THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF ARTHUR J. DEIKMAN
meditations on a blue vase
and the foundations of transpersonal psychology

This is a landmark collection of papers and articles by the late Arthur Deikman M.D., a pioneering psychiatrist who conducted some of the earliest studies of meditation and challenged the medical establishment's reliance on drug treatment for people diagnosed with depression, psychosis, and schizophrenia.

Published March 2014 (Fearless Press)

Available at Amazon
www.amazon.com/Meditations-Blue-Vase/dp/0988802449

Welcome! You will find here articles and books offering a way of understanding the mystical traditions and the mystical experience without reducing them to neurophysiological artifacts. For the past thirty years, I have been conducting research on meditation, altered states of consciousness, mystical traditions, and cult behavior with the goal of integrating mystical and scientific knowledge. Issues of motivation, selective perception, and developmental psychology are critical elements in that integration. The model I have developed also permits an understanding of cult behavior as it occurs to frequently in spiritual groups, but also in the organizations that comprise ordinary society. Most recently, I have been doing research on service as providing a way of knowing the connectedness that underlies reality--the basis for spiritual experience.

I invite you to browse the various articles I have listed. Some you can download, others you may need to obtain from interlibrary loan. Books can be sampled here and then ordered if you are interested. Your feedback is welcome.