The written works of Olga Louchakova
Papers on the nature of consciousness and spiritual practice
Olga Louchakovaâs papers (after 1994)

This page includes all of my published and unpublished papers, listed in reverse chronological order by the date of writing. Before 1994, I wrote mainly on neuroimmunological topics, which seem to be too specialized to post here.

2004

The Essence of the Prayer of the Heart
Unpublished.

Frontiers in Spiritual Awakening: Transformations of the Self
Handout for the colloquium at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, February 26, 2004.

Non-Dual Self in Cultural Contexts: Is Awareness Same Wherever We Go?
Unpublished.

Ontopoiesis and Unity in the Prayer of the Heart: Contributions to Psychotherapy and Learning
Handout the Third World Congress of Phenomenology, Oxford August 2004.

On Advantages of the Clear Mind: Spiritual Practices in the Training of a Phenomenological Researcher
The Humanistic Psychologist, 2004, forthcoming.

Shakti-Yoga Verbatim. Course Guide and Reader in Spiritual Practices.
Unpublished manuscript.

Prayer of the Heart as the Essential Activity of the Self: A Cross-Disciplinary Enquiry
Unpublished.

Towards the Comparative History of Esotericism: Tantrik States of Consciousness in the West
Unpublished.

2003

Via Kundalini: Intentionality of Consciousness According to Shakta-Vedanta
In Toward a Science of Consciousness 2004, Consciousness Research Abstracts, Tucson AZ, April 7-11, 2004, [220], p. 88

Phenomenological architecture of self-awareness: Applications in Education and Transpersonal psychotherapy

Handout at the Transpersonal Psychology 2004 Conference of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA, February 15, 2003.

Character Transformation in Spiritual Emergence: Alternative Clinical Interventions (w/visual presentation)
Presented at the Transpersonal Psychology 2004 Conference of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA, February 15, 2003

Psychospiritual Development through the Life-Span
Presented at the 111th annual American Psychological Association Convention, Toronto, Canada, 2003, August 7-10.

2002

Via Kundalini: Psychosomatic Excursions in Transpersonal Psychology
(With Arielle Warner). The Humanistic Psychologist, 31( 2-3), 115-158, 2003.

Evolution of Consciousness in Responses to Terrorist Attacks: Towards a Transpersonal Theory of Cultural Transformation
(With Kathleen Wall). The Humanistic Psychologist, 30(3), 252-273.

Psychospiritual Practices from the Prayer of the Heart in Monitoring the Cardiovascular Disorders: a Case Study
Presented at the bi-annual ãSpirituality & Health-careä conference at the University of Toronto, Canada, October, 2002.

Neuroimmunology and Kundalini Yoga: a Comparative Study Towards Direct Knowing
(With Arielle Warner). Presented at the bi-annual ãSpirituality & Health-careä conference at the University of Toronto, Canada, October, 2002.

2001

Words From the Soul. Time, East/West Spirituality and Psychotherapeutic Narrative.
By Stuart Sovatsky. [Review of the book]. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 33(1), 74-76.

2000

Icons: Windows to the Divine.
(With Ken Johnson) The Quest, 88(2), 44-50.

1994

The Unknown Russian Mysticism: Pagan Sorcery, Christian Yoga, and other Esoteric Practices in the Former Soviet Union.
(With Igor Koungourtsev) In T. R. Soidla and S. I. Shapiro(Ed.), Voices of Russian Transpersonalism (pp. 7-15). Brisbane, Australia: Bolda-Lok Publishing and Educational Enterprises; also in Gnosis, 1994, 32, 20-27.

Earth and Spirit
(With Igor Koungourtsev) Gnosis, 33, 14-21.
Papers:

On Consciousness and Kundalini Theory

On the Phenomenological Method

On the Self

On the Prayer of the
Heart


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