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  • adjective Transcending or reaching beyond the personal or individual.

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  • adjective psychology That transcends the personal or individual

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trans- +‎ personal

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Examples

  • It is what is called a transpersonal planet, meaning that because of its extremely slow revolution around the Sun about 250 years, it affects whole generations.

    Astrology for Enlightenment Michelle Karén 2008

  • Alexis Masters, lifelong mystic, scholar and kriya yoga practitioner, holds a bachelor of arts in transpersonal psychology from Antioch University, where she also pursued graduate work in feminist theology and comparative religion.

    Alexis Masters biography 2001

  • Pedaya adds that in kabbala, the dybbuk phenomenon is seen as one in which a person's body becomes a channel for another soul - in other words, a transpersonal phenomenon.

    San Francisco Sentinel The San Francisco Sentinel 2010

  • (Part 3 will be posted in the next few weeks) [1] Interestingly, the nature of Brahman is described as transpersonal, personal, and impersonal by different philosophical schools; hence my statement at the very beginning of this essay that Hinduism is less a monolithic religion than a system of varied beliefs and practices based around similar world views and understandings of the universe.

    Unknowing Mind Mike 2010

  • Westerners have also taken concepts from India's ancient scriptures, and used them to go beyond behavioural and humanistic psychology to what is termed 'transpersonal' psychology and 'transpersonal' psychotherapy.

    Immense potential of Indian traditions Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Blue in the spectrum, sometimes called the transpersonal, it’s energy field is the repository of the soul’s enduring memories, influences and progress.

    Holistic Relativity William Harryman 2007

  • Together they make up the Chakra System, part of the etheric body, the subtle extension of the life force into transpersonal space.

    Kelley Harrell: Reality TV: The Root Chakra Darling Kelley Harrell 2011

  • Together they make up the Chakra System, part of the etheric body, the subtle extension of the life force into transpersonal space.

    Kelley Harrell: Reality TV: The Root Chakra Darling Kelley Harrell 2011

  • Together they make up the Chakra System, part of the etheric body, the subtle extension of the life force into transpersonal space.

    Kelley Harrell: Reality TV: The Root Chakra Darling Kelley Harrell 2011

  • Together they make up the Chakra System, part of the etheric body, the subtle extension of the life force into transpersonal space.

    Kelley Harrell: Reality TV: The Root Chakra Darling Kelley Harrell 2011

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