Revisioning Transpersonal Theory Quotes

“One needs to be willing to be personally transformed in order ot access and fully understand most spiritual phenomena. The epistemological significance of such personal transformation cannot be emphasized enough, especially given that the positivist denial of such a requisite is clearly one of the main obstacles of the epistemic legitimization of transpersonal and spiritual claims in the modern West. As Evans (1993) points out, one of the main dogmas of skepticism concerning spiritual realities what he calls ‘impersonalism’: ‘the dogmatic rejection of any truth claim that requires personal transformation to be adequately understood and appraised (124).”
― Jorge N. Ferrer, Revisioning Transpersonal Theory : A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality