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 the  human psyche  used  in  traditional  academic
 psychotherapy is conceptually limited to the recollective-
 analytical level, this new cartography includes two addi-
 tional levels that are transbiographical.   These are the
 perinatal level, characterized by emphasis on the twin
 phenomena of birth and death, and the transpersonal
 level that can in principle mediate experiential connection
 with any aspect of the phenomenal world and with various
 mythological and archetypal domains. I consider the
 knowledge of this cartography to be indispensable for safe
 and effective inner quest" (p. xvi).
 In the second section, he presents for the first /time
 the basic principles of what he calls "holotropic therapy,"
 or "holonomic integration," which "combines in a particular
 way controlled breathing, music and other types of sound
 technology, focused body work, and mandala drawing" (p.
 xiv).  Grof notes that people find this method "to be an
 effective and exciting tool for self-exploration with an un-
 usual potential for mediating transformative and mystical
 experiences" (p. xiv).  It contains a special section on the
 effective healing and personality transformation mechanisms
 that operate in nonordinary studies of consciousness, and
 which have since earliest times had an important place in
 healing and shamanic rituals and in rites of passage.  He
 has attempted to rediscover these age-old practices and
 reformulates them in today's scientific terminology.  The
 book ends "with a discussion of the potential and the goals
 of experiential self-exploration utilizing the therapeutic and
 transformative power of nonordinary states of conscious-
 ness.   It describes how, in this process, emotional and
 psychosomatic  healing  is  combined  with  a    movement
 toward a more fulfilling strategy of life and a search for
 answers to the fundamental ontological and cosmological
 questions of existence" (pp.  xvi-xvii).  Parapsychological
 phenomena are considered in various sections of the book:
 ESP  and  OBEs          under "Transcendence  of  Spatial
 Boundaries,"  reincarnation   and  precognition       under
 'Transcendence of the Boundaries of Linear Time," survival
 and mediumistic experiences under "Experiential Extension
 Beyond  Consensus  Reality  and  Space-Time,"           and
 synchronicity, PK,      and RSPK under "Transpersonal Ex-
 periences of Psychoid Nature." - DT/R.A.W.
 02938.  Harvey, David. The Power to Heal: An Inves-
 tigation of Healing and the Healing Experience.                        Wel-
 lingborough, Northamptonshire, Eng. Aquarian Press, 1983.
 Annot bibl: 187-190; 4 graphs; 15 illus; Ind: 191-192
 Journalist Harvey surveys psychic healing, primarily
 in Great Britain.  He describes the work of the National
 Federation of Spiritual Healers and through depictions of
 the life and work of individual healers past and present
 provides a history of unorthodox healing (psychic, spiritual,
 and mediumistic).  The individual healers touched on are
 Rose Dawson, Rose Gladden, Harry Edwards, John Cain,
 George Chapman, and Edgar Chase. Harvey also presents
 the results of a survey he conducted of people who had
 been treated by healers with positive results.  The survey
 asked whether people had benefited from treatment, and if
 so, how.  It probed the circumstances under which any im-
 provement occurred, and the way in which the healing was
 experienced during the time of treatment.  There are chap-
 ters discussing how medicine can benefit from healers, a
 brief and selective survey of research on healing, and a
 summary of theories of healing.  There is an appendix on
 "Finding a Healer and Learning to Heal."   There is a
 select, briefly-annotated bibliography of 18 books on heal-
 ing. - R.A.W.
 Journeys in Sacred Psychology. Los Angeles: Jeremy P.
 Tarcher, 1987.  252p.  Chap notes; Glos: 235-237; 4 illus;
 Ind: 245-252; Musical compositions: 238-241; Selected bibl:
 242-244
 Houston is a past president of the Association for
 Humanistic Psychology and guides two schools, a three-year
 training program in human capacities and another that is
 directed toward spiritual studies modeled on the ancient
 mystery schools.  This work is based in part on her lec-
 tures and processes for those courses.  Emphasis is given to
 the "Search for the Beloved," of the soul. She points out:
 "In nearly all traditions, sacred psychology assumes that the
 deepest yearning in every human soul is to return to its
 spiritual source, there to experience communion and even
 union with the Beloved.   This relationship is then ex-
 pressed in the deepened and renewed forms of your daily
 life.   The emphasis on this union and transformation is
 what distinguishes sacred psychology from other depth
 psychologies.  Thus the methods of sacred psychology in-
 volve processes that enhance the connection between the
 historical self and the ultimate reality.   These processes
 have the effect of regeneration, so that you come gradually
 to have an extended body, an amplified mind, a compas-
 sionate heart, an active soul, and a new life of high serv-
 ice. Through sacred psychology, you become a citizen in a
 universe larger than your aspiration and more complex
 than all your dreams" (p. xi).
 The book is arranged in a manner to encourage the
 reader "to experience sacred psychology as a developmental
 path" (p. xi), which is also the order in which she teaches
 the material.  Part I, "Perspectives," consists of three chap-
 ters that provide "the ancient and modern settings for
 sacred psychology" and that suggest "the premises from
 which the practice of sacred psychology flows" (p. xi).  Part
 2 (five chapters) provides "basic exercises" aimed at attun-
 ing body and mind to experience sacred psychology.  Three
 of these chapters may have import for parapsychology.
 They are on "extending the senses," training the creative
 imagination, and "developing the imaginal body." Part 3
 consists of three chapters about "the basic themes and
 mythic structures from which  this work springs,  and
 provides experiential processes relevant to these themes" (p.
 xi).  Two chapters of stories comprise Part 4, in which the
 reader is "invited to participate (preferably with a group)
 in the actual living journey of transformation drawn from
 two great scenarios of the journey of the soul.   In re-
 creating and harvesting these old stories, you are chal-
 lenged to discover within yourself the new story that is
 emerging" (p. xii).  There is a glossary, list of musical com-
 positions, and a selected bibliography aimed at assisting the
 reader to enhance his or her experience and understanding
 of sacred psychology. - R.A.W.
 02940.   Howard,  Colin F. Slowmotional Meditation
 (Bradykinesthesia). Arlington,  VA: Olam Publications,
 1987. 359p. Chap notes; 4 figs
 The author has pioneered and here describes a new
 way to achieve transcendent experiences via slowed physi-
 cal movements, or "slowmotional meditation."  Howard has
 discovered that "a slower than normal rate for perceiving
 our own movements, as well as the motion all around us,
 opens up a new or different dimension. Simply by slowing
 our normal actions we consciously "merge with motion"
 while still remaining functional and observant" (p. 10).  He
 has developed techniques of meditating with movement,
 and uses "Bradykinesthesia" (BK) as the technical term for
 it.  BK generates KI, or kinetic imagery.  On p. 115 he
 suggests that KZ may be associated with parapsychological
 phenomena.   By following this technique experiences of
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