The transmission

The Teachers

1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.

1,020 teachers  ·  42 traditions

Family

52 teachers

William James
Transpersonal Psychology
William James
The will to believe & varieties of religious experience
1842-1910
Théodore Flournoy
Transpersonal Psychology
Théodore Flournoy
Subconscious creative mythmaking (cryptomnesia)
1854-1920
Roberto Assagioli
Transpersonal Psychology
Roberto Assagioli
Psychosynthesis, the higher Self
1888-1974
Fritz Perls
Transpersonal Psychology
Fritz Perls
Here-and-now awareness and contact
1893-1970
Ida Rolf
Transpersonal Psychology
Ida Rolf
A biochemist who taught that realigning the body could realign the self.
1896–1979
Wilhelm Reich
Transpersonal Psychology
Wilhelm Reich
Character armor, orgone body-energy
1897-1957
Owen Barfield
Transpersonal Psychology
Owen Barfield
Evolution of consciousness; participation
1898-1997
Carl Rogers
Transpersonal Psychology
Carl Rogers
The actualizing tendency & unconditional positive regard
1902-1987
Moshé Feldenkrais
Transpersonal Psychology
Moshé Feldenkrais
Awareness through movement
1904-1984
Jean Gebser
Transpersonal Psychology
Jean Gebser
Structures of consciousness; the integral-aperspectival
1905-1973
Viktor Frankl
Transpersonal Psychology
Viktor Frankl
The will to meaning
1905-1997
Transpersonal Psychology
Anthony Sutich
Midwife of the third and fourth forces in psychology
1907-1976
Abraham Maslow
Transpersonal Psychology
Abraham Maslow
Self-actualization & the hierarchy of needs
1908-1970
Rollo May
Transpersonal Psychology
Rollo May
The daimonic and the integration of love and will
1909-1994
Alexander Lowen
Transpersonal Psychology
Alexander Lowen
Charge and discharge of energy through the body
1910-2008
Transpersonal Psychology
Eva Pierrakos
Transformation of the Lower Self
1915-1979
George Leonard
Transpersonal Psychology
George Leonard
A writer and Aikido master who championed mastery as a lifelong path.
1923–2010
Arthur Janov
Transpersonal Psychology
Arthur Janov
Re-feeling repressed primal pain
1924-2017
Transpersonal Psychology
Will Schutz
Made encounter groups and radical honesty synonymous with Esalen.
1925–2002
Eugene T. Gendlin
Transpersonal Psychology
Eugene T. Gendlin
Focusing; the 'felt sense'
1926-2017
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Transpersonal Psychology
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Culture as a reality-shaping cosmic egg
1926-2016
Transpersonal Psychology
Michael Murphy
Esalen, human potential movement
1930-present
Transpersonal Psychology
Richard Price
Co-founded Esalen and made Big Sur a crucible for human potential.
1930–1985
Colin Wilson
Transpersonal Psychology
Colin Wilson
Faculty X and the evolution of consciousness
1931-2013
Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
Transpersonal Psychology
Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
Be here now
1931-2019
Stanislav Grof
Transpersonal Psychology
Stanislav Grof
Non-ordinary states of consciousness & the perinatal/transpersonal psyche
1931-present
Transpersonal Psychology
Walter Pahnke
Psychedelics can occasion genuine mystical experience
1931-1971
Irvin Yalom
Transpersonal Psychology
Irvin Yalom
Confronting death and the givens of existence
1931-present
Claudio Naranjo
Transpersonal Psychology
Claudio Naranjo
Ego fixations and self-observation
1932-2019
Marshall Rosenberg
Transpersonal Psychology
Marshall Rosenberg
Compassionate communication
1934-2015
Transpersonal Psychology
Leonard Orr
Conscious connected breathing to release birth and life trauma
1937-2019
Charles T. Tart
Transpersonal Psychology
Charles T. Tart
States of consciousness, consensus trance
1937-present
Marilyn Ferguson
Transpersonal Psychology
Marilyn Ferguson
The Aquarian Conspiracy: networked personal and social transformation
1938-2008
Transpersonal Psychology
Margaret Paul
Reconnecting wounded self, loving adult, and higher guidance
1939-present
Transpersonal Psychology
Larry Dossey
Nonlocal mind; intercessory prayer
1940-present
Arnold Mindell
Transpersonal Psychology
Arnold Mindell
The dreambody and amplification of signals
1940-2024
Transpersonal Psychology
Peter A. Levine
Somatic Experiencing, trauma in the body
1942-present
Bessel van der Kolk
Transpersonal Psychology
Bessel van der Kolk
The body keeps the score
1943-present
John Welwood
Transpersonal Psychology
John Welwood
Spiritual bypassing
1943-2019
Gabor Maté
Transpersonal Psychology
Gabor Maté
Trauma and suppressed emotion shape addiction and disease
b. 1944
Stephen Porges
Transpersonal Psychology
Stephen Porges
Nervous-system state shapes safety and perception
1945-
Roger Walsh
Transpersonal Psychology
Roger Walsh
Essential practices across the wisdom traditions
1946-present
Francine Shapiro
Transpersonal Psychology
Francine Shapiro
Bilateral stimulation reprocesses traumatic memory
1948-2019
Ken Wilber
Transpersonal Psychology
Ken Wilber
Integral (AQAL) model of consciousness & the spectrum of development
1949-present
Richard C. Schwartz
Transpersonal Psychology
Richard C. Schwartz
Internal Family Systems (IFS); 'parts' and the Self
1949-present
Transpersonal Psychology
Wendy Yellen
Shifting stuck patterns via inner eidetic images
1950-present
Mark Nepo
Transpersonal Psychology
Mark Nepo
To be fully present to the life you already have is itself the awakening.
1951–present
Transpersonal Psychology
David Berceli
TRE — Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises; neurogenic tremors
1953-present
Wim Hof
Transpersonal Psychology
Wim Hof
Breathwork and cold exposure; voluntary autonomic control
1959-present
Transpersonal Psychology
Jorge Ferrer
The participatory turn in spirituality
1968-present
Transpersonal Psychology
Zach Bush
Human health, the soil beneath us, and consciousness itself are one interconnected living system.
c. 1969–present
Transpersonal Psychology
Sondra Ray
Affirmations and breath to dissolve limiting patterns
contemporary