Transforming Torture
By Arya Maloney - Oct 15, 2009
“Will you forgive me for making literal an experience that seems? more real than life, less possible than death? There is no place to put it, no way to hold it, nothing to know it with And yet it belongs, it stays, and it begs consciousness...”
The uninvited guest
By Arya Maloney - Oct 15, 2009
I first met Bob at a gathering of friends. He appeared quiet, introspective and somewhat shy. However, we quickly cut through the small-talk and anxiety of first meetings to a deep discussion of awareness and self-observation. As I listened, I thought, ‘He must practice Buddhist mindfulness’. But no, he neither followed a spiritual path, nor was he engaged in psychotherapy. He was a musician. Later that evening I heard him play the trombone and recognized a seasoned jazzman.
The suffocated soul
By Arya Maloney - Jul 15, 2009
9:15pm, August 12, 2000. The phone rings. I know instantly that it is the call I have been expecting for three days. I hear Steven’s voice,
The process of integral psychology
By Arya Maloney - Jul 15, 2009
The following four stories illustrate the practice of gaining awareness of the full spectrum of consciousness in the healing process. In these stories, — birth, death, spiritual emergency, transforming trauma and contact with the transpersonal have become vehicles of conscious evolution that cross traditional and developmental boundaries. Each story reveals a personal process which unfolds in a new awareness of creative possibilities — an awareness accessible to all human beings.
Spontaneity of soul: an autobiographical glimpse
By Arya Maloney - Jan 15, 2010
This is the last in the series of Dr. Arya Maloney's chapters on Alchemy of the Soul. It describes the author's own struggle in life and the role of the soul in it.