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Eric Lindblom

Project Lead

Harvard

(h2o)

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Theorietical

Biography

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Transhumanistic Psychology:

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credit: mysticbourgeoisie

Stanislav Grof

"Maslow and Sutich accepted Grof's suggestion and named the new discipline "transpersonal psychology".

This term replaced their own original name "transhumanistic," or “reaching beyond humanistic concerns.”

STANISLAV GROF, M.D.

http://www.aljardim.com.br/english/transpsycho.htm

Ω "In the past centuries the humanism has developed itself through a great number of confrontations and interactions with other movements. As Harry Kunneman, the present rector of The University for Humanist Studies in Utrecht and one the leading intellectuals of the humanist movement in the Netherlands, has rightly observed this means that in the past humanists were often on the offensive: "As defenders of a universal vision of humanity they waged war against traditionalism and religious dogmatism, in the name of values such as fairness, equality, humanity and unrestricted self-realization.

 In this struggle they had history on their side, the history of western civilization and therefore the history of mankind, too, from the radiant beginning of true humanitas in ancient culture to the prospect of 'prosperity and well-being for all' offered by industrialization, modernization and scientification. The positive self-image of twentieth-century humanism is marked at its most profound by a self-confident modernity, by the proud consciousness of representing the positive, future-orientated power with respect to religion and tradition".[1] At the beginning of the twentieth-first century, according to Kunneman, the roles appear to have been reversed. In the confrontation between humanism and postmodernism, in particular, it is the humanists who have been forced on the defensive. Not accustomed to arguing from a defensive position, humanists often avoid this confrontation by idly dismissing postmodernism as 'unrestrained relativism' or 'pure nihilism'. According to Kunneman this is a less than fruitful strategy, not only because postmodernism voices worthwhile criticism on the close links between technological-scientific rationality and faith in the makeability and controllability of the world and modern humanism, but more particularly because postmodern criticism is based on values which occupy a central role in humanistic tradition - such as self-realization, savoir-vivre and radical self-criticism. In Kunneman's view postmodernism is a radicalized form of humanism, which allows humanists to rethink more radically humanistic notions such as individuality, autonomy and community (76)."