Recent scholarly publications
by Alef Trust Faculty

2026

Black, G., Butzer, B., & Sheldrake, R. (2026). Memory within nature: A study of morphic resonance predictions on learning. Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 6(1), 11–37. https://doi.org/10.31156/jaex.27438

Canessa-Pollard, V. (2026). Integrating eco-therapy into coaching psychology: A dual case study of grounding, meaning-making, and emergent agency. International Coaching Psychology Review, 21(1), 55-70. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsicpr.2026.21.1.55

Canessa-Pollard, V., Oakhill, J., Garnham, A., Roberts, L., Anns, S., & Reby, D. (2026). The influence of voice masculinity and femininity on parents’ and teachers’ expectations of children’s academic and occupational competence. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-026-00505-7

Delorme, A., Yount, G., Abou Jaoude, M., Aimone, C., Taddeo, S., Stumbrys, T., Cannard, C., & Wahbeh, H. (2026). Lucid dreaming and sleep characteristics in posttraumatic stress disorder. Dreaming. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000331

Dyer, N. L., Sprengel, M. L., Stuldreher, I., van der Sanden, K., Brouwer, A. M., Velut, S., Ives, J. A., Yan, Y. & van Wijk, E. (2026). Changes in biofield measures and experienced states during meditation and breathwork practices: an uncontrolled feasibility study. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1623301. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1623301

Friedman, H. L. (2026). Robert “Bob” Henley Woody (1936–2024). American Psychologist. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001695

Friedman, H. L., & Bonner, E. (2026). The concept of awe and the construct of transpersonal self-expansiveness: Commentary on Katz and Franz (2026). American Psychologist, 81(1), 123–125. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001618

Friedman, H. L., & Brown, N. J. L. (2026). James “Jim” C. Coyne (1947–2024). American Psychologist, 81(1), 129. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001634

Garnham, A., Canessa-Pollard, V., Oakhill, J., Roberts, L., Anns, S., Banerjee, R., & Reby, D. (2026). The influence of voice masculinity and femininity on adults’ expectations of children’s academic and occupational competence. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-026-00505-7

Haldeman, D., & Hartelius, G. (2026). Differentiating third-wave cognitive-behavioral mindfulness from meditative mindfulness using a Gurdjieffian phenomenology of awareness. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 66(2), 315-334. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678221075868

Haywood, L., Stiller, J., & Canessa-Pollard, V. (2026). The felt-sense as a pathway to nature relatedness: an exploratory mixed-method study with university students. Journal of Ecopsychology, 6(2), 1-17.

Hicks, K., Cleveland, M., & Canessa-Pollard, V.(2026). Finding the words to say how you feel: experiences of using embodied metaphors. Counselling Psychology Quarterly. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2026.2616754

Kizytė, D., & Stumbrys, T. (2026). Nighttime comedy: The associations among funny dreams, various aspects of humor and dream characteristics. International Journal of Dream Research, 19(1), 150–157. https://doi.org/10.11588/ijodr.2026.1.114972

Lancaster, L., & Butzer, B. (2026). Navigating the global polycrisis – why a transpersonal perspective on consciousness is key. The Psychologist, January/February, 40–43.

Moore, L. (2026). Know thy other: Dialogic encounter and the presence of self and other in technoetic and ai-mediated new media art. Arts, 15(6), 127. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15060127

Passmore, J., Canessa-Pollard, V., & Prentice, J. (2026). Coaching outdoors: a biophilic perspective of the coach’s experience of client learning in nature. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2026.2641728

Shaw, J., Gandy, S., & Stumbrys, T. (2026). Transformative effects of spontaneous out of body experiences in healthy individuals: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 13(1), 104-120. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000324

Wheeler, S. W., Dinsmore, J. R., & Dyer, N. L. (2026). Subjective effects and characteristics of Salvia divinorum use from a retrospective large-scale survey. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000455

2025

Argyri, E. K., Evans, J., Luke, D., Michael, P., Michelle, K., Rohani-Shukla, C., Suseelan, S., Prideaux, E., McAlpine, R., Murphy-Beiner, A., & Robinson, O. C. (2025). Navigating groundlessness: An interview study on dealing with ontological shock and existential distress following psychedelic experiences. PLoS One, 20(5), e0322501. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322501

Buckler, S. (2025). The plateau experience and ephemerality: Ancient and modern perspectives on reducing death anxiety through the Stoics and the Samurai. Transpersonal Psychology Review 26(1), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstrans.2025.26.1.5

Buckler, S., & Moore, H. (2025). Transpersonal education: A glimmer of light to compulsory education? International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 44 (1), 52-69. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2025.44.1.52

Canessa-Pollard, V. (2025). A holistic approach to academic perfectionism with The SPACE model of coaching. International Journal of Coaching Psychology, 6, 4.

Canessa-Pollard, V., Anikin, A., & Reby, D. (2025). Chants across seven traditions share acoustic traits that enhance subjective relaxation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(35), e2506480122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2506480122

Colborn, M. (2025). What Lies Beyond: Consciousness, Science, the Paranormal, and the Post-Material Future. Essentia Books.

Dängeli, J. (2025). Fertilizing the ground for Post-Traumatic Growth with Open Awareness and Compassionate Companionship. Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal, 4, 16-30.

De Vitto, J. (2025). Exploring the self and parts of the psyche in the context of transpersonal coaching. Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal, 4, 6-15.

Dusek, J. A., Gao, Q., Kim, R. S., Abrams, D. I., Kligler, B., Dyer, N. L., Hansen, K., Roseen, E. J., & McKee, M. D. (2025). Patients Receiving Integrative Medicine Effectiveness Registry (PRIMIER) of the BraveNet practice-based research network: Results of the chronic pain cohort. Integrative Medicine Research, 14(2), 101141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2025.101141

Dyer, N. L., Rodgers-Melnick, S. N., Fink, K. E., Rao, S., Surdam, J., & Dusek, J. A. (2025). Evaluation of a Reiki volunteer program within two cancer infusion centers. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 69(3), e211-e219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.11.017

Evans, J., Aixalà, M., Anderson, B. T., Brennan, W., Bremler, R., Breeksema, J. J.,  Burback, L., Calder, A. E., Carhart‐Harris, R. L. , Cheung, K.,  Devenot, N.,  Gorman, I.,  Greń, J., Hendricks, P. S.,  Holoyda, B.,  Jacobs, E.,  Krecké, J.,  Kruger, D. J., Luke, D., … Yaden, D. B. (2025). On minimizing risk and harm in the use of psychedelics. Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice, 7(1), 4-8. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.prcp.20240128

Fernandez-Borsot, G. (2025). Artificial intelligence and the future of otherness: what kind of other can an AI be for a human? AI & Society, 40, 5409–5423 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02281-2

Geldenhuys, H. (2025). TCP journal editorial introduction. Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal, 4, 3-5.

Halliday, E., & Bockler, J. (2025). How transformative experiences reshape values, worldviews, and engagement with sustainability: An integral inquiry. Challenges, 16(3), 30. https://doi.org/10.3390/challe16030030

Hartelius, G. (2025). States of consciousness are central to a transpersonal critique of contemporary psychology (Editor’s introduction). International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 44 (1), iii-vi. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2025.44.1.iii

Hartelius, G., Likova, L. T., Haldeman, D. D., Sester, M., Elfers, J., & Tyler, C. W. (2025). Evidence that attentional stance shift is learned rapidly, reliably induces mindfulness, and constitutes a distinctive marker of cognitive Process. Mindfulness, 16, 1258–1272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02563-2

Kothe, K., Tassell-Matamua, N., Woollacott, M., Nahm, M., Roe, C., Greyson, B., Mutis, M., & Evrard, R. (2025). Impacts on Caregivers of Witnessing Terminal Lucidity in Children. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228251391552

Linders, E. H. (2025). Spiritual pathfinding: The meaning and process of self-agency in contemporary spirituality. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 15(1), 90-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/20440243.2024.2428685

Loh, N. & Luke, D. (2025). Exploring the role of psychedelic experiences on wellbeing and symptoms of disordered eating. Psychoactives, 4(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/psychoactives4010007

Machado Ferreira, A. S., Martindale, S., & Luke, D. (2025). Change in occupational burnout measures in emergency medical service workers after a psychedelic experience induced by a single self-administered dose of psilocybin mushrooms. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 9(1), 20-30. https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2024.00368

Malkemus, S. A., & Smith, J. F. (2025). Sexual disembodiment: Sexual energy, trauma, and the body. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 65(5), 1137-1162. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167821996144

McCormick, T. H., Grams, G., Wise, F. A., Burns, M., Charania, A., St Germain-Sehr, N., Roe, C., Cooper, C. E., Lorimer, D., Elsaesser, E., & Penberthy, J. K. (2025). Differences in After-Death Communications: A Comparative Analysis of Unexpected vs. Expected Deaths and Their Impact on Survivors’ Grief and Perception of Death. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228251376896

Michael, P., Fritz, P., Gosseries, O., Rousseau, A. F., Ancion, A., Ghuysen, A., & Martial, C. (2025). The central clinical relevance of near-death experiences in acute care contexts: Identification, prediction and management. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1544438. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1544438

Michael, P., Luke, D., & Robinson, O. (2025). An encounter with death: A comparative thematic & content analysis of naturalistic DMT experiences and the near-death experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1532937. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1532937

Nielsen, A., Dyer, N. L., Faryar, K., & Dusek, J. A. (2025). Therapeutic mechanisms of acupuncture therapy for acute pain in the Emergency Department. Integrative Medicine Research, 101283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2025.101283

Nutt, D. J., Erritzoe, D., Schlag, A., Luke, D., Mash, D. C., Uchida, H., Aday, J. S., Rucker, J., Galindo, L., Sweeney, M., Lowe, M. X., Davis, O., Ferreira, P., Zafar, R., Carhart-Harris, R., Hawrot, T., & Neill, J. (2025). A lexicon for psychedelic research and treatment. Drug Science, Policy and Law11, 20503245251380511. https://doi.org/10.1177/20503245251380511

Prasad, K., Dyer, N. L., St Sauver, J., Drost, M. S., Prasad, V., Baldwin, A. L., Soderlind, J. N., Croghan, I. T, Wahner-Roedler, D. L., Hassan, A.,  & Bauer, B. A. (2025). Effect of Reiki on measures of well-being in low-income patients with mental health diagnoses. Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health, 14, 27536130251323581. https://doi.org/10.1177/27536130251323581

Prasad, K., Prasad, A., Dyer, N. L., Bauer, B. A., Soderlind, J. N., Fischer, K. M., Croghan, I. T., Kaufman, C. C, Rosmarin, D. H., & Wahner-Roedler, D. L. (2025). Use of complementary and integrative medicine among low-income persons with mental health disorders. Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 9(1), 100585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2024.11.002

Robinson, O. C., Evans, J., McAlpine, R. G., Argyri, E. K., & Luke, D. (2025). An investigation into the varieties of extended difficulties following psychedelic drug use: Duration, severity and helpful coping strategies. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 9(2), 117-125. https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2024.00420

Rush, M. J., Lancaster, L., & Lukoff, D. (2025). A service evaluation of the U.K. Spiritual Crisis Network. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678251357973 

Sexton, T., & Walton, J. (2025). Subtle Leadership: How Individual and Collective Consciousness Intertwine to Create Change. Action Research. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14767503251397885

Spooner, R., Taylor-Jones, J., & Canessa-Pollard, V. (2025). Vocal behaviour affects the expression of empathy in trained and untrained speakers. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2025.2470429

Sprengel, M. L., Teo, L., Allen, S., Ijssennagger, N., Hammerschlag, R., Dyer, N. L., & Crawford, C. (2025). Biofield therapies clinical research landscape: A scoping review and interactive evidence map. Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 31(5), 406-430. https://doi.org/10.1089/jicm.2024.0773

Stone, J., & Malkemus, S. A. (2025). A change in perspective: Mitigating burnout in UK hairdressers with a transpersonal coaching technique. Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology, 6, 48–61. https://doi.org/10.53074/cstp.2025.93

Štuikytė, G., & Stumbrys, T. (2025). Lucid dream poetry: An exploration into creative potentials of the lucid dream state. Dreaming, 35(Suppl 1), S82–S93. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000328

Taylor, S. (2025). Reconnecting to nature (Editorial). Transpersonal Psychology Review 26(1), 2-3. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstrans.2025.26.1.2

Tzioridou, S., Campillo-Ferrer, T., Cañas-Martín, J., Schlüter, L., Torres-Platas, S. G., Gott, J. A., Soffer-Dudek, N., Stumbrys, T., & Dresler, M. (2025). The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 169, 106011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106011

Yount, G., Cannard, C., Taddeo, S., Stumbrys, T., Delorme, A., & Wahbeh, H. (2025). Exploring the neural effects of lucid dreaming workshops: An EEG and HRV pilot study. International Journal of Dream Research18(2), 312–316. https://doi.org/10.11588/ijodr.2025.2.110366

Yount, G., Stumbrys, T., Taddeo, S., Cannard, C., Delorme, A., Kriegsman, M., & Wahbeh, H. (2025). Decreased PTSD symptoms following a lucid dreaming workshop: A randomized controlled study. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 9(1), 100510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2025.100510 

2024

Albareda-Tiana, S., Fernandez-Borsot, G., Berbegal-Mirabent, J., Regadera González, E., Mas-Machuca, M., Graell, M., Manresa, A., Fernández-Morilla, M., Fuertes-Camacho, M. T., Gutiérrez-Sierra, A. & Guardiola, J. M. (2024). Enhancing curricular integration of the SDGs: fostering active methodologies through cross-departmental collaboration in a Spanish university. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 25(5), 1024-1047. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-07-2023-0299

Bockler, J. (2024). Nurturing relational forms of presencing mastery. International Journal of Presencing Leadership & Coaching, 1(1), 7-23. https://doi.org/10.69470/a2xyrv69

Brown, D. J., & Luke, D. (2024). Psychedelics, psychic phenomena, and encounters with non-human entities. In: D. J. Brown (Ed.), Psychedelics and the coming singularity (pp. 320-339). Park Street Press.

Buckler, S., & Moore, H. (2024). The plateau experience and Chinese martial arts: A programme to enhance student self-esteem. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 25(1), 25-36. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2024.25.1.25

Butzer, B. (2024). Resting in the unknown: A story and (potential) explanation of meaningful coincidence. In M. Woollacott, D. Lorimer & G. E. Schwartz (Eds.), The playful universe: Synchronicity and the nature of consciousness (pp. 90-100). Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences.

Butzer, B., Kriegsman, M., Yount, G., & Wahbeh, H. (2024). An exploration of the associations between meditation, extended human capacities and synchronistic experiences. World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, 80(2), 133-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2024.2330289

Cooper, K., & Waterman, L. (2024). The renewal of a concept: Analyzing “innovation” through The Five Contexts Framework. International Review of Qualitative Research, 17(1), 69-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447241229770

Da, M., & Hartelius, G. (2024). Metaphysical foundationalist versus existentialist ontologies: Applications for research on psychological energy. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies. Advance Publication.

Dängeli, J. (2024). Post-traumatic growth with the support of transpersonal coaching. Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal, 3, 7-17.

Dusek, J. A., Kallenberg, G. A., Storrow, A. B., Hughes, R. M., Coyne, C. J., Vago, D. R., Dyer, N. L. & McKee, M. D. (2024). Acupuncture in the emergency department (ACUITY): Results from a BraveNet multi-center feasibility randomized controlled trial. Integrative Medicine Research, 13(4), 101095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2024.101095

Dvořáková, K., García Valladares, L., Butzer, B., Lange, C., & Greenberg, M. (2024). Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Professional Development Program for Primary School Teachers in the Czech Republic: A Quasi-Experimental Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(12), 1669. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21121669

Fernandez-Borsot, G. (2024). What is transpersonal psychotherapy? A conceptual template. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 43(1–2), 41–59. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2024.43.1-2.41

Friedman, H., Krippner, S., Riebel, L., & Johnson, C. (2024). Models of spiritual and transpersonal development. In L. J. Miller (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality (2nd ed., pp. 149-172). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190905538.013.7

Geldenhuys, H. (2024). Applied ethics in transpersonal coaching psychology. Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal, 3, 18-30.

Hartelius, G. (2024). The nondual realization of Advaita Vedanta does not support a theory of consciousness. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 43(1-2), iii-vii. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2024.43.1-2.iii

Hartelius, G., Muscat, S. A., & Bartova, L. (2024). Bridging the gap: an interdisciplinary perspective on ketamine in psychiatric disorders – volume II. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1471609. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1471609

Hunter, J. (2024). Halloween: Cultural and experiential entanglements. Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, 10(1), 3-6.

Lancaster, B. L. (2024). Judaism and the transpersonal. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies. Advance publication.

Lancaster, B. L. (2024). Book Review: Early Israel: Cultic Praxis, God, and the Sôd Hypothesis, by Alex Shalom Kohav. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 43(1-2), 259-264. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2024.43.1-2.259

MacDonald, D. A., & Friedman, H. L. (2024). Growing up and waking up: A conversation with Ken Wilber about leaving transpersonal to form integral psychology. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 64(3), 327-342. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167820902287

Malandra, O. & Dyer, N. L. (2024). Infinite perception: The power of psychedelics for global transformation. Collective Ink Publishing.

Michael, P., Luke, D., & Robinson, O. (2024). Smokable “vine of the dead”: Two case studies of experiencers of both changa and near-death experiences. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 43(1-2), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2024.43.1-2.1

Moore, L. (2024). Technoetic Magick: Explorations of the uncanny double as a noetic and magickal system through the complementary lenses of AI image-generation and AR. In J.P. Bowen, J. Weinel, A.Borda, & G. Diprose (Eds.), Proceedings of EVA London 2024 (pp. 232-239). BCS Learning & Development. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2024.42 

Moore, L. & Shanken, E. (2024). Roy Ascott. In C. Gere & F. Franco (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art: History and Theory. Bloomsbury.

Nielsen, A., Dyer, N. L., Lechuga, C., McKee, M. D., & Dusek, J. A. (2024). Fidelity to the acupuncture intervention protocol in the ACUpuncture In The EmergencY department for pain management (ACUITY) trial: Expanding the gold standard of STRICTA and CONSORT guidelines. Integrative Medicine Research, 13(2), 101048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2024.101048

Robinson, O. C., Evans, J., Luke, D., McAlpine, R., Sahely, A., Fisher, A., Sundeman, S., Argyri, E. K., Murphy-Beiner, A., Michelle, K., & Prideaux, E. (2024). Coming back together: a qualitative survey study of coping and support strategies used by people to cope with extended difficulties after the use of psychedelic drugs. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1369715. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1369715

Roehrs, P., Fenwick, P., Greyson, B., Kellehear, A., Kothe, K., Nahm, M., Roe, C., Tassell-Matamua, N., & Woollacott, M. (2024). Terminal lucidity in a pediatric oncology clinic. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 212(1), 57-60. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001711

Russell, T. (2024). Mindfulness-based therapies with bipolar disorder. In T. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of psychological therapies for bipolar disorder: Evidence-based and emerging techniques. Springer. 

Sandell, C., Stumbrys, T., Paller, K. A., & Mallett, R. (2024). Intentionally awakening from sleep through lucid dreaming. Current Psychology, 43, 19236–19245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-05718-x

Taylor, S. (2024). A new day for perennialism: the case for a perennial phenomenology, or ‘soft’ perennialism. Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, 63, 675–697. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-023-00985-w

Taylor, S. (2024). Back to our roots (Editorial). Transpersonal Psychology Review 26(1), 2-3. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstrans.2025.26.1.2

Taylor, S. (2024). Solitude without loneliness: Understanding loneliness in terms of psychological separation. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Advance publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241266983

Taylor, S. (2024). The adventure: A practical guide to spiritual awakening. New World Library.

Walton, J. (2024) As within, so without: Implications for research of Federico Faggin’s Irreducible. Paradigm Explorer, 145(2024/2), 3-7.

Walton, J., & Darkes-Sutcliffe, J. (2024). Re-imagining education: Cultivating a Triangle of Trust and Relational Pedagogy within a Participatory Paradigm. Education 3-13: International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education, 52(1), 7-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2023.2186978

Walton, J., Darkes-Sutcliffe, J., Charura, D., Mason, G., Bradshaw, E., & McGeown, E. (2024). Learning from COVID: recognising the centrality of the relational in early years practice and research. Early Years, 44(3-4), 615-630. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2023.2212330

Waterman, L., & Cooper, K. (2024). (Un)know thy “self”: Interconnected consciousness and different ways of knowing. The Qualitative Report, 29(9), 2527-2542. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.7653

Waterman, L., & Walton, J. (2024). Consciousness education: Why an enquiry into consciousness is an educational and spiritual imperative. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 14(2), 169–182. https://doi.org/10.1080/20440243.2024.2419613

Woollacott, M., Lorimer, D., & Schwartz, G. E. (Eds.). (2024). The playful universe: Synchronicity and the nature of consciousness. Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences.

Yount, G., Stumbrys, T., Koos, K., Hamilton, D., & Wahbeh, H. (2024). Decreased post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms following lucid dream healing workshop. Traumatology, 30(4), 550-558. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000456

Yount, G., Taddeo, S., Stumbrys, T., Kriegsman, M., & Wahbeh, H. (2024). Trends in waking salivary alpha-amylase levels following healing lucid dreams. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1347499. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1347499

2023

Anikin, A., Canessa-Pollard, V., Pisanski, K., Massenet, M., & Reby, D. (2023). Beyond speech: Exploring diversity in the human voice. iScience, 26(11), 108204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108204

Boeving, N. G. (2023). Book review: The myth of normal: Trauma, illness, and healing in a toxic culture, by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 42(1), 106-112. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2023.42.1.106

Buckler, S., & Moore, H. (2023). Essentials of research methods in education. Sage Publications, Ltd.

Buckler, S., & Moore, H. (2023). The proactive pastoral paradox of martial arts in an all-through school: quiet conversations, tea serving and Kung Fu. In D. Trotman, P. Jones, P., N. Purdy. & Tucker, S. (Eds.), Pastoral care in education: New directions for new times (pp.287-318). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Butzer, B. (2023). Humans as midwives for the earth’s dark night of the soul: A transpersonal ecopsychology perspective. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 55(1), 99-110.

Costa, M. d. A., Russell, T. A., Gosmann, N. P., Gonçalves, F., Tatton-Ramos, T., de Oliveira, F. B., & Manfro, G. G. (2023). Mechanisms of improvement in generalized anxiety disorder: A mediation and moderated mediation analysis from a randomized controlled trial. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(1), 196-208. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12402

Dängeli, J. (2023). Transpersonal Coaching Psychology: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice. Current Research in Psychology and Behavioral Science, 4(1), 1083. https://doi.org/10.54026/CRPBS/1083

Dängeli, J. (2023). Trauma-informed coaching: A transpersonal perspective. Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal, 2, 8-24.

Daw, M., Roe, C. A., & Cooper, C. (2023). How fasting and vegetarianism is perceived to support psi among adepts. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 55(1), 111-133.

Dumontheil, I., Lyons, K. E., Russell, T. A., & Zelazo, P. D. (2023). A preliminary neuroimaging investigation of the effects of mindfulness training on attention reorienting and amygdala reactivity to emotional faces in adolescent and adult females. Journal of Adolescence, 95(1), 181-189. https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12107

Dyer, N. L., Baldwin, A. L., Gray, F., Pharo, R. (2023). Evaluation of a distance Reiki program for frontline healthcare workers’ health-related quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health, 12, 27536130231187368. https://doi.org/10.1177/27536130231187368

Evans, J., Robinson, O. C., Argyri, E. K., Suseelan, S., Murphy-Beiner, A., McAlpine, R., Luke, D., Michelle, K., & Prideaux, E. (2023). Extended difficulties following the use of psychedelic drugs: A mixed methods study. PLoS One, 18(10), e0293349. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293349 

Fernandez-Borsot, G. (2023). Spirituality and technology: A threefold philosophical reflection. Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 58(1), 6-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12835

Forstmann, M., Kettner, H. S., Sagioglou, C., Irvine., A., Gandy, S., Carhart-Harris, R., & Luke, D. (2023). Among psychedelic-experienced users, only past use of psilocybin reliably predicts nature relatedness. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 37(1), 93-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811221146356

Friedman, H. L. (2023). Good, bad, or not-even-wrong science and mathematics in transpersonal psychology: Comment on Rock et al.’s “Is biological death final?”. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 42 (1), 72-79. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2023.42.1.72

Hartelius, G. (2023). Discussion of background reality assumptions differs from insertion of foreground metaphysical explanations. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 24(2), 34–36. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.2.34

Hartelius, G. (2023). How is the human pangenome project like a whole person psychology (Editor’s introduction). International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 42(1), iii-v. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2023.42.1.iii

Hartelius, G. (2023). Mathematical calculations for the finality of death? The Drake-S equation. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 42(1), 6-8. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2023.42.1.6

Hartelius, G. (2023). Nondual states are not a thing: This inspiring new age spiritual idea is neither Advaita Vedanta nor psychology (Editor’s introduction). International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 42(2), iii-viii. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2023.42.2.iii

Hartelius, G., Likova, L. T., & Tyler, C. W. (2023). Self-regulation of attentional stance facilitates induction of meditative states. Electronic Imaging, 35, 255. https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2023.35.10.HVEI-255

Hartelius, G., Muscat, S. A., & Bartova, L. (2023). Bridging the gap: an interdisciplinary perspective on ketamine in psychiatric disorders. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1246891. https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffpsyt.2023.1246891

Hunter, J. (2023). A world of many minds: Toward a post green vision of the future. In M. Sivaramakrishnan & A. Roy (Eds.), Post green: Literature, culture, and the environment (pp. 197-213). Lexington Books.

Hunter, J. (2023). Deep weird: The varieties of high strangeness experience. August Night Press.

Hunter, J. (2023). Ecology and Spirituality: A Brief Introduction. Sophia Centre Press.

Hunter, J. (2023). Through a Crystal Darkly: Cultural, Experiential and Ontological Reflections on Faery. In J. Cutchin (Ed.), Fairy Films: Wee Folk on the Big Screen. Educated Dragon Publishing.

Irvine, A., Luke, D., Harrild, F., Gandy, S., & Watts, R. (2023). Transpersonal ecodelia: Surveying psychedelically induced biophilia. Psychoactives, 2, 174-193. https://doi.org/10.3390/psychoactives2020012

Kilrea, K. A., Taylor, S., Bilodeau, C., Wittmann, M., Linares Gutiérrez, D., & Kübel, S. L. (2023). Measuring an Ongoing State of Wakefulness: The Development and Validation of the Inventory of Secular/Spiritual Wakefulness (WAKE). Journal of Humanistic Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678231185891 

Lancaster, B. L. (2023). Velmans and the transpersonal: Reflexivity at the core. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 30(1-2), 43-64.

Looker, B., Kington, A., Hibbert-Mayne, K., Blackmore, K. & Buckler, S. (2023). The Illusion of Perspective: Examining the dynamic between teacher effectiveness and self-efficacy. In R. Maulana, M. Helms-Lorenz, & R. M. Klassen (Eds.), Effective teaching around the world: Theoretical, empirical, methodological and practical insights (pp. 653-673). Springer.

Michael, P., Luke, D., & Robinson, O. (2023). An encounter with the self: A thematic and content analysis of the DMT experiences from a naturalistic field study. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1083356. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1083356

Michael, P., Luke, D., & Robinson, O. (2023). This is your brain on death: A comparative analysis of a near-death experience and subsequent 5-Methoxy-DMT experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1083361. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1083361

Moore, L. (2023). Screen Dance as Rite of Passage: An Artist’s Monograph. Cybernetic Scribe.

Penberthy, J. K., Pehlivanova, M., Kalelioglu, T., Roe, C. A., Cooper, C. E., Lorimer, D., & Elsaesser, E. (2023). Factors moderating the impact of after death communications on beliefs and Spirituality. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 87(3), 884-901. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211029160

Penberthy, J. K., St Germain-Sehr, N. R., Grams, G., Burns, M., Lorimer, D., Cooper, C., Roe, C. A., Morrison, S., & Elsaesser, E. (2023). Description and impact of encounters with deceased partners or spouses. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228231207900

Rock, A., Friedman, H. L., Storm, L., Jinks, T., & Harris, K. (2023). Transliminality and transpersonal self-expansiveness predict paranormal belief. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 10(3), 281–291. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000281

Stumbrys, T. (2023). Dispelling the shadows of the lucid night: An exploration of potential adverse effects of lucid dreaming. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 10(2), 152-163. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000288

Taylor, S. (2023). DisConnected: The Roots of Human Cruelty and How Connection Can Heal the World. Iff Books.

Taylor, S. (2023). Toward a Utopian Society: From Disconnection and Disorder to Empathy and Harmony. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 63(4), 537–560. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211025341

Walz, L., Lyon, C. H., Bright, G., Walton, J., & Reid, K. (2023). Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐19. British Educational Research Journal, 49(4), 711-730. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3865

Waterman, L. (2023). A dream-song for a New Paradigm: Impressions of the Students of Spiritual Science Symposium from a core member of the New Paradigm Navigators. Paradigm Explorer, 142 (2023/2), 28-29. 

Yagi, S. R., Napa, W., Awirutworakul, T., Ittasakul, P., Yagi, N., & Hartelius, G. (2023). Effects of a brief interpersonal mindfulness program embedded in a psychiatric nursing practicum: A controlled pilot study. Journal of Professional Nursing, 47, 46-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2023.04.005

2022

Bockler, J. (2022). Group Coherence: Its Shadow and Its Generative Potential. Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, 2(2), 173–182. https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v2i2.5059

Bockler, J. & Hector, F. (2022). Nurturing the fields of change: An inquiry into the living dynamics of holistic change facilitation. Alef Trust.

Bosch, M., Fernandez-Borsot, G., Miró I. Comas, A., & Figa Vaello, J. (2022). Evolving friendship? Essential changes, from social networks to artificial companions. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 12, 39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-022-00864-1

Brusewitz, G., Luke, D., Parker, A., & Puhle, A. (2022). Three studies of the relationship amongst twins between physiological connectedness and attachment. Journal of Parapsychology, 86(1), 25-26.

Burza, L., Bloom, T., Trindale, P, Friedman, H., & Otta, E. (2022). Reading emotions in dogs’eyes and dogs’ faces. Behavioural Processes, 202, 104752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104752

Canessa-Pollard, V., Reby, D., Banerjee, R., Oakhill, J., & Garnham, A. (2022). The development of explicit occupational gender stereotypes in children: Comparing perceived gender ratios and competence beliefs. Journal of Vocational Behavior134, 103703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103703

Cartei, V., Reby, D., Garnham, A., Oakhill, J., & Banerjee, R. (2022). Peer audience effects on children’s vocal masculinity and femininity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B377(1841), 20200397. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0397

Chiodelli, R., Jesus, S. N. de, Mello, L. T. N. de, Andretta, I., Oliveira, D. F., Costa, M. E. S., & Russell, T. (2022). Effects of the Interculturality and Mindfulness Program (PIM) on University Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 12(10), 1500–1515. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe12100104

Dusek, J. A., Gao, Q., Kim, R. S., Abrams, D. I., Kligler, B., Dyer, N. L., Hansen, K., & McKee, M. D. (2022). Patients Receiving Integrative Medicine Effectiveness Registry (PRIMIER) of the BraveNet practice-based research network: Outcomes of the PRIMIER cohort. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 71, 102904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctim.2022.102904

Dyer, N. L. (2022). Another dimension of reality. In M. Woolacott & D. Lorimer (Eds.). Spiritual awakenings: Scientists and academics describe their experiences. Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Science.

Dyer, N. L., Adan, F., Barnett, T., & Dusek, J. A. (2022). Assessment of healthcare professionals’ wellbeing during a peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in a healthcare system in Ohio. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 11, 2164957X221089258. https://doi.org/10.1177/2164957X221089258

Dyer, N. L., Ali, A., Baldwin, A. L., Kowalski, S., & Rand, W. L. (2022). An evaluation of the subjective experience of receiving Reiki: Qualitative results from a pragmatic effectiveness study. Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 28(9), 739-748. https://doi.org/10.1089/jicm.2022.0477

Dyer, N. L., Surdam, J., & Dusek, J.A. (2022). A systematic review of practiced-based research of complementary and integrative health therapies as provided for pain management in clinical settings: Recommendations for the future and a call to action. Pain Medicine, 23(1), 189-210. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnab151

Dyer, N. L., Surdam, J., Srinivasan, R., Agarwal, A., & Dusek, J.A. (2022). The impact of individualized complementary and integrative health interventions provided in clinical settings on quality of life: A systematic review of practice-based research. Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 28(8), 618-640. https://doi.org/10.1089/jicm.2021.0413

Elsaesser, E., Roe, C. A., Cooper, C. E., & Lorimer, D. (2022). Phänomenologie und Auswirkungen von spontanen Nachtod-Kontakten (NTK): Forschungsergebnisse und Fallstudien. Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, 22(1), 36-71. https://doi.org/10.23793/zfa.2022.36

Erlacher, D., Fujii, M., Tazuke, S., Sugiyama, T., Ganzert, F., Stumbrys, T., & Schredl, M. (2022). Lucid dream sport practice in Japanese college athletes: A questionnaire study. International Journal of Sport and Health Science, 20, 117-122. https://doi.org/10.5432/ijshs.202056

Family, N., Hendricks, P., Williams, L. T J., Luke, D., Krediet, E., Maillet, E. & Raz, S. (2022). Safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and subjective effects of 50 μg, 75 μg, and 100 μg LSD in healthy participants within a novel intervention paradigm: A proof-of-concept study. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 36(3), 321-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811211069103

Gandy, S., Bonnelle, V., Jacobs, E., & Luke, D. (2022). Psychedelics as potential catalysts of scientific creativity and insight. Drug Science, Policy and Law, 8, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/20503245221097649

Hartelius, G. (2022). What is transpersonal psychology? A concise definition based on 20 years of research (Editors’ introduction). International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 41(1), 5-19.  https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2022.41.1.5

Hartelius, G., Likova, L., & Tyler, C. (2022). Self-regulation of seat of attention into various attentional stances facilitates access to cognitive and emotional resources. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 810780. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.810780

Hendricks, P., Copes, H., Family, N., Williams, L. T. J., Luke, D., & Raz, S. (2022). Perceptions of safety, subjective effects, and beliefs about the clinical utility of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in healthy participants within a novel intervention paradigm: Qualitative results from a proof-of-concept study. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 36(3) 337-347. https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811211055855

Hunter, J. (2022). Gardens and Gnomes: Statues, Extraordinary Experiences and Subtle Ecologies” in S. Young (Ed.), The Wollaton Gnomes: A Nottingham Fairy Mystery. Pwca Press.

Hunter, J. (2022). Parapsychology and The Varieties of High Strangeness Experience. Mindfield: Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association, 13(3), 7-11.

Hunter, J. (2022). Review: Eco-Vampires: The Undead and the Environment. Gothic Nature Journal: Haunted Shores, 3, 285-290.

Irvine, A., & Luke, D. (2022). Apophenia, absorption and anxiety: Evidence for individual differences in positive and negative experiences of Hallucinogen Persisting Perceptual Disorder. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 6(2), 88-103. https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2022.00195

Ken Tanaka, G., Russell, T. A., Bittencourt, J., Marinho, V., Teixeira, S., Hugo Bastos, V., Gongora, M., Ramim, M., Budde, H., Aprigio, D., Fernando Basile, L., Cagy, M., Ribeiro, P., Gupta, D. S., & Velasques, B. (2022). Open monitoring meditation alters the EEG gamma coherence in experts meditators: The expert practice exhibit greater right intra-hemispheric functional coupling. Consciousness and Cognition, 102, 103354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103354

Lancaster, B. L. (2022). Review of The mystical Exodus in Jungian perspective: Transforming trauma and the wellsprings of renewal, by Shoshona Fershtman. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 41(1). https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2022.41.1.131

Legrand, T., Jervoise, A., Wamsler, C., Dufour, C., Bristow, J., Bockler, J., Cooper, K., Corção, T., Negowetti, N., Oliver, T., Schwartz, A., Søvold, L., Steidle, G., Taggart, S., Wright, J., (2022). Cultivating Inner Capacities for Regenerative Food Systems: Rationale for Action. United Nations Development Programme UNDP.

Luke, D. (2022). Anomalous psychedelic experiences: At the neurochemical juncture of the humanistic and parapsychological. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 62(2), 257-297. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167820917767

Luke, D., Lungu, L., Friday, R., & Terhune, D., (2022). The chemical induction of synaesthesia. Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical & Experimental, 37(4), e2832. https://doi.org/10.1002/hup.2832

Michael, P. (2022). Thanatotherapy: How psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and the near-death experience can mutually benefit one another. Psychotherapy Section Review, British Psychological Association, 67, 99–108.

Michael, P. (2022). The Death-Trip: A Case Study of Psilocybin’s Simulation of the Phenomenology and Long-term changes of the Near-death Experience. In A. Tollen, D. King, & D. Luke (Eds.), Breaking Convention: A seismic shift in psychedelia. Strange Attractor Press

Moore, L. (2022). Space-age goddess: The overview effect as a feminine archetype, evolving myth and participatory transpersonal practice. S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies, 1(2), 96-129.

Moore, L., Burello, A., & Boyce-Tillman, J. (2022). Studying spirituality and the arts: A transdisciplinary and multimedia approach. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 12(2), 171-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/20440243.2022.2130696

Muscat, S.-A., Hartelius, G., Crouch, C., & Morin, K. (2022). Optimized clinical strategies for treatment-resistant depression: Integrating ketamine protocols with trauma- and attachment-informed psychotherapy. Psych, 4(1), 119–141. https://doi.org/10.3390/psych4010012

Reeves, T. J., Dyer, N. L., Borden, S., Dusek, J. A., & Khalsa, S. B. S. (2022). “Making it okay”: professionals in high-stress environments construct their understanding of the impact of a yoga-based retreat designed to build resilience. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, 17(1), 2025640. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2022.2025640

Roe, C. A. (2022). From proof to purpose: Parapsychology as a meaningful lived experience. In M. Woollacott & D. Lorimer (Eds.), Spiritual awakenings: Scientists and academics describe their experiences (pp. 129-131). Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences Press.

Sonnex, C., Roe, C. A., & Roxburgh, E. C. (2022). Flow, liminality, and eudaimonia: Pagan ritual practice as a gateway to a life with meaning. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 62(2), 233-256. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167820927577

Taylor, S. (2022). Beyond Separation: Transpersonal and Spiritual Approaches to Well-Being. In S. Aris, H. Garraway & H. Gilbert. H. (Eds.), Mental Health, Spirituality and Well-Being: A Practical Handbook for Those Providing and Using Health, Social Care, Education and Allied Support. Pavilion.

Taylor, S. (2022). When Seconds Turn Into Minutes: Time Expansion Experiences in Altered States of Consciousness. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 62(2), 208–232. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167820917484

Tollan, A., Wyrd, N., Wells, H., Beiner, A., Luke, D., & Adams, C. (2022). Breaking Convention: A Seismic Shift in Psychedelia. Strange Attractor / MIT Press.

Walton, J. (2022) Politics of Knowledge. Paradigm Explorer, 138(2022/1), 3-6.

Walton, J. (2022). International Journal for Transformative Research – Foreword. International Journal for Transformative Research, 9(1), I-III. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijtr-2022-0007

Walton, J. (2022). The study of spirituality and consciousness through Bohm Dialogue. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 12(1), 86-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/20440243.2022.2050982

Wamsler C., Bristow J., Cooper K., Steidle G., Taggart S., Søvold L., Bockler J., Oliver T.H., Legrand T. (2022). Theoretical foundations report: Research and evidence for the potential of consciousness approaches and practices to unlock sustainability and systems transformation. Report written for the UNDP Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA), United Nations Development Programme UNDP.

Waterman, L. (2022). An experience in psychometry. In M. Woollacott and D. Lorimer (Eds), Spiritual Awakenings: Scientists and academics describe their experiences (pp. 213-216). Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences.

Waterman, L. (2022). Stories of a transformation in consciousness: A self-study to ground narrative inquiry research in consciousness education. International Journal of Transformative Research, 9(1), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijtr-2022-0004

Woollacott, M., & Lorimer, D. (Eds). (2022). Spiritual awakenings: Scientists and academics describe their experiences. Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences.

Woollacott, M., Roe, C. A., Cooper, C.E., Lorimer, D., & Elsaesser, E. (2022). Perceptual phenomena associated with spontaneous experiences of after-death communication: Analysis of visual, tactile, auditory and olfactory sensations. Explore, 18(4), 423-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2021.02.006 

2021

Bloom, T., Trevathan-Minnis, M., Atlas, N., MacDonald, D., & Friedman, H. (2021). Identifying facial expressions in dogs: A replication and extension study. Behavioural Processes, 186, 104371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104371

Bockler, J. (2021). Presencing with Soul: Transpersonal Perspectives on Awareness-Based Social Change Practice. Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, 1(1), 15–33. https://doi.org/10.47061/jabsc.v1i1.471

Boeving, N. G. (2021). Book review: Decoding Jung’s metaphysics: The archetypal semantics of an experiential universe. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(2), 121-128. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2021.40.2.121

Buckler, S. (2021). How to Challenge the System and Become a Better Teacher. Corwin/Sage Publications.

Buckler, S., & Woodward, A. (2021). Development and validation of a plateau experience psychometric to investigate the effect of shinrin-yoku (森 林 浴) on depression. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 22(2), 66-77. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.66

Butzer, B. (2021). A consideration of transpersonal research methods for studying yoga and mindfulness in schools. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(2), 31-49. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2021.40.2.31

Butzer, B. (2021). Does synchronicity point us toward the fundamental nature of consciousness? An exploration of psychology, ontology, and research prospects. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 28(3-4), 29-54.

Cartei, V., Oakhill, J., Garnham, A., Banerjee, R., & Reby, D. (2021). Voice cues influence children’s assessment of adults’ occupational competence. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 45(2), 281-296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-020-00354-y

Castle, P., & Buckler, S. (2021). Psychology for Teachers (3rd ed.). Sage Publications.

Corneille, J., & Luke, D. (2021). Spontaneous spiritual awakenings: Phenomenology, altered states, individual differences, and well-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 720579. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720579

De Vitto, J. (2021). Reiki practitioners’ experiences of self-healing and transformation: An intuitive inquiry. Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology, 2, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.53074/cstp.2021.18

Elsaesser, E., Roe, C. A., Cooper, C. E., & Lorimer, D. (2021). The phenomenology and impact of hallucinations concerning the deceased. BJPsychOpen, 7(5), e148. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.960

Evrard, R., Dollander, M., Elsaesser, E., Cooper, C., Lorimer, D., & Roe, C. (2021). Expériences exceptionnelles nécrophaniques et deuil paradoxal: études de la phénoménologie et des répercussions des vécus effrayants de contact avec les défunts. L’Évolution Psychiatrique, 86(4), 799-824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evopsy.2021.05.002

Friedman, H. (2021). Foreword. In S. Krippner, D. Ellis, D. Paulson, & L. Riebel, Understanding suicide’s allure: Steps to save lives by healing psychological scars. ABC/CLIO.

Friedman, H. (2021). Glenn Hartelius: A leader in second wave transpersonal psychology. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(2), iii-viii. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2021.40.2.iii

Friedman, H. (2021). Romantic scientism and the potential of fractals for transpersonal psychology: Commentary on Marks-Tarlow’s “A Fractal Epistemology for Transpersonal Psychology.” International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 39(1-2), 162-165. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2020.39.1-2.162

Friedman, H. (2021). The Self-Expansiveness Level Form: A measure of a transpersonal construct. In A. L. Ai, K. A. Harris, & P. Wink (Eds.), Assessing spirituality in a diversified world (pp. 189-213). Springer.

Friedman, H. L. (2021). An approach to transpersonal psychology as a science. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(1), xvi-xxii. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2021.40.1.xvi

Friedman, H. L., & Hartelius, G. (2021). Harris Friedman: Pioneer of transpersonal psychology as a science. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(1), iii-xv. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2021.40.1.iii

Friedman, H., & Krippner, S. (2021). The future of transpersonal psychology depends on how it is positioned and what contributions it makes. In D. MacDonald & M. Almendro (Eds.), Transpersonal psychology and science: An evaluation of its present status and future directions (pp. 112-117). Cambridge Scholars.

Friedman, H., Bloom, T., & Trevathan-Minnis, M. (2021). Introduction to special issue on human-animal studies: Humanistic psychology contributions of Team Woof. The Humanistic Psychologist, 49(4), 573-576. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000275

Friedman, H., Radin, D., & Krippner, S. (2021). Parapsychology and transpersonal psychology in dialogue: Exploring ways these two movements could be brought into better alignment. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(1), 123-135. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2021.40.1.123

Hartelius, G. (2021). The origin (and future) of transpersonal psychology in an open scientific naturalism (Special topic introduction). International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(2), 50–63. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2021.40.2.50

Hartelius, G. (2021). Transpersonal psychology as an integrative psychology of the whole person. In D. A. MacDonald & M. Almendro (Eds.), Transpersonal psychology and science: An evaluation of its present status and future directions (pp. 98–111). Cambridge Scholars.

Hartelius, G. (2021). Transpersonal psychology: Trends in empirical research and diversity during the first five decades of the field (Special topic introduction). International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(1), 39–44. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2021.40.1.39

Hartelius, G., Crouch, C. R., Adler, H., Thouin-Savard, M. I., Stamp, G., Harrahy, M., & Pardo, S. (2021). Is transpersonal psychology in its second wave? Evidence from bibliometric and content analyses of two transpersonal journals. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 53(1), 9–30.

Hunter, J. (2021). ‘“…Not the action of mind upon matter, but the action of mind-matter upon matter-mind…”: A World of Many Minds in Archaeology and Ethnography (Editorial). Time and Mind: Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 14(4), 481-485. https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2021.2004343

Hunter, J. (2021). Deep Weird: High Strangeness, Boggle Thresholds and Damned Data in Academic Research on Extraordinary Experience. Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, 7(1), 5-18.

Hunter, J. (2021). MA Ecology and Spirituality: Background and Interview with Dr. Andy Letcher. Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, 7(2), 140-145.

Hunter, J. (2021). Religious Experience and Ecology (Editorial). Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, 7(2), 3-16.

Hunter, J. (2021). Stone, People and Place (Editorial). Time and Mind: Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 14(2), 179-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2021.1926776

Hunter, J. (2021). The Future of Research on Religious and Spiritual Experience (Editorial). Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, 7(1), 2-4.

Krippner, S., Rock, A., Friedman, H. L., , & Zingrone, N. L. (Eds.). (2021). Advances in parapsychological research, Volume 10. McFarland.

Lancaster, B. L. (2021). The faces of God: A kabbalistic “myth” and its implications for consciousness. In P. Dennison (Ed.), Perspectives on consciousness (pp. 277-317). Nova Science.

Lancaster, B. L. (2021). Transpersonal psychology: Mysticism and the science of mind. In D. A. MacDonald and M. Almendro (Eds.), Transpersonal psychology and science: An evaluation of its present status and future directions (pp. 33-42). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Law, H., & Buckler, S. (2021). Transpersonal coaching as a fourth wave therapeutic intervention: A position paper. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 22(2), 7-20. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.7

Leavitt, C. E., Butzer, B., Clarke, R. W., & Dvorakova, K. (2021). Intentional solitude and mindfulness: The benefits of being alone. In R. J. Coplan, J. C. Bowker, & L. J. Nelson (Eds.), The handbook of solitude: Psychological perspectives on social isolation, social withdrawal, and being alone (2nd ed., pp. 340-350). John Wiley & Sons.

Loewenthal, J., Dyer, N. L., Lipsyc-Sharf, M., Borden, S., Mehta, D. H., Dusek, J. A., & Khalsa, S. B. S. (2021). Evaluation of a yoga-based mind-body intervention for resident physicians: a randomized clinical trial. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 10, 21649561211001038. https://doi.org/10.1177/21649561211001038

Luke, D., & Spowers, R. (Eds.) (2021). DMT entity encounters: Dialogues on the spirit molecule. Park Street Press.

MacDonald, D., & Friedman, H. (2021). A conversation with Ken Wilber about the past, present, and future of transpersonal psychology. In D. MacDonald & M. Almendro (Eds.), Transpersonal psychology and science: An evaluation of its present status and future directions (pp. 60-78). Cambridge Scholars.

Michael, P. (2021). Commentary on After: A doctor explores what near-death experiences mean for life and beyond. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 39(3), 161-183. https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2021-39-3-p161-183.

Michael, P. (2021). Rejoinder to Bruce Greyson’s “Response to Pascal Michael’s ‘Commentary on After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond’”. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 39(3), 195-211. https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2021-39-3-p195-211.

Michael, P., Luke, D., & Robinson, O. (2021). An encounter with the other: A thematic and content analysis of DMT experiences from a naturalistic field study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 720717. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720717

Moore, L. (2021). Magickal visions of the ultra-modern woman: Reconsidering the feminine aesthetics of Moina Mathers and Maya Deren. In S. Terry & E. Barthold (Eds.), Making magic happen: Selected essays from the inaugural magickal women conference, 2019 (pp. 205-226). Magickal Women & Company Publications.

Moore, L. & Fender, O. (2021). Sentient: A social media environment as a conscious living system. In J. Weinel, P. J. Bowen, G. Diprose, & N. Lambert (Eds.), Proceedings of EVA London 2021 (pp.247-253). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.42

Muscat, S.-A., Hartelius, G., Crouch, C. R., & Morin, K. W. (2021). An integrative approach to ketamine therapy may enhance multiple dimensions of efficacy: Improving therapeutic outcomes with treatment resistant depression. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 710338. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.710338

Muscat, S.-A., Wright, G. D., Bergeron, K., Morin, K. W., Crouch, C. R., & Hartelius, G. (2021). Ketamine-Assisted and Culturally Attuned Trauma Informed Psychotherapy as Adjunct to Traditional Indigenous Healing: Effecting Cultural Collaboration in Canadian Mental Health Care. Behavioral Sciences, 11(9), 118. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs11090118

Roe, C. A. (2021). Review of Advances In Parapsychological Research, Vol 10, edited by Stanley Krippner, Adam Rock, Harris Friedman & Nancy Zingrone. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 85(4), 233-238.

Roe, C. A. (2021). Small wonder: Effect Sizes in Parapsychology. The Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research, 1, 4-5.

Roe, C. A. (2021). Smoke and mirrors: Reflections on the skeptical agenda. Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, 21(1), 127-131.

Roe, C. A. (2021). The Mote in Thy Brother’s Eye: A Review of “The 7 Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice” by Chris Chambers. Journal of Parapsychology, 85(1), 108-114. https://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2021.01.09

Sackwild, L., & Stumbrys, T. (2021). The healing and transformative potential of lucid dreaming for treating clinical depression. International Journal of Dream Research, 14(2), 296-308. https://doi.org/10.11588/ijodr.2021.2.81533  

Schlitz, M., Bem, D., Marcusson-Clavertz, D., Cardeña, E., Lyke, J., Grover, R., Blackmore, S., Tressoldi, P., Roney-Dougal, S., Bierman, D., Jolij, J., Lobach, E., Hartelius, G., & Delorme, A. (2021). Two replication studies of a time-reversed (psi) priming task and the role of expectancy in reaction times. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 35(1), 65-90.

Stumbrys, T. (2021). The luminous night of the soul: The relationship between lucid dreaming and spirituality. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(2), 64-74. https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2021.40.2.64

Taylor, S. (2021). Book review: Consciousness Unbound and the Question of Metaphysics in Transpersonal Psychology, Edward F. Kelly and Paul Marshall. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 53(2), 229-239.

Taylor, S. (2021). Extraordinary Awakenings: When Trauma Leads to Transformation. New World Library.

Taylor, S. (2021). The Problem of Pathocracy. The Psychologist, 34, 40-45.

Taylor, S. (2021). The Varieties of Temporal Experience: Time Perception in Altered States of Consciousness. In L. Kohn (Ed.), Coming to Terms with Timelessness: Daoist Time in Comparative Perspective. Three Pines Press.

Taylor, S. (2021). Transformation through loss and grief: A study of personal transformation following bereavement. The Humanistic Psychologist, 49(3), 381–399. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000172

Trevathan-Minnis, M., Bloom, T., Atlas, N., MacDonald, D. A., & Friedman, H. L. (2021). Black Dog Syndrome: Using dog facial-emotion recognizability to explore this putative phenomenon. The Humanistic Psychologist, 49(4), 616-629. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000252

Underwood, M. S., Bright, S. J., & Lancaster, B. L. (2021). A narrative review of the pharmacological, cultural and psychological literature on ibogaine. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 5(1), 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2021.00152

Vernon, D., Hitchman, G., & Roe, C. A. (2021). An implicit and explicit assessment of morphic resonance theory using Chinese characters. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 85(3), 129-144.

Walton, J. (2021). Social justice and action research: can we collaboratively create a new social movement with social justice at the centre? Educational Action Research, 29(4), 510-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2021.1939083

Walton, J. (2021). The Entanglement of Scientism, Neoliberalism and Materialism. Paradigm Explorer, 135(2021/1), 8-12.

Walton, J., & Darkes-Sutcliffe, Janice (2021). The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health and learning of young children. Project Report. British Educational Research Association.

Waters, S., Kanber, E., Lavan, N., Belyk, M., Carey, D., Cartei, V., Lally, C., Miquel, M., & McGettigan, C. (2021). Singers show enhanced performance and neural representation of vocal imitation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1840), 20200399. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0399

Woodward, A., Law, H., & Buckler, S. (2021). A triad of Taoism: Exploring the mind, body and spirit through Taoist philosophical perspectives. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 22(2), 58-64. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.2.58

Joan Walton

Social justice and action research: can we collaboratively create a new social movement with social justice at the centre?

Educational Action Research. pp. 1-16, 2021

Joan Walton

The Entanglement of Scientism, Neoliberalism and Materialism.

Paradigm Explorer (1). pp. 8-12, 2021

Joan Walton

The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health and learning of young children. Project Report.

Funded and published by British Educational Research Association, London, 2021

Joan Walton

The significance of consciousness studies and quantum physics for creating a spiritual research paradigm.

Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 7 (1). pp. 21-34, 2018

Joan Walton

The role of subjectivity: Response to Noriyuki Inoue. 

International Journal for Transformative Research, 3 (1). pp. 24-28, 2016

Joan Walton

Creating a pedagogy of vocational training for young people not in education, employment or training, in Rowell, L. 

Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research, 2015

Joan Walton

Integrating first, second and third person research to lead the creation of a learning organisation, in Pithouse-Morgan, K (ed)

Polyvocal Professional Development: Enacting dialogic professional learning through self-study, 2015

Joan Walton

The role of the transpersonal in transformative research.

International Journal for Transformative Research, 1, 1:25-44, 2014

Joan Walton

Active Participation in Learning: Students Creating their Educational Experience, in Dunne, E & Owen, D.

The Student Engagement Handbook: Practice in Higher Education, Emerald Publications, 2013

Joan Walton

Book Review of Carmichael, P. Networking Research

British Educational Research Journal, Vol 39: 6, 1076-1077, 2013

Joan Walton

Book Review of Farren, M., Whitehead, J. & Bognar, B. (eds) Action Research in the Educational Workplace

British Educational Research Journal. Vol 38, No. 1, pp 178-180, 2012

Joan Walton

Family Literacy Programme in South Africa, in Atkin, C.

Education and Minorities, London: Continuum, 2012

Joan Walton

A Collaborative Inquiry: “How do we improve our practice with children?”

Educational Action Research, 19:3, 297-311, 2011

Joan Walton

A living theory approach to teaching in higher education

Educational Action Research, 19: 4, 567-578, 2011

Joan Walton

How do we, individually and collectively, integrate research and practice to improve the wellbeing of children?  

Action Learning, Action Research Journal,  17:1, 65-91, 2011

Joan Walton

Integrating research and practice to improve the well-being of children

Assessment and Development Matters,  British Psychological Society: Vol 2, No.2, 2010

Joan Walton

Promoting Good Quality Care through Teamwork and Effective Leadership

National Children’s Bureau, 2009

Joan Walton

Team Development Programme

Russell House Publishing, 2009

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