A Transpersonal Approach to Helping Unknowingly Needy and Worried Well Persons: An Example of In Situ Diagnoses and Follow-Up in the Study of Common Sense and Aberrant Common Sense in Post-World War II Germany

[1] Transpersonal psychology subsumes many areas, although issues pertaining to ‘consciousness’ remain a central theme underlying many studies and reports. Examples include classic studies of consciousness and altered states of consciousness, meditation and mindfulness, shamanism and mind-altering substances, spirituality, and personal transformations. Research on transpersonal methods also is an object of increased attention. Significantly, philosophers and neuroscientists now are making substantial inroads into the biological and molecular basis for consciousness. [2] Philosophy Professor David J. Chalmers suggests that the challenges of consciousness should be dichotomized into “easy problems, ” on the one hand, and the “hard ” or “really hard problem,” on the other hand (1995). According to Chalmers: “The easy problems of consciousness are those that seem directly susceptible to the standard methods of cognitive science, whereby