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ARTHUR J. DEIKMAN M.D. (1929-2013) studied physics at Harvard University before training as a psychiatrist, inaugurating a career as a pioneer investigator of mystical states from the 1950s onward. He developed a humane form of psychotherapy for patients with psychosis, and was one of the earliest investigators to discriminate between pathological and genuinely advanced mystical states of consciousness. Dr. Deikman served as a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of San Francisco. Besides the selection of papers published in Meditations on a Blue Vase, he authored The Observing Self: Mysticism and Psychotherapy and The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society. “Arthur Deikman is one of the pioneers of consciousness research and this collection shows the impressive breadth and depth of his many contributions.†— Roger Walsh, M.D., PhD., author of Essential Spirituality “Arthur Deikman’s innovative, scholarly contributions to the study of consciousness are an inspiring repository of wisdom for us all.†— Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., author of Shadows of the Sacred “Arthur had a remarkable ability to envision larger truths. Having known him for nearly fifty years as a superb friend, colleague and author, I view this collection of his papers as a highly valuable expression of his work and character.†— Leighton Whitaker, Ph.D., ABPP “Arthur Deikman is a highly esteemed, much loved, and world-renowned innovator in the field of psychiatric research. This collection is strongly recommended for students, mental health practitioners, and philosophically and spiritually minded readers. They will find an inspiring mentor and teacher as they savor these articles from one of the foremost inquiring spirits of our times.†— Ira Steinman M.D., author of Treating the ‘Untreatable’: Healing in the Realms of Madness “Arthur Deikman led the way in meditation research, helping make such study respectable. He was born with the gift of clarity, and he had an extraordinary instinct for the good. What a friend he was! What a boon to the wide world!†— Michael Murphy, co-founder of the Esalen Institute
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Paperback: 430 pages
Publisher: Fearless Books; 1 edition (March 8, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0988802449
ISBN-13: 978-0988802445
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6 x 1 x 9 inches
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Divided into five over-lapping sections on the humane (and inhumane) treatment of severely compromised psychiatric patients, the active vs. passive ("instrumental" vs. "receptive," "doing" vs. "being") modes of consciousness, early research on mystical experiences, cult dynamics & spiritual materialism, and the "observing self," Meditations is a romp through territory addressed in his previously published books. But save for passages here and there, the territory is greatly expanded for those who've not encountered his journal articles before. And VERY much worth the exploration, as I hope some of the lifts below will indicate."Renunciation is not to be equated with self-denial, self-mortification or asceticism... [it] is not giving up the things of this world; it is accepting that they go away.""Having begun to change the roles of staff from relatively passive onlookers and drug dispensers to active, concerned, and personally caring roles, it was then possible to help patients become active, concerned and personally caring instead of passive, drug-dependent, and powerless objects."[In some meditation cults,] "schizoid withdrawal, grandiosity, vanity, and dependency flourish under the disguise of spiritual practice.""According to [Sufi teacher Idries] Shah, the initial step needed to be taken by most human beings is to become aware of automatic pattern-thinking, the conditioned associations and indoctrinated values that limit human perception and receptivity.""The Four Basic Cult Behaviors: Compliance With the Group... Dependence on a Leader... Discouraging Dissent... Devaluing the Outsider.""By cult, I mean a group headed by a charismatic leader who has spiritual, messianic, or therapeutic pretensions and indoctrinates the followers into an idiosyncratic belief system.""The key activity of modern Western psychotherapy is to enhance the experience of the observing self, discriminating it from the contents of the mind.""...if a person if ready for enlightenment it cannot be withheld; if they are not, it cannot be given.""School continues. More and more the action mode rules the day. With practice and reward it grows in scope until, with symbols ,it creates thought. Abstraction is born. Words seem real. Memory and imagery establish Time, Mine, me, you, I: in that order we learn."It's hard to say how much direct effect Arthur's work had on current day psychotherapeutic practice, but it's easy to see how it could have. The modern mindfulness-meditation-based psychotherapies like MBSR, MBCT, DBT and ACT are all built on principles Deikman developed as far back as the late 1960s. He was at least on a par with the best of the existentialists and gestaltists of that era (e.g.: Fritz Perls, R. D. Laing, Alan Watts, Richard Alpert), but his observations here (and elsewhere) seem to be comparatively free of the "mystical woo woo" and more directly antecedent to modern day practice. For me, "The Missing Center" was worth twenty bucks all by itself.
I just finished reading Meditations on a Blue Vase and I have to say it is one of the best books I have ever read on the subject of meditation and spiritual development. The author really makes it clear what spiritual development is and what it is not. He does an excellent job of distinguishing spiritual development from the pursuit of our selfish personal goals. The level of clarity in this book was unbelievable. The section on recognizing cults and questionable spiritual leaders was pure gold. I marveled at how the author exposes cult like behavior in everyday institutions such as corporations and organized religion. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in beginning a spiritual discipline.
Excellent review of how to become as knowledgeable as the author, by changing oneself through ancient techniques known in the Sufi tradition as expounded by Idries Shah (as opposed to some New Age or other mumbo-jumbo presentations of self development).Read the eminent psychologist Ivan Tyrrell's Listening to Idries Shah.
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I have not read this book, but I have read several of its original contributions at source and they have long influenced my work and writing. In fact, I found out that Deikman has published this collection of his papers only today when checking out references for something I'm writing for a forthcoming volume from Green Books on "spiritual activism". I would like to honour Arthur Deikman's contribution to transpersonal psychology and perhaps the best way I can do so is to quote, below, what I drafted about his work this very morning..... It is one thing to create analogies of reducing valves or apertures of consciousness, but is there any evidence? One source, as we saw earlier, is the study of spiritual experiences. Many who have had mystical, “peak†or other such ways of describing transpersonal experience describe seeing the world in terms of “freshnessâ€, “with new eyes†or being “born againâ€. As we quoted George Fox in Chapter Two, “Everything was new. And the whole creation gave off another smell to what I knew before…â€Another evidential source is experiment. A celebrated example is the set of experimental meditation studies conducted by the clinical psychiatrist, Arthur Deikman. Deikman built on studies that suggest that the brain sustains efficient housekeeping by rendering certain perceptual and cognitive processes automatised. Because human consciousness can’t be everywhere at once they drop, once learned, below the threshold of consciousness. For instance, when learning to ride a bike consciousness will fixate on every motion. Once the skill is established such detail of awareness drops into the unconscious and cycling becomes “automatisedâ€. This frees consciousness to be present, instead, to the birds, the bees and the view.Deikman wanted to see if perception and cognition that had become automatised could be deautomatised. He invited subjects to meditate intensely on a beautiful blue vase. Afterwards, people reported their subjective sense of what shifted. For example, the blue was described as becoming not just blue, but very blue. After all, why should there be qualitative limit on “bluenessâ€? The meditators also reported shifts in their sense of the vase’s shape and in the passage of time during the exercise.These effects seem consistent with automatised structures becoming deautomatised and perception and cognition shifting, as it were, to a more primal level. It was as if concentrating on the vase allowed it to become more real. As William Blake wrote: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite: for man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.†In Deikman’s opinion this is probably what happens in mystical experience.At one level this is all common sense. At another, it gives powerful insight into why “presence†matters and its implications for activism. Automatisation of values and how other people or nature are viewed might shed light on Mark Twain’s disturbing remark that “familiarity breeds contempt.†The soldier quoted above who said that after a while you get used to the blood and gore of killing – “you don’t see it, you don’t smell it, you don’t feel it†– is describes a grotesque deautomatisation. What could be the antidote? Deikman’s work would suggest spirituality, and it is interesting that the word “worship†comes from the Old English, weorðscipe in West Saxon meaning worth-ship. A lovely one of Deikman’s collected papers is about “Service as a Way of Knowingâ€. That’s the name of the game. To give worth that restores the ship of life to worth.
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