NOTE: This article was published in the International Cultic Studies Association e-Newsletter in 2005: Vol. 4, Issue No. 2: http://www.icsahome.com/articles/on-avatar-benjamin-en4
On Avatar
by Elliot Benjamin, Ph.D.
I first became introduced to Avatar, Harry Palmer’s new age spiritual, philosophical, and psychological organization founded in 1986, at an evening workshop at a metaphysical bookstore in Bangor, Maine in the summer of 1997. There were only 3 people (including myself) attending this event, and one of the people described what he heard…..
NOTE: This article was published in the Journal of Public Mental Health in 2014,
Volume 13: Issue Number 3, pp. 142 – 145 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/co.1108/JPMH-11-2013-0012
The Creative Artist Support Group: A Case Study
byElliot Benjamin, Ph.D. November, 2013
Introduction
For the past few years I have periodically facilitated monthly meetings of a creative artists support group in my small town Belfast, Maine community. The number of people attending my meetings has always been small, ranging between two…..
NOTE: This article was published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology in 2011,
Volume 51: Issue No. 1: pp. 82 – 111 http://jhp.sagepub.com/content/51/1/82
Humanistic
Psychology and the
Mental Health Worker
Elliot Benjamin
Abstract
This article discusses the precarious relationship of humanistic psychology
to the mental health worker in our current managed care, empirically based,
behaviorally focused, excessively medication-oriented mental health system.
Some of the challenges,…..
NOTE: This article was published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology in 2008:
Vol. 48: Issue No. 1; pp. 61-88: http://jhp.sagepub.com/content/48/1/61
Summary
This article presents a psychological study of the “successful
creative artist” and the relationship between art and mental disturbance.
To elaborate, this article emphasizes what the author considers
to be “natural” (i.e., self-motivated) creative self-expression in
comparison to “normal” (i.e., socially approved) patterns of behavior.
Although what is natural may overlap…..
NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2014: http://integralworld.net/benjamin64.html
Sometimes I wonder if I lack a gene, or perhaps have an extra gene, that makes me “different” from other people. I never learned how to make chit-chat small talk, I never got the hang of picking up girls at bars, and parties where you just go around and get into conversations with everybody were always very uncomfortable for me. In a similar way, I wonder…..
NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2006: http://integralworld.net/benjamin7.html
Integral Philosophy has been extensively formulated by Ken Wilber, from his four quadrants to his eight zones, including a multitude of lines, levels, types, etc. [1]. However, there is also an openness to alternative views of what “integral” may mean, through the dedicated overseeing of the Integral World website by Frank Visser [2]. In this essay I would like to formulate what my own conception of…..
NOTE: This article was published in Paranthropology Journal in 2015. To obtain the article from the Paranthopology website, contact Elliot Benjamin at ben496@prexar.com A shortened version of this article is available on the Integral World website: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin74.html
Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal
Vol. 6 No. 2 50
Experiential Skepticism and an Exploration of
Mediumship and Life After Death
Elliot Benjamin
Abstract
This article describes a “researcher-based experiential research” approach to…..
NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2010: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin24.html
Synchronicity can be thought of simply as “meaningful coincidence” (Jung, 1955). However, more involved definitions of synchronicity are readily available in the literature. For example, Braud and Anderson (1998) defined synchronicity as “a subjectively significant coincidence between an inner state, usually of need, and an unaccountable outer event that corresponds to and/or answers the need.” (p. 143). Irwin and Watt (2007, pp. 132-133) discussed synchronicity in…..
NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2006: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin.html
There have been a number of people who have expressed serious concerns and misgivings regarding the cult dangers of philosopher Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute (c.f. [1]). These criticisms have generally focused upon Wilber’s harsh comments regarding scholars who disagree with his philosophical opinions. This has become increasingly more evident with the development of the Integral Institute website and especially Ken Wilber’s private website (c.f. [1], [2]),…..
NOTE: This article was published on the Integral World website in 2015: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin75.html
I think both Frank Visser and David Lane have given stimulating, fair, and balanced perspectives on Andrew Cohen’s recent “apology” [1]. One can see from the comments to both Visser and Lane’s essays the divided responses of Cohen’s ex-students in regard to their feelings of whether Cohen was being truly sincere in his apology, or rather manipulative to rebrand himself as a more “user-friendly”…..
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