Psychological Perspectives on Initiation with Andy Hilton

New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast · Mar 13, 2020 · 46m

Andy Hilton is author of Anthropology and Mysticism in the Making of Initiation. He is also coeditor of the anthology, Perspectives on Commoning. Here he illuminates the psychological conversation about initiation with a description of his own initiatory experiences during a nine month period about thirty years ago. He suggests a number of concepts that shed light on such experiences: individuation, passages, liminality, and cosmic consciousness. He describes the lengthy period he spent trying to understand and integrate this experience. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is…