TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY BUILDS ON THE PIONEERING WORK OF CARL JUNG. IN 1968 HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGIST ABRAHAM MASLOW AND STANISLAV GROF, A CZECHLOSLOVAKIAN PSYCHIATRIST, FOUNDED THE SCHOOL OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY.
THE TRANSPERSONAL MODEL INCLUDES A HOLOGRAPHIC ASPECT, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT OUR CONSCIOUSNESS CONSISTS OF MORE THAN THE PHYSICAL COMPONENTS WITHIN OUR BODY. IT IS DESCRIBED IN ONE UNIVERSITY CATALOG AS DRAWING ON THE "WORLD'S SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS, ALONG WITH MYTHOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ARTS, CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH AND WESTERN PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY ... INTEGRATING SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING AND INSIGHT WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE."