The Holoscendence Approach for psychotherapy and for advancing personal and spiritual growth

Abstract

The Holoscendence Approach (HA) is a therapeutic approach based on experience from clinical work, and an integration of Eastern spiritual traditions and Western therapeutic orientations. It is unique in its comprehensiveness, flexibility and depth. It may be applied to a very wide spectrum of consciousness on both personal and transpersonal levels. HA gives a special opportunity to work simultaneously on the cultivation of high transpersonal states of consciousness and on the development of personal structures, thus enabling more efficient personal development and growth. The main characteristics of HA include communication that is taking place on multiple levels simultaneously. The use of a wide variety of altered states of consciousness contributes to the actualisation of hidden resources. HA may be used as such, or it may be incorporated into other therapeutic methods, adding to them new dimensions and depth. An example of this is the expansion of the Gestalt Approach to the transpersonal level. HA has been used in therapy contexts with definite subjective improvements experienced by individuals suffering from a very wide range of psychopathology, as well as significant increases in the quality of life of healthy individuals.