ON TRANSPERSONAL DEFINITIONS

The founders of transpersonal psychology explicitly advocated that def initions of the field should be open to change as the field evolved. N ew definitions continue to emerge, but many appear to be excessively t heory-laden, i.e., committed to specific theoretical and metaphysical presuppositions. This paper reviews some of these presuppositions and then suggests possible definitions for transpersonal psychology and ot her transpersonal fields.