A brief description of the Samkhya view of buman personality is presented to bighlight the power and flexibility of this transpersonal approacb to accountfor a very wide range of psychological phenomena. It is pointed out that the non-emergence of this "wide- band"transpersonal approacb in modern Indian psychology is a bistorical enigma and the likely reasons for this paradox are discussed. Finally the dual epistemic status (descriptions and inferences) of the traditional Indian transpersonal statements is pointed out.
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