ABSTRACT
The experience of unity with the whole of creation in addition to being closely connected with spiritual and religious traditions, is also an experience that has received considerable attention from a number of psychologists. Some of the first psychologists to look seriously at religious experience were William James and Carl Jung, followed in the 1950s by Abraham Maslow, Roberto Assagioli, and others. Psychotherapy had been preoccupied with treating people with mental or emotional problems. But psychologists such as Maslow turned away from the study of the sick to look at the mentally healthy, and at the exceptionally healthy in particular. An associated area of research, biofeedback, provides an excellent example of a dawning psychotechnology. Astrologers usually take the spring equinox as the beginning of the astrological year, and the position of this equinox in the zodiac determines the characteristic age.
