Abstract
It has been said within the Zen tradition: “If you meet the Buddha, kill him.” The reference is an admonition to accept no concepts, no ideas, no dogma but only one’s own direct experience of the spiritual, for the true Buddha lives within. If transpersonal psychologists are to benefit from the esoteric psychologies that are at the root of many spiritual traditions, they must surely value this admonition, for if spiritual experiences are more than myth and legend, they should emerge in any thoroughgoing and open-ended investigation of consciousness.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Arnheim, R. (1966). Toward a psychology of art. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Assagioli, R. (1972). Psychosynthesis. New York: Hobbs, Dorman & Co.
Beck, Aaron T. (1979). Cognitive therapy and the emotional disorders. New York: Guildford.
Deikman, A. (1974). Bimodal consciousness. In R. E. Ornstein (Ed.), The nature of human consciousness (pp. 67–86). San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
Grof, S. (1976). Realms of the human unconscious: Observations from LSD research. New York: Dutton.
Jung, C. G. (1968). Analytical psychology: Its theory and practice. New York: Random, Vintage.
Moreno, J. L. (1946). Psycho-drama. New York: Beacon.
Moss, D. (1978). Brain, body and world: Perspectives on body-image. In R. S. Valle & M. King (Eds.), Existential-phenomenological alternatives in psychology (pp. 73–93). New York: Oxford University Press.
Perls, F. S., Hefferline, R. F., & Goodman, P. (1951). Gestalt therapy: Excitement and growth in the human personality. New York: Julian.
Reich, W. (1968). Character analysis. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Rhyne, J. (1979). Drawings as personal constructs: A study in visual dynamics. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Santa Cruz, University of California.
Samples, R. (1976). Metaphoric mind: A celebration of creative consciousness. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Schneier, S. (1980). Metaphoric mind. Unpublished manuscript. San Francisco.
Sharpe, D. T. (1975). The psychology of color and design. Totowa, NJ: Littlefield-Adams.
Tart, C. (1975). States of consciousness. New York: Dutton.
Valle, R. S. & King, M. (1978). An introduction to existential-phenomenological thought in psychology. In R. S. Valle & M. King (Eds.), Existential-phenomenological alternatives for psychology (pp. 3–17). New York: Oxford University Press.
Van Kaam, A. L. (1959). Phenomenal analysis: Exemplified by a study of the experience of “really feeling understood.” Journal of Individual Psychology 15(1), 66–72.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1989 Plenum Press, New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Schneier, S. (1989). The Imagery in Movement Method. In: Valle, R.S., Halling, S. (eds) Existential-Phenomenological Perspectives in Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6989-3_19
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6989-3_19
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-306-43044-2
Online ISBN: 978-1-4615-6989-3
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive