Transpersonal Ontology

Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being (from the Greek ὄν, genitive ὄντος: "of that which is", and -λογία, -logia: science, study, theory). In addition it is the study of existence or reality, and basic categories of being. Ontology is also defined as the inquiry into being in so much as it is being, or into that which has distinct existence, particular properties belonging to things or categories. Psychologically this relates to the study of categories of being or states of being.
States of consciousness do not just change how we think about things, but how we experience our world. In other words, our state of being is changed, our world is different, and our existence (what Heidegger named Dasein) is also different.
Transpersonal Psychology is a form of psychology (often referred to ...

While working as a Spiritual Coach, I made an interesting discovery… that an individual’s spiritual gifts (or psychic abilities) was often tied to their dominant sense.

According to science, we have five known senses: hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling and tasting. In humans, only the first three are normally dominant. Their NLP labels are: auditory, visual and kinesthetic. NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming, has performed clinical research on sense-use by humans and the results are very interesting. (The technical term used by NLP to describe the dominant sense is “NLP Predicates”.)

What do we mean by dominant sense? Our dominant sense is the sense that we trust the most. Its use is so innate that we are often not even consciously aware of it and it becomes an integral part of our survival mechanisms. As small children, we learn to favor one sense over another and eventually one becomes our dominant sense. The selection process largely depends upon environmental conditions, like our family, our schooling, ...