storm.
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