Michael Washburn

Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

This book maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence.

A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development

The Ego and the Dynamic Ground

Mary K. Ryan

Michaela Mullin

Matthew VanMeter

Joshua Amses

Nikole Hanh

Seema Shakti

Movement composes the day-to-day and mundane to the extra-ordinary internal forests of our bodies. nomadic sojourns journal takes the creative leap to explore such movement(s) through the lens' of a number of different fields and mediums. This year's topics: the Zhiguli, love, life, and mishaps along the way, art, political movements (or the lack thereof), cockroaches and office life, drag racing, Shakti, and reparations for slavery.

nomadic sojourns journal, volume 2

Presents an account of human development from a depth-psychological, transpersonal perspective.

Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World

How often, upon hearing about people who have had regrettable experiences or have lost their lives, we wish they had followed advice received early in life about not talking to strangers. But there are strangers we would be better off knowing, and it is hard to imagine a functioning society comprised of elementary particles (to allude to the title of one of French author Michel Houllebecq's great novels) existing in perfect isolation and never interacting at all. The interplay of strangers has inspired storytellers of all epochs in every corner of the planet. The encounters in the short stories in Michael Washburn's latest collection take place at the fault lines of a violent and unstable society. In these tales, fugitives, drifters, misfits, and outcasts meet in locales as varied as hotels, bars, galleries, lecture halls, parks, pastures, beaches, and battlefields, but tension arises almost invariably from the interplay of sinister intelligences that rightly distrust one another. Marking all the stories in this collection are the suspense, originality, vividness, wit, and dark humor for which the author is known. Michael Washburn is a Brooklyn-based writer and journalist. His short fiction has appeared recently in Concho River Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Rosebud, Weirdbook, Serial, The Tishman Review, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, and other publications. Michael's story "Confessions of a Spook" won Causeway Lit's 2018 fiction contest. Two other collections, The Uprooted and Other Stories (2018) and When We're Grownups (2019), are available from Adelaide Books.

Short Stories

Stranger, Stranger

In this book, Michael Washburn provides a psychoanalytic foundation for transpersonal psychology. Using psychoanalytic theory, Washburn explains how ego development both prepares for and creates obstacles to ego transcendence. Spiritual development, he proposes, can be properly understood only in terms of the ego development that precedes it. For example, many difficulties encountered in spiritual development can be traced to repressive underpinnings of ego development, and significant gender differences in spiritual development can be traced to corresponding gender differences that emerge during ego development. Washburn draws on a wide range of psychoanalytic perspectives in discussing ego development and uses both Eastern and Western sources in discussing spiritual development. In rethinking transpersonal psychology in psychoanalytic terms, he explains how essential elements of Jungian thought can be grounded in psychoanalytic theory.

Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective

Perhaps every adult experiences a moment when the gulf between childhood dreams and present reality is glaringly evident. No less a writer than Turgenev captured the anguish of having to ask what we could have done with all the time that a human life encompasses. But then again, those childhood dreams hardly reflected our mature judgment. Imagine if we could step outside of time and look at the present moment with both idealism and wisdom. The reality might be shocking and horrifying, but it could still make a pretty good story. On the heels of his brilliant collection of short fiction, The Uprooted and Other Stories (2018), Michael Washburn's new collection presents a vision that is hilarious and dark, bracing and terrifying. The daring, the adventurous, the hopeless, and the outcast people these tales. Here are failed geniuses and misanthropic extroverts. Here are individuals poised at a moment of desperate and exhilarating uncertainty. These are stories to which you will return again and again, even and especially when there are more important things you should be doing. You hold in your hands the latest offering of short stories from a unique American voice. Michael Washburn is a Brooklyn-based writer and journalist. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and magazines including Green Hills Literary Lantern, Rosebud, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Weird Fiction Review, New Orphic Review, Stand, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Lakeview Journal, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Bryant Literary Journal, Meat for Tea, Marathon Literary Review, Prick of the Spindle, and other publications. Michael is the author of an acclaimed cover story in the Philadelphia City Paper, entitled "Home and Abroad." He is the author of a previous short fiction collection, Scenes fromthe Catastrophe (2016).

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