Knowing the mystical: The Melchizedek Mystery School, transpersonal psychology, and therapy.

摘要

This study examines the mystery school experience as fostered by the Melchizedek Mystery School, and the theory and practice of mysticism and the mystery school as it relates to transpersonal psychology. An overview of mysticism, of the mystical experience, of mystery schools, and of the relationship of transpersonal psychology to mysticism references recent scholarship in religious studies, esoteric traditions, and psychology and history. This study cites spiritualists, historians, and psychologists, psychiatrists, and others in the psychology field. A composite description of the mystery school process is presented, based on an eyewitness account. The Melchizedek Mystery School teachings and experience are analyzed in relationship to transpersonal psychology as related to the concepts of personal identity, karma and reincarnation, chakras, personality theory, ecology, personal harmony, and individual life purpose. The Melchizedek Mystery School teachings and experience are compared to transpersonal psychology theory from transpersonalists such as Frances Vaughn, Charles Tart, and Ken Wilber. The study also discusses the therapeutic relationship between facilitator, counselor or psychotherapist, and client, grounded in the transpersonal context of the Melchizedek Mystery School teachings and experience.