Abstract
The movement toward Humanistic Education has been trying to replace a previously exclusive attention to things and information with a renewed concern for the human person. Now there is another movement aimed at pushing concerns for the person to their limit, and beyond. This is transpersonal education. The transpersonal educator tries to excite the Child in us, to bring to birth new selves, new possibilities of experience. Through transpersonal education a person becomes aware of the feelings, fantasies and experiences which are our common heritage as human beings and begins to sense the interrelatedness of all things.
The transpersonal approach emphasizes body awareness and sensitivity, the need for teachers to transcend their own ego needs, the appropriateness of myth and symbol as conveyors of intuitive knowledge, a serious approach to the arts, and an attitude toward sciences and object-study which values wonder and increased sensibility. In transpersonal learning one discovers nature's intrapsychic dimensions and the close relationship between self and world. The concerns of transpersonal education are in a sense spiritual, but they are not religious in a sectarian manner. The goal is to guide the individual in his or her exploration of the many realms of experience which transcend ego.
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