John Firman’s scientific contributions

... Roberto Assagioli, one of the pioneers of transpersonal psychology, had a lifelong interest in spirituality, mysticism, and the occult. A student of raja yoga and the esoteric theosophist teacher Alice Bailey (Firman & Gila, 2002), Assagioli developed psychosynthesis, a theoretical and practical system of therapy and psychological development. Psychosynthesis explicitly incorporates spiritual dimensions of human experience, aiming to integrate psychoanalytic discoveries with spiritual traditions. ...

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Embracing the Unity of All Life: Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

... The integrative expansion of experiential range as a result of the practice of mindfulness and perspectival change promotes more extensive and inclusive interpersonal and intergroup interaction (Firman & Gila, 2002). Recognizing an interdependent and interconnected nature of human relations leads us to approaching the phenomenon of conflict from a perspective distinct from conventional dualistic or dichotomous logic. ...

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Exploring a Buddhist Peace Theory

... Similarly, the therapist who sees the higher unconscious subpersonalities as superior, and therefore more valuable than negatively-charged subpersonalities, may be unknowingly obstructing the client's healing as well. Only an approach which acknowledges that the split between higher and lower constitutes a wounding can facilitate the integration of the psyche, a healing of the primal split between the higher and lower-what has been called the "expansion of the middle unconscious" (Firman & Russell, 1993). ...

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Digging the Past

... Yukarıdaki vaka örneğindeki cümleleri kullanan kişinin durumunu göz önüne alarak bilinçdışı kavramları şu şekilde açıklanabilir: Kişi, 40'lı yaşlarında yaşadığı olumsuz bir yaşantısına kadar ebeveynleri tarafından reddedilmeye ilişkin hissettiği duyguların farkında değildi. Orta düzey bilinçdışını başarılı bir çaba ve kendini tanıma ile işlevsel hâle getirerek alt bilinçdışındaki bu bilgiye ulaşmış oldu (Firman, 1996). Onun yaşamının şimdiye kadarki kısmı, ona, reddedilme, depresyon ve düşük öz güven duygularını bilinç düzeyine getirme imkânını vermemişti. ...

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Psikosentez Kuramı - Roberto Assagioli / Psychosynthesis Theory - Roberto Assagioli

... Initially, we would offer to use the terms such fanaticism. On fanatics, the feeling of belongingness is complemented by a sense of exclusiveness and often superiority [see : Firman & Gila, 2006;Yack, 2010]. In this case, fanatics would intentionally have different level of empathy toward in-group and out-group. ...

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Social Distance and Empathy: Is There Such Thing as Selective Empathy?